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To be honest I think it will depend how your pregnancy goes. With my first baby I probably could have gone camping, although the whole toilet thing would have been a nightmare as the babys head was down so low by then that I was up every couple of hours all night. Also getting on and off a campbed would have been a bit tricky. I was that big that I wouldn't have been able to help put the tent up or down either!! 

With my third baby however I had such bad back pain that I could barely move in the last 3-4 weeks of pregnancy. The thought of going camping.....<shudder>

You also have to consider the pitching and sorting out of all the stuff, will you have enough help so you won't have to do any fetching and carrying and so on?

Sorry to sound so negative, but as I said until you get that far along in your pregnancy, you have no idea what will happen or how you will be feeling. From 37 weeks your baby could arrive at any moment anyway!

I think that if you were me, I'd hang fire, not book anything and wait until nearer the time. If I was going somewhere near enough to home to not matter if baby came early, was going to have enough help so I could just rest AND my midwife said I was fit enough to go, then I might go.

Good luck, and you are going to have fab camping holidays with your baby when he/she arrives, I'm sure :-)

Amanda x

Stay local, check with your doctor if you are well enough, let OH do all the work and have a wonderful camping trip