Hello,
do i have to inform insurance company before we book?
We called just to double check. They said it was fine until 28 weeks.
do i need 'permission' from doctor then? or is that only flying much later?
My experience has been you only really need it from 28 weeks but I got one anyway just to be safe (I look further along then I am). Just make sure, whatever it says, it says "FIT TO FLY"
anybody else flown at this time and how did you feel?
Yes, I posted the following on another thread. Not to put you off, but just to give you an honest experience. Still glad I went...BUT! It was tough.
I would be wary of traveling anywhere.... i just did and it didn't work out so great.
We left for America (home for me) when i was 20 weeks and returned when I was 23. Because it was long haul I was on Heprin and low dose aspirin (and flight socks and loads of water etc) for the flights and there was a terrific nose bleed at 30,000 feet!
Whilst we were there I was fine. But I picked something up on the way back. We got back on a Friday and I felt very odd. I figured between heprin shots, travel, jet lag and pregnancy this was to be expeceted. But that weekend I kept feeling weird, really weird. Even just sitting down I would come over incredibly dizzy like I was going to pass out. All I want to do was sleep. I headed back into work on the Monday and by 10 am was screaming for someone to come and pick me up off the bathroom floor. The feeling dizzy was quickly progressing to-unless-i-am-lying-down-I?m-going-to-faint. So I popped up to the doctors. My blood pressure had risen from its always 110/70 to 120/90 with a resting heart rate of 128!! They asked me to wee in the pot (getting to be a difficult thing to do- cant see what I?m doing!) and as soon as I saw it I knew something was wrong. Everything under the sun was in it. Blood work came back saying low sodium (?) and infection. So I got signed off work, put on antibiotics and told to rest. The infection cleared in time but it was a good 3 weeks before I had any energy.
I had already agreed with my employer I would finish work at 32 weeks and seeing as the doctors felt I wouldn't be well enough to work until 28/29 weeks I ended up just resigning. I worked for an extremely small company and felt having them arrange cover for a month for me to possibly be well enough to come back for a month when I was leaving to take care of baby full time wasn't fair to them. To be honest although i feel much better, I'm not sure I could really cope with being back.
I suppose you could argue I could have gotten sick anywhere but, I think being exposed to so many germs on flights etc and just the stress of travel was just a bit much for me body to cope with.
Hopefully things would go better for you!
x