It’s travel season for many Canadians searching for sun and warmth down south, but the risk of the rapidly-spreading Zika virus is changing vacation plans for some.

With four confirmed cases of the virus in Canada, one Nova Scotia couple has cancelled their trip to the Dominican Republic.

“We were so close. We were counting down since 97 days or something,” says Brandan Mombourquette.

The parents of two boys, Brandan and his wife Kayla are expecting a girl. Kayla, now 20 weeks pregnant, had booked the trip down south as a babymoon.

“He got laid off work right before our wedding, so we cancelled our big wedding,” she says. “We eloped on the beach, just the two of us, and we said we’d put out money away for a little vacation.”

The Lake Echo couple was supposed to take off on Tuesday, but the mosquito-borne virus has been linked to several birth defects in babies, and it’s spreading across south and Central America.

Canadian health officials are warning pregnant women and those who are thinking about becoming pregnant to put off trips to central and South America. The director general of the World Health Organization says cases have been reported in 23 countries, including the Dominican Republic.

“We called on Friday morning and talked to travel doctors and my doctor; she said ‘do not go,’” says Kayla. “It is way too scary and not worth one bit of the risk.”

Kayla says they want to be especially careful because they have already lost a child.

Stuck with nearly $2,300 in travel costs, the couple was hoping Sunwing would refund them because an Ontario couple in a similar situation received a full refund.

At first, the couple was told Sunwing couldn’t talk to them about their file because they had booked their trip through Red Tag.

After nine hours on the phone, the Mombourquettes say Red Tag told them they could change their names on the tickets for a $250 fee each or take a travel voucher.

“A travel voucher to be used within the year, so if the Zika virus isn’t cleared up in eight weeks, which I don’t think it will be, I can’t travel and then I can’t travel with a newborn that’s not immunized,” says Kayla.

However, Sunwing has since offered the couple a full refund, after getting in touch with their travel agency.

With files from CTV Atlantic's Kelly Linehan