Advice please?!

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I'm due to have my implant out next month (September) and we are due to go on holiday to Cyprus in August 2013. What is a safe age for a new born to fly. In at a cross roads..... Do I get my implant out and hope we get pregnant straight away or do I get another one put in and try middle of next year so I go away pregnant. My DS is 3yr (4 in July) out plan was to try now ish. Can I have some help and guidance please??
From a very confused mummy! Xx

I tried to get a definitive answer to this, as I'm planning to fly to west coast of US next June when my baby, if all goes well, will be just under 3 mnths old. Some friends recently flied to Australia with their 4 month old (first baby) and seemed to survive.

From what I looked up, it seems you can fly with an incredibly young infant (a week old, I think I read). My parents took me on a transatlantic flight when I was 6 weeks old. And I'd just recovered from pneumonia. were they thinking?? But that was the mid-70s.

I think it's more to do with when you feel you are up to it and are confident managing all the logistics of airports and travel with an infant. I guess in your case the greater issue, potentially, is that you don't get pregnant straight away and your baby is either potentially very new, or you're heavily pregnant, in August next year. I was in a similar position and hadn't conceived in June then we would have waited to try again until Jan as we've got two trips on the cards in June and August next year and I didn't want to be too pregnant to fly (or have a 3 week old baby) for either of them.

flied?!?! What the...? flew

I have had friends fly with a 2 week old. I'm not sure there's a lower age limit, though of course having paperwork/travel docs for a newborn is tricky (our friends live abroad and wanted to have their baby over here)

I think you should go for it, don't plan around the holiday, if the dates become a problem, deal with it when/if it happens. It would make a big difference to the age gap between your children which is going to affect your lives more in the long term.
You can fly with a very new baby providing you and baby have no medical issues. You can't fly after 36 weeks of pregnancy or after erm.. 30? weeks without a doctor's letter saying you are fit to fly, if you have medical issues at any point (including postnatal) you might not want to fly or be advised not to by dr. I've flown with a 3-month old and also at 7 months pregnant, both fine apart from restless leg syndrome maded longhaul very uncomfortable when pregnant.
Hope that helps!

Is there any way to unbook the holiday? Seems daft to plan your family's future around a holiday! I think you would feel a lot better cancelling the holiday, then waiting to see where you are closer to the time. If you have a little one, you can still go on holiday provided all's well, and if you are not pregnant ditto. If you are heavily pregnant or have literally just given birth you may well not want to go.

Surely if you cancel now you won't lose too much money? Then just get a last minute deal next year if you can make it.