Don't let anybody, anyone, because they're gonna be tons of people, I get it pretty much
every day tell you that you cannot travel with a baby or you can't travel and be pregnant.
That is absolute bullshit.
Let's talk about traveling while you're pregnant.
Ladies who are pregnant out there, ladies were thinking about getting pregnant and gentlemen
who may have a lady in their life, either now or in the future who's pregnant but wants
to travel, this video is for all of you.
If you're new to this channel, my name is Kristen Sarah and I run hopscotchtheglobe
which is this channel, this brand with my husband Siya.
We've been traveling the world for over 12 years now, pretty much non-stop and now instead
of two of us, there's three of us and actually currently there's two of us traveling, me
and the baby.
I'm currently in my second trimester, traveling, I've continued to do it, there's no stopping
me.
There's no stopping me now, there's no stopping me when I have a baby either.
Mother beeper, that is what my husband is now [Chuckles] huh.
The camera moved, now the framing is gonna be off, but life goes on.
Let's get to some of these amazing questions you guys were asking on Twitter, Facebook,
Instagram and the YouTube community tab.
On the YouTube community tab, Velvet Sky said that she is currently pregnant...
First of all, huge congratulations to you.
This is super exciting, such a great time for the both of us and we get to do it together
which I love.
I love that there's actually so many of you guys out there who are part of this community
who are also pregnant and we get to do this together.
So Velvet asked "how do you stay comfortable during travel?"
I'm pretty much not comfortable all the time to a certain extent, does matter if traveling
or not.
When it comes to plane travel, the least favorite part of mine of traveling in general especially
pregnant but there are ways to make it more comfortable.
One; get an aisle seat.
You're gonna be getting up to pee so often.
It also gives you room, more room to like spread out your legs if you need to.
I go to the washroom now like every 20 minutes, sometimes even more and because you want to
stay hydrated, extra hydrated when you're flying, you're gonna end up going to the washroom
probably every five minutes, if you're like me.
It is always important to stay hydrated for everyone who flies but it is especially important
for pregnant women.
I get up at least once an hour to move around, to stretch.
I do like yoga, I do some like crazy stretches in the aisle, I don't care what people think,
they look at me like crazy.
You know what, taking care of my body.
The reason for this is because pregnant women are more prone to blood clotting during pregnancy
and we don't want that.
If I'm taking an overnight flight and I know the airline provides those like small pillows,
I asked for extra one so I can put it in the lower part of my back to give me extra support
or if not, then I'll just roll up one of my sweatshirts and put it there and that just
gives that extra cushion which is really nice.
Caro asked, "what countries will you be visiting while pregnant, what precautions do you take
and are there any places you can't visit for health reasons?" so the first part, "what
countries will you be traveling to?"
again, I've been pregnant for five months now, so I've been traveling pretty much the
whole time and pretty much non-stop.
So, I will continue traveling until I'm basically told I'm not allowed to anymore which will
most likely be by the airline because they only allow you to travel up to 35 week - up
to the 35 week mark and then you can't anymore, they won't let you on.
Throughout this pregnancy, I'm basically doing a lot of North American travel to Canada and
the US as well as Europe and parts of Asia, I'm going to Japan.
There have been quite a few opportunities that have come to us.
As travel influencers, we work with different tourism boards and brands and I haven't been
able to say 'yes' to those destinations because there's a chance of malaria or Zika, those
are the two main ones and I just - even if it's a slight chance, I just - it's not one
I want to take.
I'd rather just wait until the baby's born and then go travel with the baby.
My husband Siya though is going on those trips by himself and he's gonna have a fantastic
time like South Africa, he was just in Jamaica twice, so there're a lot of trips and travels
coming up that we're going to share in this channel but I will not be travelling to some places
because of those health risks.
Zika!
The scary Zika, like all my friends are terrified of Zika, some people were like planning on
getting pregnant or are pregnant tell me they're terrified of Zika and traveling anywhere.
It's not all over the world.
There was an outbreak that happened a few years ago now which really scared a lot of
people and it's like - especially in South America, Central America and there were a
lot of babies that were affected because the mother was pregnant at the time and got the
Zika virus and pass it to their fetus.
Now that it has died down a bit, there's still alerts online that tell you if you're pregnant
you shouldn't travel to these places and if I wasn't pregnant, I wouldn't really even
bat my eyes on the fact of possibly getting Zika.
Not that it's not possible but it's just so slim and just something that I wouldn't really
- like it wouldn't stop me from traveling.
But because I'm pregnant, I'm not taking any chances of something happening and then the
rest of my life, the rest of my husband's life and the rest of the baby's life is a
struggle when it could have been prevented.
Jiya Shah asked "what are some safety tips while being pregnant and traveling?"
I would look up the place that you want to go and see if there any health risks and it's
up to you to evaluate what you - what you feel.
