Flying during 1st trimester

[simonjhardy]

Hi Folks,

Seem to be finding conflicting advice around flying during the early stages of pregnancy.

Me and the GF are away for a couple of weekends shortly (Dublin this weekend and then Amsterdam a few weekends after that).

She'll be 8 weeks for the first trip then 11 weeks for the latter.

Just wondering if there was any danger of taking these 2 short flights in this 1st trimester?

*Foot note...
Don't worry about Amsterdam, since we found out we were pregnant, we're only going to partake in admiring the architecture now!!

I flew to Greece at 7 weeks and a scan at 8 weeks 5 days showed all was fine.

Lots of water on the plane and moving about. Travel sickness bands helped with nausea! Have fun!

I flew under 12 weeks and baby is now 29 weeks and healthy. Should be fine. Take sick bags!

I flew to Belfast at 8 weeks and flew again at 20 weeks all fine.

Midwife will recommend flight socks but my non-medically trained opinion is that any pregnant woman goes to the loo that often that there's no time for DVP to develop.

Cheers for the advice and thoughts!

Flew to Antigua in 1st tri & Australia in 2nd. Both totally fine. Not at all fun in 1st tri with morning sickness but doable.

I flew to New York in the 1st tri, make sure she has plenty of water and snacks to keep her going, when I got hungry I felt terribly sick, grazing seemed to help. Apart from that all was fine :)