Comment on Having a baby? Use this one weird trick!

Corigan@lemm.ee ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Is that true? Sounds kind of discriminatory.

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  • mEEGal@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    sounds more like they don’t need a medical emergency mid flight aka 10km above the ocean

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  • Corigan@lemm.ee ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    www.usatoday.com/story/travel/…/83846106/

    Certainly you can, but a lot of hurdles to restrictions. And most obgyns won’t approve you if you have any risk factors.

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• Lyrl@lemm.ee ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  A quick internet search suggests 36 weeks (eight months), which is well into the third trimester, is the most common start of restrictions, and many airlines will accept a doctor’s note the woman is low risk even past that. It was a 2008 election blip when the media got ahold of Sarah Palin flying while in labor because she wanted her special-needs baby delivered by the medical team that had prepared for him, which suggests even the written restrictions in airline policy are not consistently enforced.

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• kiagam@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If a doctor clears you, they can’t deny it.

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  • Dozzi92@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sure they can. “My doctor said I can!” Well, they say you can’t. Why would a doctor’s note get you on an airplane?

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    • syreus@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It would shed the liability from the Airline.

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      • Dozzi92@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I mean, sure, maybe in the ensuing lawsuit they could be like hey, her doctor said it was cool, but it doesn’t change the fact that there’s a baby being born on an airplane in transit. Nobody wants that, airlines will shut that down, and it’s not discrimination, it’s just a good decision.

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