Adrian Ann

After not only surviving but thriving during my trip, I’ve come up with a few tips, tricks and must haves to make long international flights when pregnant as easy as possible. I suggest getting a letter from your doctor before you go that includes your estimated due date, dates of travel, destinations and a statement that your doctor has cleared you for travel. While decreasing your travel time is pretty important, remember that you’ll be moving slower than normal, so make sure you factor in extra transfer time between planes, getting to and from the airport, and transport in general. It isn’t fun having to rush when you’re also carrying another human along for the ride, so set yourself up for success and make sure you choose flights that allow for extra time.

From skydiving, to leech dodging, to raising a purebred German Shepherd, I enjoy pushing my limits and trying new things. Cue the late night diaper change by her father which resulted in a spatter of projectile poop ending up in his mouth and me laughing until tears fell. Through travel, through good food, through kind strangers, through delayed trains, through learning to entertain herself while on an overnight bus moving from one country to the next country, through finding her own place in the world. If you have suggestions on places to go, things to see, first words to get Isabelle to say, how to work when sleep deprived, you know… suggestions, shoot them my way.