Baby #2 is coming! Believe it or not (that’s me talking to myself) in just a few short weeks, we will be welcoming our second little adventurer into the world. He or she has already been coming along on quite a few journeys, and has probably logged more miles than Bergen (now 3 years old) when I was pregnant with him. We believe in the importance of traveling as a family, and more than ever we felt it was essential to build that bond as a family of 3 before adding another member.
I flew several times during the pregnancy, but it was on our last trip, a week in Oahu at about 28 weeks, that I really took notice and reflected on some best practices for air travel while pregnant. Considering that I’ve had more discomfort during this pregnancy, I was somewhat anxious for how this last set of flights would go. Not worried enough, of course to be alarmed or call anything off, but cautious.
In the end, I didn’t have much to worry about as the flights to and from Oahu went smoothly. With a few implementations and considerations, I was comfortable, and the experience wasn’t too far from flying without a mini “passenger”: