Bonnaroo While Pregnant: Yay or Nay?

babble.com - Posted by Katie Allison Granju on February 15th, 2011 at 10:43 pm

I snapped this photo at Bonnaroo 2006. Love it.

Today, when the roster for this summer’s Bonnaroo penalization festival was announced, I hit to adjudge that I got pretty excited. Seeing Eminem, Girl Talk and Loretta Lynn at the aforementioned circumstance would definitely be my intent of a beatific time.

I haven’t been to Bonnaroo in the instance individual eld for a difference of reasons, but this year’s roster of acts is so exceptional that I meet haw be lured back to Manchester after my temporary Bonnaroo retirement. Because I live in Knoxville, TN, bag of AC Entertainment, Bonnaroo is sort of same a semi-religious journeying every assemblage for a enthusiastic some of my friends and acquaintances. In fact, Knoxville media covers Bonnaroo every assemblage as if it were our own event, modify though the actual concert venue is in Manchester, TN, most 2 hours west of us.  Knoxvillians’ life and boosterism for Bonnaroo comes from the fact that Ashley Capps, the hometown hero behindhand AC Entertainment, co-founded Bonnaroo.  Ashley continues to endeavor a directive persona (many would say the directive role) in planning and executing the festivity apiece year, and he’s been enthusiastic most giving some up and coming Knoxville acts alarming exposure by transfer them in to endeavor Bonnaroo’s shelter stages. In addition to being arguably the most striking concert advertizer employed today, Ashley is also a rattling beatific guy.

Given my topical ties to Bonnaroo, along with the fact that I am a penalization fan, it’s not surprising that I hit been to Bonnaroo individual times. My Bonnaroo experiences hit been among the most recreation nowadays I’ve ever had. While at the festival, I’ve seen some awful shows, discovered newborn bands that hit become favorites, met newborn grouping and hung discover with friends I rarely see. Also patch at Bonnaroo, I’ve finished the kinds of irresponsibly entertaining things I don’t commonly intend to do since becoming a parent and a Real Grownup, same staying up every period diversion across the festivity site, migrating from digit band’s show to another, and ending up inside the unhearable disco tent.  In short, Bonnaroo is really, rattling fun.

Me, "working"at Bonnaroo. The full festivity place is wi-fi enabled.

But when someone asked me today whether I intellection that she and her economise should study going this year, I had to tell her no. In fact, my literal words to her were HELL NO. That’s because she module be play the terminal trimester of her first pregnancy when Bonnaroo gets underway this June. And patch I trusty saw some meaningful women wandering around and modify diversion at Bonnaroo,  the festivity meet isn’t  something I would propose doing patch pregnant.

Bonnaroo is as substantially fashioned and executed as some circumstance featuring 80,000 grouping and 95-plus honor river season modify crapper be. But between the intense, sometimes resistless heat, the oscillating torrential downpours, and the soil and detritus that needs gets churned up within a day or digit of every those grouping connection on the festivity grounds, the physical surround crapper be challenging for anyone. I undergo that I trusty couldn’t hit managed Bonnaroo during my own pregnancies.

While I’ve been serendipitous sufficiency to reason a campsite in the relatively shadowy and sedgelike media Atlantic (complete with expose healthy lodging for plugging in a laptop or cellphone) when I’ve attended Bonnaroo in eld past, the generalized tenting Atlantic doesn’t substance these comforts. Instead, it’s a blistering and dusty seafaring of tens of thousands of grouping tenting in very near quarters. While the support in Bonnaroo’s generalized tenting Atlantic re pretty beatific for a colossus exterior penalization festival, they are not fashioned to meet the needs of meaningful women. In another words, unless you are alright with stagnant in an exterior bathroom with 50 another grouping for up to 30 minutes patch the sun beatniks downbound on your giant, achey belly, and as the child dances on your bladder,  doing Bonnaroo patch meaningful haw not be for you. Also, in the implausible circumstance that a meaningful festivalgoer needed emergency medical attention specific to a pregnancy complication, it could be hard to intend off-site to a infirmary apace sufficiency for comfort.

I wish I have’t rained on anyone’s parade. I love, love, fuck Bonnaroo, and I conceive that the organizers do a alarming job making the circumstance as easy and favourable for attendees as possible. But it is what it is – a ginormous, exterior penalization festivity held at a agricultural positioning and scheduled in the summertime, when it gets a wee taste blistering and humid here in Tennessee.

Bonnaroo is definitely the singable undergo of a lifetime, and I can’t propose it highly enough. Everyone should listen at small once. However,  if you want my advice on how to hit the best instance possible, wait to hit your awful Bonnaroo undergo until next assemblage or modify the assemblage after, when you are no individual knocked up, and the child is older sufficiency to leave with Grandma patch you savor a some life of grown-up, child-free revelry.

And be trusty to alter sunscreen. Lots of sunscreen.

So what do y’all think? Have you ever been to Bonnaroo? Did you savor it as such as I did? And what most the intent of present Bonnaroo patch pregnant; would you ever do it? Have you finished it?  Or hit some of you ever attended some another big, multiday, tenting penalization festivity patch pregnant? Talk most it in the comments below.

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