Crazy to book 13.5hr flight to Japan in 2nd trimester??

[JuniperGem]

DH and I have booked an exciting and packed trip to Japan (also very expensive) for Spring 2024 but I want to start TTC this month... is that crazy??

We have felt ready to ttc for a while but been travelling a lot this year, checking some bucket list places off first. The only reason to wait is this one final big trip next year, and I feel like I'm "on hold" for it as much as I'm excited to go, I'm impatient to start our next chapter as parents (god willing).

but if it were to work first time (we are both 29, both healthy) then the trip would be right at the start of my 2nd trimester with a 13.5 direct flight each way and lots of busy activities planned when we are there.

Should I just be patent and wait until after we get back to TTC? Or would it be fine to do a big trip during 2nd tri?

I'd say definitely don't hold off, you never know what will happen. I'd held off for so many reasons and lots of things didn't go as expected!

This is false logic. It doesn’t matter a jot that she has no idea if she will conceive easily or not. What is significant is that we are talking about waiting for a mere 4 months at age 29 to start TTC, in order to accommodate a trip that is booked, paid for and expensive. In other words, she is asking whether the risk of being pregnant while on the holiday is worth taking, balanced against all the other factors in her future plans.

Let’s say OP waits till after the trip, then it takes much longer than she expected to fall pregnant. There is absolutely no way that the 4 month wait will have caused the fertility issue, such that she would have conceived earlier had it not been for waiting 4 extra months to start TTC. Medical research and data analysis can tell us about trends and average conception rates at any given age, but it the human body is not a machine with a precise timer in it. Focusing in 4 months as if it is medically or statistically significant is needlessly alarmist.

Nowhere has she suggested that she postpone any trips while she TTC. Her question is the opposite- should she postpone TTC to go on the trip? And given your answer about avoiding getting herself into a position where she is travelling with morning sickness, your answer seems to be yes.