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A couple were told they faced a $200,000 (£146,500) medical bill when their baby was born prematurely in the US, despite them having travel insurance which covered her pregnancy.
isnt advisable by studies for pregnant woman to not travel outside thier country to avoid situations like these.
It’s less to avoid situations like this and more to avoid the stresses of travel and having something come up in a situation where medical care might not be available, or leaving you far away from your usual care team, or in a situation where you have a very fresh baby and you live 5000 miles away, which can make for a very rough trip home or a difficult recovery in a faraway place.
It’s advisable not to travel to, over, or near the United States regardless of pregnancy status
It really depends on various factors like how far into the pregnancy she is (travel when you’re 2 months in is vastly different to travel when you’re 8 months in), how urgent the need to travel is (traveling to go to an anime convention is vasly less urgent than traveling to lay your mom to rest), how far you’re traveling (a weekend saunter to the next town over is different than traveling half way around the globe (which it sounds like she did)), whether the doctor overseeing your care says its okay, and other stuff.