Pregnancy tips?
 

Has anyone been to Morocco while pregnant? I will be travelling next month and need some good health tips.:help smilie:

Hi,
Personally no being a bloke. doh Though I imagine the normal rules apply; bottled water, no salads/buffets, etc. I would also stay off street food, and enjoy yourself, it's a great Country.



Obviously you've googled "Morocco while pregnant".


Safe travels.

I'm not usually a doom merchant.. I've lived in Nepal and India, and I like to think I have bowels of steel, however I did get very sick there, on a fly ride holiday last September. Its hard though, as you never know whether it is because of poor hygiene in a kitchen or just from some random fly landing on your glass.

In some of the more rural places like Imichil, the restaurants send you over to the butchers to pick your own meat. Then you bring it back to them, they cook it up on the charcoal bbq. We sent our food back to go back on as the chicken was still raw. The tagines are a better bet, as they are usually very thoroughly cooked, however time your food stops well, as they sell out at late lunch, too early and you have to wait an hour for them to be ready.

In an emergency, try to get transfered home since they have hygien issues at the hospitals.

I was there on a fly-in/4x4 holiday when 7 months pregnant, and had no issues - but the normal rules apply. Bottled water, watch what you eat, etc. Good medical insurance with an evac option is also useful! :thumbup1:

Thank you!!!
 

Thank you for all the suggestions.

we did a 4000km roadtrip through Morocco in December 2015 when my eldest was 18 months old and my wife was 4 months pregnant. We were in a landcruiser. My wife was OK throughout the entire trip which was 60% offroad. She was OK with the offroad mountain passes and the sand duning (my wife also drove in the sand dunes). The only time where she got uncomfortable was the piste from Zagora to Merzouga due to the corrugations. I dropped the tyre pressures down to 15psi which made things better but I was still a little concerned because I found 80km/h to be the best speed but I was worried about washouts. Besides that everything was perfectly fine. Our trip was a mix of camping and hotels. If you ask my wife now about doing that trip again, she's fine with it except the above mentioned.

It depends how far gone you are.
I'm a nurse of 30 years and worked in medical assistance the last 5.
It's not the flying thats the issue, it's if you have a problem in country, the local facilities are not good. I've had cases where babies have died because we can't evacuate quickly enough when the mother has gone into premature labour.
I really wouldn't recommend it.
Yeh, you might get away with it, you might get away with Russian Roulette as well, but thats only your life.
I'm afraid I regard people travelling to remote places with babies and toddlers selfish and reckless.

Plenty of people would regard travelling to remote places on motorcycles as rather selfish and reckless. After all, we've all got someone waiting for us at home. I don't think this is the thread to be judgemental, but I'm sure the OP will be grateful for any first hand practical advice so she can make her own informed choices.

I've given practical advice, and I'm not being judgemental, thats my professional opinion. The OP asked the question, 'Any health tips', I gave them, I don't recommend it, and the reasons why, so I gave the OP an answer. You didn't ask the question so your interpretation of what the OP did or didn't want is irrelevant, and one could say, judgemental. Whether someone likes the answer or not is also irrelevant, if you ask a question you may get answers you don't like. If you're looking for people to validate a decision you've already made, look elsewhere.

Your analogy is rather ridiculous.
1. The risk level is entirely different
2. You choose to go out on your motorbike, the unborn child, baby, or toddler, had no choice about you taking it somewhere that will quite specifically, as an infant, put them at significantly greater risk.