https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 15 Apr 2026 07:07:57 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-travel-15-hrs-away-the-day-after-your-due-date#post-815435 Wed, 29 May 2013 12:51:17 +0000 Mrs. WinterWheat 815435@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>How nice! I know it is after the fact but just wanted to chime in that is how far I live from the hospital :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-travel-15-hrs-away-the-day-after-your-due-date#post-809652 Sun, 26 May 2013 01:53:28 +0000 Boogs 809652@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Glad it worked out for you. The massage and bath sounded like the perfect end to the day! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-travel-15-hrs-away-the-day-after-your-due-date#post-809601 Sat, 25 May 2013 22:44:43 +0000 Running Elley 809601@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@maybebaby: I'm so glad that things worked out! And your evening sounds absolutely heavenly :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-travel-15-hrs-away-the-day-after-your-due-date#post-809596 Sat, 25 May 2013 22:40:45 +0000 birdofafeather 809596@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@maybebaby: glad you had a good day. Hope that baby comes soon for you!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-travel-15-hrs-away-the-day-after-your-due-date#post-809503 Sat, 25 May 2013 21:08:38 +0000 maybebaby 809503@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Thanks for all the input ladies, it was very helpful! I ultimately decided to play it by ear and this AM I felt up to it and didn't want to spend a rainy Saturday at home, so we went. I brought pillows and got cozy in the car, and the graduation was really nice. Had a delicious meal with DH's family and I even felt up to outlet shopping on the way home...why not? We got some cute little things for baby boy including some absurdly impractical infant Sperry topsiders. </p> <p>I am pretty wiped from a long day now, but when we got home, DH drew me a lavender bath and gave me a nice massage with mint lotion and got me in my jammies. Feeling much better :)</p> <p>Thanks again for the input--I am sure I would be singing a very different tune if things had ended up happening labor-wise! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-travel-15-hrs-away-the-day-after-your-due-date#post-802835 Thu, 23 May 2013 09:09:14 +0000 immabeetoo 802835@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I wouldn't, labor in the car was horrible. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-travel-15-hrs-away-the-day-after-your-due-date#post-802800 Thu, 23 May 2013 08:57:49 +0000 MrsF 802800@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I probably wouldn't go. I'm just thinking about how uncomfortable I felt sitting in one place at the end of my pregnancy and I only made it to 36 weeks! </p> <p>As far as moons go, I love that my daughter was born on the harvest moon (the full moon closest to the autumnal equinox). And working in a hospital, I believe in the power of a full moon! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-travel-15-hrs-away-the-day-after-your-due-date#post-802795 Thu, 23 May 2013 08:55:45 +0000 MrsLilybugg 802795@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I also vote for staying home - I'm already uncomfortable at 32 weeks so can't imagine 40 weeks!! If you feel up to it however, there's some good advice re aisle seat and back-up hospital plan :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-travel-15-hrs-away-the-day-after-your-due-date#post-802778 Thu, 23 May 2013 08:50:41 +0000 oliviaoblivia 802778@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'd stay home. Labouring in a car would be miserable and you never know how quickly it will happen for you. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-travel-15-hrs-away-the-day-after-your-due-date#post-802777 Thu, 23 May 2013 08:49:07 +0000 Pink Champagne 802777@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nooooo... I wouldn't. Sitting through a long graduation ceremony at 40 weeks pregnant sounds horrible. Sitting in the car having contractions sounds even worse.<br /> I would stay home. I feel like people will understand :). Plus, DH could go, right? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-travel-15-hrs-away-the-day-after-your-due-date#post-802741 Thu, 23 May 2013 08:35:03 +0000 mrsmenow 802741@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would if you are still feeling up to it. You can always head home if you feel things are starting. Just sit near an exit our end of an isle. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-travel-15-hrs-away-the-day-after-your-due-date#post-802710 Thu, 23 May 2013 08:25:48 +0000 Dandelion 802710@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No way...that long of a car ride when you're in labor sounds horrible. Not to mention that you'll have to probably crawl over people to even get out of the auditorium, and doing that in labor would cause way too much attention away from the graduates. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-travel-15-hrs-away-the-day-after-your-due-date#post-802709 Thu, 23 May 2013 08:25:46 +0000 T.H.O.U. 802709@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@maybebaby: It sounds like if you are set on delivering at your hospital with your midwife, then I would stay home. If you don't really care that something could come up and you couldn't come home, then I wouldn't worry about going. Usually close to the end, my OB gave all of my prenatal care papers in case he wasn't the one delivering. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-travel-15-hrs-away-the-day-after-your-due-date#post-802701 Thu, 23 May 2013 08:23:25 +0000 maybebaby 802701@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MsLipGloss: Oh how lovely!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-travel-15-hrs-away-the-day-after-your-due-date#post-802696 Thu, 23 May 2013 08:22:33 +0000 MsLipGloss 802696@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@maybebaby: A Blue Moon is the second full moon of the month . . . it only happens every 2-3 years. