Thread: Driving with a bun in the oven

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.

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

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

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.

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

oi.............coming from somebody that drives a shopping trolley....

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....

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.

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. cos hubby has a had a hard day at the cave.

Originally Posted by weeds

oi.............coming from somebody that drives a shopping trolley....

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