Driving with a bun in the oven

Having seen this 12 times now, I reckon that if you look after yourself and don't do anything too extreme you'll be right. As someone else said, the doctors know and you should listen to them. But my observation watching things over the years is that my wife knows more about her body than the doctors do, and she always did what she felt she could cope with and had no problems. I have learned to trust her judgment in these things.

So I reckon follow your own judgment, listen to your own body, and go and enjoy yourself with your family.

Willem

As others have said listen to the doctor, but you know your body better than anyone else. If you have had a "normal" pregnancy go for it.
Travelling pregnant is a lot of fun everyone always want to talk to you. The wife and I did a 6000km holiday when she was 6.5 months when we returned she was just over 8 months. We travelled across the plenty through western QLD, western NSW, Syd, Adelaide then up through the Flinders then home to Alice. The only thing that is a must is a good sheep skin (wool) seat cover for you.

PS. we have five children between us 2 hospital, 1 birthing suit and 2 home births. Plus 2 emergency births 1 at work and one in a car park.

The first breath in life the greatest thing you can ever experience.:):)

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Originally Posted by beefy

we have a baby due in april. we checked with the doctor and he said that there is not problems. but once the baby is born we will have to wait until they are at lest 6 months.


keith

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Woops took our 13 week old up the creb track about 2 weeks ago :eek:

My wife and I drove to Rainbow beach Qld when she was 5mths pregnant and she still complains about the bumps along the Cooloola Way track. I remember she sat on a pillow in the front passenger seat of the 110 County V8 and hung rigidly onto the passenger grab handle. I wouldn't do that again as it wasn't worth the complaints. No problem with the bitumen trip up there from Adelaide nor all the beach driving to Noosa and back. She was quite happy driving the car by herself along the beach.

I certainly wouldn't recommend 4wd tracks (like Cooloola over peak Xmas time) if you are bulging.

becoming a father at the later age of 42 i was all concerned and wanted to wrap mum up in cotton wool, and that great for the first couple of months until spine id formed etc, after that it seems that its better if you do more than normal.
i was in 1 village \ community where they believed that you had to be quite fit before conceiving, i remember that the average first bays birth only took 4-5 hours. we didn't change out daily life's still traveled, skiing and lived on the Lift floor with no lift, Gabbi popped out in 7 hours. we have friend who have or did little during pregnancy, it would appear that they are the ones who had the problems.
we were back to normal with Gabbi as soon as he could lift his own head.

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Originally Posted by richard4u2

let face it in a defender off roading can be as little as crossing the white lines in the middle of the road :D

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oi.............:twisted:coming from somebody that drives a shopping trolley....:p

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Originally Posted by Sleepy

<snip>... just imagine what it was like 10,000 years ago. You would have been out hunting 20 ft high wombats for dinnner....

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That's a little exaggeration Sleepy - Diprotodons became extinct at least 40,000 years ago and had a shoulder height aproximating the height of humans.

They were the largest marsupials and even if they could stand erect on the hind legs, would be little over 3 metres tall if they even achieved that length. :angel:

OK, perhaps an exageration but would have made a helluva roast, so 6 month pregnant cave woman would have had to have it gutted cleaned and in the pot by midday. :D cos hubby has a had a hard day at the cave.:p

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Originally Posted by weeds

oi.............:twisted:coming from somebody that drives a shopping trolley....:p

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at lest i get my eggs home from the supermarket un srambled :D

I think you should be right if you are experiencing a 'normal' pregnancy.

My own experience was ok - I went 4wding with Aaron up until I was 38 weeks pregnant with our first and I was fine - never went on anything too hardcore though (but our eldest daughter likes everything rough now - I wonder why :)) I was getting quite a lot of braxton hicks when we were out though but hey - I may have gotten them anyway so who knows !

We also did one trip up to Double Island when I was pregnant with our 2nd when I was about 5 months or so.

If you love getting out there - I don't think you'll have too much of a problem. It's when you're not overly thrilled about doing something in the first place that you will perhaps feel 'more' uncomfortable.

What the others said is good advice - to check with your doctor first if you are worried. I never bothered to do this because I didn't think it was needed in my case, but it is worth doing - especially if you have concerns. It may make you feel more comfortable.

Goodluck with the rest of your pregnancy !

Jacinta