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-travel-15-hrs-away-the-day-after-your-due-date#post-802688 Thu, 23 May 2013 08:18:47 +0000 autumnlove 802688@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I wouldn't because I would want to avoid crowds and be comfortable at that stage of my pregnancy. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-travel-15-hrs-away-the-day-after-your-due-date#post-802685 Thu, 23 May 2013 08:18:08 +0000 jetsa 802685@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My hospital is 45 mins - 1 hour away so yes. Its not likely you wouldn't make it back to the hospital. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-travel-15-hrs-away-the-day-after-your-due-date#post-802670 Thu, 23 May 2013 08:11:33 +0000 Bao 802670@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No because I really wanted my OB to deliver my baby (thankfully she was able to), and if I were to travel an hour and a half away that would take away my chances. From first contraction to contractions 3 minutes apart was only an hour for me! I could barely make the 15 minute ride to the hospital. However, usually you have a little more time than this :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-travel-15-hrs-away-the-day-after-your-due-date#post-802662 Thu, 23 May 2013 08:07:43 +0000 maybebaby 802662@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@matador84: Hmmmm Due date is tomorrow and full moon is Saturday! Perhaps it really will happen?</p> <p>@T.H.O.U.: I hadn't even thought that far ahead (another hospital or if midwife could go). The more I think about it the more I feel like I should just send him and make sure his cell is on so I can reach him in any event. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-travel-15-hrs-away-the-day-after-your-due-date#post-802545 Thu, 23 May 2013 07:15:39 +0000 T.H.O.U. 802545@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would talk to the midwife obviously. </p> <p>And is there a hospital where you are going that you would be ok with delivering at if for some reason things came on strong and you couldn't make the drive to your hospital? Could the midwife come to this other hospital? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-travel-15-hrs-away-the-day-after-your-due-date#post-802536 Thu, 23 May 2013 07:11:09 +0000 matador84 802536@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm with mslipgloss I had a blue moon baby too! I was 100% effaced and dilated to a 2. My ob said he thought I'd go into labor on my own and I did on my due date! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-travel-15-hrs-away-the-day-after-your-due-date#post-802514 Thu, 23 May 2013 07:02:57 +0000 edelweiss 802514@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MamaMoose: this happened to me also--no ramp up, just full on labor from the get-go, and because of that i would say no. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-travel-15-hrs-away-the-day-after-your-due-date#post-802497 Thu, 23 May 2013 06:52:26 +0000 Rubies 802497@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I wouldn't just because I wouldn't like the idea of being in an unfamiliar place if I actually did go into labour. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-travel-15-hrs-away-the-day-after-your-due-date#post-802483 Thu, 23 May 2013 06:43:34 +0000 Kiki 802483@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would as long as you are feeling good and the midwife thinks it is fine. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-travel-15-hrs-away-the-day-after-your-due-date#post-802478 Thu, 23 May 2013 06:42:03 +0000 mediagirl 802478@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would wait until the day of and see how you feel. If you feel "off" at all, I would not go. If you feel perfectly normal, I would go. 3 hours in a car and sitting through a graduation the day after your due date sounds pretty miserable to me, though. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-travel-15-hrs-away-the-day-after-your-due-date#post-802468 Thu, 23 May 2013 06:36:45 +0000 heffalump 802468@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No. I felt fine right up to the second I went into labor. And sitting in a car for that long when you're having painful contractions..... Not fun. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-travel-15-hrs-away-the-day-after-your-due-date#post-802462 Thu, 23 May 2013 06:29:28 +0000 pl0508 802462@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Personally , no ! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-travel-15-hrs-away-the-day-after-your-due-date#post-802448 Thu, 23 May 2013 06:09:52 +0000 blackbird 802448@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes but I delivered a week later and I went to Easter dinner the day after my due date about 45 min away. As long as I could mostly sit around, I was fine. BUT I wasn't having any signs of labor. I would play it by ear </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-travel-15-hrs-away-the-day-after-your-due-date#post-802443 Thu, 23 May 2013 06:05:59 +0000 MamaMoose 802443@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Before I had my baby I would have said yes since my doctor's max was two hours away from the hospital. But... My labor came on strong out of nowhere! My first two contractions were four minutes apart lasting a minute each and they never slowed down. I would have died if I had to spend an hour and a half in a car laboring like that!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-travel-15-hrs-away-the-day-after-your-due-date#post-802426 Thu, 23 May 2013 05:33:52 +0000 Anagram 802426@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think an hour and a half is okay. It takes me an hour and a half to get home from work almost every Friday, since the whole world seems to want to drive to NYC on Friday nights.</p> <p>Take the hospital bag with you. </p>