Baby in November Oz in December!

jillie1974

have you checked with the airline that they will allow a very young infant to fly?
if she goes over baby might be only 4 weeks old

sunshinetours

You could also be flying before innoculations etc which from memory are around 6 weeks or so. That is a long flight with its germs and stale air for a non innoculated baby?

Good luck with it all and pray you get some non child haters next to you

markalanious

Health wise - we checked with the midwife and she says it's fine.

FYI, I checked with directline and they said that insurance won't be a problem for our situation.

Make-it-3

OP have you really thought this through?

First you sound like you are going to book flights as soon as the insurance is sorted, have you checked the airline will allow you to add a party to your booking. Although babes in arms go free, they still need to be ticketed and can only do so when they have a registered name, DOB and often passport number. You will also need to pay the taxes on their ticket which won't be cheap going to Australia.

As well as baby arriving late, you might not get an appointment to register the birth as soon as you would like, then you are relying on speedy passport office, then getting ticketed and the Australian visa. So much could go wrong, I wouldn't want to insure you.

Babies are relatively easy to travel with at that age, but do you really want to put your partner through a gruelling long flight so soon after labour? She will probably still have her lochia, may have stitches (ouch!) and be feeling hormonal and sleep-deprived.

agrinnall

markalanious wrote: »

It's not ideal but we can't get out of it

It's ridiculous to say you can't get out of it because all you have to do is say to the groom that your family takes precedence over his. If he doesn't like that then he's not as good a friend as you think he is.

meer53

It's impossible to take anything for granted where babies are concerned. Baby may be early, or late, breastfeeding can be very difficult to establish, sometimes impossible, mum may have other medical problems too, mastitis, PND, stitches that won't heal, the list is endless. What happens if the mum ends up with a C section ?

My second baby was delivered 5 weeks early weighing 3 lbs by emergency C section and was in an incubator for 4 weeks. If someone had said to me, here's a ticket for a flight to Australia, when she was 6 weeks old, i'd have told them where to shove it !

If the OP feels it's important for him to be there, he should make arrangements to go on his own. How his wife will feel about that i have no idea (well, i do really !!)

dazzer68

Lots of things to think about, firstly, the mother and babys welfare comes before anything else!! A flight to australia is tiring fir anyone, let all someone who has just given birth. Secondly, what if theres complications in the birth and maybe mum and baby need to stay in hospital? And which flight is it, as i dont want to be on it, new born babies on a plane for a 24 hour flight, no thanks.

peachyprice

Lets hope the birth goes smoothly and she doesn't have too many stitches or, even worse, a C-Section :whistle:

I have to agree with the posts above. Of course you CAN get out of it, you just say 'sorry mate, can't make it'. You're choosing not to.

It would be a very selfish groom who would expect you to schlep your newborn and post-natal wife across the globe.

Doshwaster

Personally, if I was in the same situation I would just very politely decline the invitation to be the best man. With everything else that is going on in your life with a new baby the last thing I would want it a long, expensive and tiring journey to Oz. Better to wait and do the trip when you (and your baby) are in a better shape to enjoy it.

Spursman180

I've not seen it, I think on here.

Dummy, even if you don't want your child to have one, they're golden, helps allow the baby to equalise the pressure changes without screaming the walls down and a 6 weeks the little mite will be very sensitive.

Also a dummy will buy a few minutes when junior decides he/ she wants attention without disturbing the neighbours too much.