Bye bye baby! Travel during third trimester.

Your insurance company may decline to cover you for out of country travel past 29-32 weeks, and if you are stuck in your destination due to a medical emergency when your travel insurance runs out, well, good luck. (Also it typically doesn't cover the baby's medical needs.) I'd research the insurance situation very, very carefully before I made any decisions.

7 months is a tough age to be far from a qualified medical team who speak your language and who will give you excellent care. At that point, the baby is viable, but just barely--meaning that even small differences in care or small delays in getting medical treatment can make an enormous difference to the child's eventual quality of life. Ultimately, you can decide to take that risk, and it wouldn't be wrong to take that risk, but it is more of a risk than I'd be comfortable with and that would have wrecked my enjoyment of a given trip. Especially since I had lots of false labor, which is really common, but required that I go get checked out by my doctor about 10 different times (sigh). That would have been really stressful in a foreign country. I did airplane travel at 7 months and felt comfortable with it, but it was domestic travel and I was staying close to the Mayo Clinic. I would also have felt comfortable staying in NYC, which has great health care, world-class NICUs, etc. To me that part of the trip sounds great and like you'll be much more free to enjoy yourself than you would overseas.

If you're due at the end of February (let's say Feb 26), then it looks like Christmas day would be 31 weeks exactly. I'm pregnant and read birth stories over on reddit and have seen a surprising number of people giving birth in week 33. Statistically, it's a tiny fraction, but I've established that as my personal deadline for having the car seat installed, and I also personally wouldn't fly too far away after that stage. There's great info on likelihood of labor http://expectingscience.com/2014/09/29/your-due-date-is-wrong-so-when-is-labor-really-most-likely/. You'll still be before that point, however. I'd still probably take the earlier trip.

I'm voting for no travel at 7 months. You may feel great, everything may feel fine, BUT no one can predict what will happen - especially with your first pregnancy. My first baby came six weeks early and breech 2 days after my last perfect checkup with my OB. If anything- ANYTHING- goes wrong, you will blame yourself and beat yourself up for not being careful or taking enough care of yourself, because that's what every mother does. My son did great, no NICU, but for years I worried about everything and blamed myself for his early childhood asthma (maybe I shouldn't have gone to work that day...) Your doctor may thinks it's OK, but think this over very carefully.

If you can go earlier (Thanksgiving) I would do that. Earlier is always better and the thing is, you just can't predict how your pregnancy will go, especially in the later months when your body is under much more stress. I had my babymoon at five months and was active and had heaps of energy, it was a fantastic holiday. But when my third trimester hit, I had crippling sciatic pain. And when I mean crippling, I mean, when I put weight on my left leg, a lightning bolt of pain shot down from my pelvis, making my leg collapse underneath me so I smashed onto the floor, at eight months pregnant. I should have had crutches or a wheelchair, I certainly couldn't walk. If I'd attempted a European holiday - oh, hah, I literally couldn't imagine anything worse. And yet I would never have thought earlier that my pregnancy - both of them - would end up like that. Yeah, you could be fine, but if you have the option of going earlier, why wouldn't you.

Much depends on how often you'll be travelling to how many new places, as "Europe" is so vague.

It's not a great idea. You'll be stuck in a foreign country for a while if you give birth there and the baby is in nicu, your husband would have to go back to work, it would (likely) be expensive for anyone to come support you and you wouldnt be able to stay for long. And the culture shock is- shocking. Who will bring you food? Believe me when I tell you german hospital food is disgusting and someone has to bring you food! And things go wrong in pregnancy. I, like a couple women above, was cleared as fine at my 21 week appointment. My husband was told he was fine to travel to Spain on a last fitness holiday, I was fancying a trip to the UK to see my friends for the last time before becoming a mum. I cancelled my trip because I was knackered and I ended up going into preterm labor that week- we spent 3 weeks in the hospital and I had a surgery to prolong the pregnancy and was then in bed rest for the remainder. I now don't believe women should travel that late. It would have been a disaster if I'd had the baby in the UK, my husband would have had to go to work, I'd have been very alone. And you can travel with baby! We are currently on holiday with our 2.5 month old and its really nice, we take turns laying by to pool and baby sleeps out with us in his koo di... Don't try to do to much. People don't like to accept that pregnancy changes things, but it does. And to ignore that can be detrimental to the baby.

I really wouldn't do it, for all the reasons above. And as an anecdote, I've never ever seen a heavily pregnant woman on any of my travels. I have however seen a tonne of people travelling with infants and they looked as happy and relaxed as anyone else.

So if you're due end of February you're what, four months now? How are you feeling now? No one can tell you exactly how you'll feel it how it would go. Anecdotally, based on my pregnancy (when I had to move literally around the planet at 4 months), I'd happily go at 6 months (so your Thanksgiving), maaaaybe 7 months. I did domestic travel -- up to 3.5 hours flying -- at 7.5 months with no problem. But both bits of travel required a lot of downtime and nap time compared to what I was used to. My ankles were really swollen. Many of my trusty shoes didn't fit any more. I'd honestly say it's the "walking" part of your plan that concerns me. Babymoons are better for relaxing and lounging than they are for Let's See Everything kind of travel. On the other side, we've traveled with our daughter quite a lot already -- at six months of age she had spent 1% of her life in the air -- including a two week trip from Australia to the U.S. when she was about five months. Totally recommend it! She travelled great, the jet lag was manageable, and we could push her in her stroller all over cities where she'd mostly sleep and feed her on the go sitting on a bench in the park and no problems. Now, at 10 months? She's squirmy and wants to crawl all the time and needs solid food as well and that trip would be a whole different kettle of fish today. So if you go on the other side, go before 6 months, is my recommendation. (Note: she was a good sleeper, good eater, and pretty chill baby. YMMV and make travel easier or harder)