Pregnancy Diary

Airlines generally don’t let women fly in their third trimester without a doctors letter, and don’t allow pregnant women to fly in their last month or two. And before the last month, airline check-in staff can refuse to let you board the plane for medical reasons, so if you are visibly pregnant and flying, it’s best to check to have a letter from your doctor just in case you encounter an over-zealous check-in agent.

Something that preys on many pregnant moms’ minds… what if I go into labor somewhere remote? Or in a traffic jam? Or on an airplane? Going into labor on a plane is unusual, mostly because airlines restrict when pregnant women can fly.

Whaf funny is that there’s a UN ruling that babies born on international flights, and on ships sailing in international waters, the baby receives the nationality of the country in which the airplane was registered in. So Alfie is a British citizen. But if he was born on a Greek plane, he’d have dual British/Greek citizenship.