I personally don't want to take malaria pills or use heavy deep bug spray because that stuff
going into my body that I don't want to pass on to my baby when I can just avoid it altogether.
Other travel tips would be to make sure that you are healthy, you're good, you've gone
to your recent checkup and everything looks good, you're healthy so that you can continue
to travel and it's good to talk with your doctor and tell them - tell him or her that
you are going to be traveling.
If you know you're pregnant, try to avoid doing extra crazy adventurous activities that
could lead to you falling or getting hit hard in the stomach, also have travel insurance
and make sure your travel insurance covers you for being pregnant if anything happens
when you're abroad.
It's also good to see in the city you're staying where the closest doctor's office or hospital
is just in case anything happens.
Monica Nieuwland asked "do you recommend not traveling the first trimester?" that is completely
dependent on the individual because some women have horrible horrible horrible first trimesters
where they are puking non-stop, that can't get in bed and no one's gonna want to travel
at that time.
For me, I wasn't at my best.
I was nauseous, I was tired, I didn't enjoy travel as much in my first trimester as I
had in my second where I have a lot more energy.
I would recommend to do more travel in your second trimester and leave your first and
your third more to staying at home.
Not that you can't travel but it could be a little bit trickier especially if you're
not staying in a place for a long period of time.
Also it depends on your health and it depends on your pregnancy and how it's going, it's
best to talk to your doctor, your midwives and tell them your travel plans and see what
they say.
In your first trimester, you have a lot of doctor's appointments, at least I did, and
just to make sure everything was good, I got all of my prenatal testing done to make sure
the baby is healthy, I got my testing done to make sure I'm healthy, had to go to a couple
ultrasounds, meet with the midwives...
Like I was pretty busy with these appointments.
And as the pregnancy goes on into the second trimester, I only have one appointment that
I needed to go to.
And then in the third trimester again, you're going to more appointments.
So, second trimester, that is the best trimester to travel.
Going to Instagram now - Soniadoubleg asks "what's the worst thing about traveling pregnant?"
has peeing been an issue?"
well, you nailed it spot on.
Peeing it's like a nightmare when you're traveling pregnant.
I've already gone twice during this video.
When you were pregnant and you have to pee, you go, you don't wait.
Men who're traveling with their ladies, if your lady is gotta pee, you make sure she
gets to pee.
My number one thing when doing any excursions that includes a bus, I ask "does the bus
have a toilet?" even if it like is planning to stop along the way if the journey is long
and it doesn't have a toilet on the bus, I'm like "nope, I ain't doing it."
because I know how uncomfortable - uncomfortable I'm gonna feel since I have to go so often.
So that has been like the worst because I was on a bus that did not have a toilet and
that is when I learned that I will not take any others without a toilet and it was so
painful to hold it even though I asked the bus driver to stop and he did, there was so
many other people on the bus and I just felt like an inconvenience.
He did stop twice along our four-hour journey, it was the best pee of my life.
Whereismirnag, "when will you stop travelling and for how long after the baby is born?"
I'm gonna travel till basically like the seven month mark or 35 weeks when I can't take a
flight anymore and as long as I'm healthy and I'm good and my doctor says "you're good"
then I'm just gonna keep traveling until the airlines kick me off.
After the baby's born, we're planning to take a month off completely which I have not done
in like eight years.
That's crazy to think about and we are gonna be waiting until the baby is able to get vaccinated
because we don't want to him on a plane for example and expose them to potential illnesses.
Baby's immune systems are really like weak at that point, so we want to build that up
a little bit, make sure they're vaccinated and the doctor gives him the thumbs up and
then we're planning to move to Costa Rica...
To be continued.
Siya is gonna continue to travel though.
He's actually going on a cruise that you guys can join.
I'll leave information in the description box below.
It's a creator influencer travel cruise which is super fun.
I think they're going to some parts of Florida and Mexico.
I can't because they don't want the baby on board and I have to breastfeed baby, so that's
cool.
Siya will be there, he'll be continuing his travels.
All right friends, there are so many more questions that I still have to answer.
Some of your questions I'm going to make into completely like just videos on their own.
If you have a question you haven't ask yet, please do so in the comment below and I will
get to them.
There is so much we can do when it comes to being pregnant as a traveler, so we can do
a whole series on this.
We will be doing a whole series on this, so keep those questions coming.
And for those of you out there who are pregnant or thinking about being pregnant and who want
to still travel, girls, guys, men, ladies you can.
Don't let anybody, anyone, because they're gonna be tons of people, I get it pretty much
every day tell you that you cannot travel with a baby or you can't travel and be pregnant.
That is absolute bullshit.
The poop of a bull, that is what that is.
And when people come to us and say "well, what are you gonna do now that you're - you're
pregnant, you can't travel anymore, you can't travel when you're pregnant".
I love it because I go, "watch me!"