Is it safe for someone in their first trimester of pregnancy to travel on a plane?
Pregnancy was once seen as something that sent women to their homes once their bellies began to protrude, hence the term confinement. It was not considered appropriate for a pregnant women to be seen in public. Nowadays pregnancy rarely changes our schedules, with the exception of complications. Women continue their normal lives usually for the duration of the pregnancy, with minor exceptions (Like knowing where all the bathrooms are!). Travel is no exception. Travel is becoming more prevalent as families move further and further away. Traveling for holidays or as a last trip to see the family before the baby or as a last romantic vacation, is not unusual. This even includes out of the country travel and often air travel. Air travel has had it’s share of bad stories told and rumors spread, add pregnancy to the mixture and you probably wouldn’t believe the number of things that are said about air travel while pregnant. Most of the studies on pregnancy and air travel have been done on fe
