15 Complete Pregnancy Travelling Tips to Keep in Mind

Pregnancy is a journey in itself for every woman when those nine months are full of excitement and experiences which are no less than any travelling excitement and adventure. Moreover, low risk pregnancies are good to go for any vacation or holidays using safe travel strategies because your baby is not going to be as co-operative as she is now being inside your womb.

Whether you going on a babymoon to a beach or visiting your relatives on holidays or even staycation in a villa resort outside your city, travelling during pregnancy can be a real challenge than travelling before the bump. From getting nauseated feeling to using restrooms twice in thirty minutes or even anxiety of getting into early labor, it’s wise to preplan your trip with all necessary emergency needs to help the “soon-to-be-mom” to relax keeping her safe and comfortable.

Here are the complete pregnancy travelling tips to make your woman’s trip memorable yet safe and comfortable.

1. Proper Timing

Planning your trip during your pregnancy needs perfect timing and can be sport spoiling if not planned sensibly. The first trimester is usually full of nausea, dizziness and fatigue, hence it’s not a perfect time for travelling or vacation and similarly the third trimester is usually uncomfortable as she gets bigger in size, which is why the second trimester is quite easy for moms-to-be as all the pregnancy early symptoms disappear at this point and the bump is still growing making it quite comfortable for pregnant women to hit the road for one last time before the baby arrives.

2. Pregnancy norms with airline or railways

Before booking your tickets and packing your favorite shades and shoes, it’s advisable to talk to your airlines or railways whatever is your mode of travel, it’s better to know the special rules and guidelines for pregnant ladies and now when the world has been hit by a pandemic, there are even more strict rules and norms regarding travelling and that even in pregnancy. Whether, it’s allowed to travel in 32 weeks of pregnancy or not, or what risks we have to carry while travelling while pregnant, or she needs to be vaccinated for specific virus and flu such as Covid-19 or Zika Virus or if you need a doctor’s signed note for fir to fly or travel because the restrictions vary among different carriers in domestic and international travel which is a very essential pregnancy travelling tip to keep in mind.

3. Wise destination

When you’re pregnant and planning on a trip, it’s important to choose your destination wisely to be sure if the destination is as safe as possible. Checking the climate, the virus and flu outbreak information, good air quality, safer roads or the amount of risk of foodborne diseases is very important and even checking it with your doctor to ensure the safety of the pregnant woman and her baby. Another most important tip is to avoid travelling countries where travel vaccinations are required during pregnancy. All these details about the destination is important to keep in mind before packing your bags.

4. Keep pregnancy medical records handy

Keeping your medical records updated and handy is important for emergency responding to know about your medical conditions including allergies. Because when the patient or pregnant woman can’t speak for herself due to any incident or even accident, her updated medical records would help the frontline doctors or responders to save her life without opting any unintentional wrong medication.

5. Carry enough snacks and fluids

Another pregnancy travelling tip is carrying enough snacks and fluids can be very beneficial while you’re travelling being pregnant, because you might not be able to get food everywhere, for example if you’re on a road trip you might not be able to find a restaurant or a hotel to have your meals. And when you’re pregnant, hunger can strike you anytime and staying hydrated is very important. Hence, carrying extra snacks and water can be beneficial to keep you stay relaxed and calm.

6. Go light with your baggage

Pregnancy along with travelling can be very tiring and exhausting. That even carrying a small extra sling bag can kill your backbones mercilessly. While planning on a trip, make sure to avoid unnecessary and extra luggage that you know you might not need anyway but still willing to take chance. Going light on baggage not only helps you stay relaxed, calm while travelling but also helps the person who is travelling with the pregnant lady be it spouse or friend or family who is in charge of dragging those luggage suitcases all along the way.

7. Research hospitals in your destination

Before you hit the destination with all your excitement and enthusiasm, it’s better to do some research about the hospitals and the medical facilities available in your destination, so that in any kind of medical emergencies you don’t have to hustle or hurry in searching the helpline numbers and getting nervous while hospital admissions and paperwork.

8. Move yourself often

Long hours of travelling can be very tiresome and uncomfortable especially when you’re pregnant with your second trimester. Your legs get easily swollen and there are higher chances of blood clotting due to prolonged sitting. Hence moving and stretching is recommended for pregnant women while travelling to ease their discomfort and keep them relaxed. If you’re on a road trip, you should take a break and take a quick walk to stretch your legs and move your body for better blood circulation.

9. Keep some time with you

Pregnancy can make things a little slow than usual. You walk slow, sit slowly even getting to the restroom you take a good amount of time to finish your job, hence keeping time handy is very important to avoid security hassles and travelling emergencies. Staying ahead of time is important for pregnant ladies and people with them to stay relaxed and calm for a happy and stress-free trip.

10. Dress proactively

Pregnancy can be real uncomfortable and uneasy in term of clothing and travelling. When you know while travelling, squeezed places are gonna be with you most of the time, and the comfort of your home will be nowhere. Hence, dressing sensibly and proactively is one of the most important pregnancy travelling tip you can use for yourself. Dressing in layers will help you regulate your body according to the temperature of the environment. If you feeling chilly you can have your layers and when you feel a little sweaty and hot you can take out one or two of your layers to help you feel relaxed and ventilated. Even wearing socks can also help avoiding blood clots and inflammation in your legs while travelling. Wearing your masks and face shields are mandatory while travelling hence to dressing light and sensibly can be a trick to ease your trip.

11. Bring sanitizing wipes and liquid with yourself

This current global pandemic situation has raised an alert for every traveler even every single person all around the globe. Staying clean and sanitized is very essential while you travel. Keeping sanitizing wipes and even sanitizers can be very helpful for quick sanitization wherever you need it or you think you must not take a chance.

12. Take breaks frequently

While travelling, many pregnant women get travelling sickness or even get exhausted easily due to compressed and squeezed space around them. Hence taking frequent breaks helps you stay active and relaxed to avoid any kind of sickness symptoms such as nausea, dizziness, headache.

13. Keep your own travel medical kit

A medical kit is must when you’re travelling being pregnant. All your essential medications even a band-aid needs to be by your side. If you’re allergic to dust or your daily vitamins, calcium and iron pills all has to be present in your medical kit to keep you safe and emergency ready. You never know, hospitals and medical facilities might not be present at any moment when you actually need them.

14. Choose fun activities wisely

Travelling and vacation means relaxing and having fun but that doesn’t mean you crazily get yourself involved in risky fun activities when you’re carrying a baby. Activities such as trekking, bungee jumping, skiing, paragliding are quite dangerous and absolutely not recommended when you’re pregnant. However, lake boating with safety precautions, walking on the lawn or on the beach, fish pedicure or any activities with no pressure and effort are totally allowed on your fun trip.

15. Get travel insurance

Buying a travel insurance is important when you know your medical insurance doesn’t cover travelling health emergencies. Getting your trip travel medical coverage to cover the medical expenses for any emergency pregnancy complication hospitalization and expensed related to it. For example due to excessive nausea dehydration occurs she might need emergency hospitalization for treatment in the foreign medical facility, hence all her medical costs would be covered because her condition is due to pregnancy complication. But make sure, your travel insurance covers or states about medical expenses of pregnancy complications.

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