How to stay active in pregnancy?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Whatever is comfortable and truly, understand and accept that pregnancy does different things to different bodies and you really have to listen to your own body when making these decisions.

I know one lady who was jogging 5 miles at 38 weeks. I was puking and had early pelvic bone separation (SPD) that made walking painful and was close to bedridden. Both are normal (I hope you are not me!) and you shouldn't let someone else's journey make you feel bad about yourself. Or conversely, let it make you feel that good about yourself (ie, become the kind of person that talks about how you stayed active and thats why you had an uncomplicated birth blah blah).

It's kind of just luck, but your body is really good at sending up the alarms when you've crossed the line. Congrats!

Very true. I tried to be active in both pregnancies but each time I had 20 weeks of nausea which made any vigorous activity a nonstarter. By the time the nausea subsided I had horrible ripping pain from a sideways baby who tore my ab and I couldn’t bend or lift arms for 2 months. By the time that healed I was a third tri whale and could barely move. Haha. So not much exercise at all!so much for good intentions. I definitely felt out of shape after giving birth but I walked an hour a day on maternity leave (once healed) and already felt much better after a couple months.

[Anonymous]

At baseline, try to walk or jog for 30-60 minutes a day.

[Anonymous]

I've been biking/walking for 30-60 minutes daily. Any other bikers? If so, when did you stop biking? My ob-gyn just said when I started getting bigger because of balance.

[Anonymous]

Yes, I did barre until my final week. I was more into HIIT before but didn’t feel up to that and barre was perfect to stay active.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've been biking/walking for 30-60 minutes daily. Any other bikers? If so, when did you stop biking? My ob-gyn just said when I started getting bigger because of balance.

Why do OBs say crap like this?!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've been biking/walking for 30-60 minutes daily. Any other bikers? If so, when did you stop biking? My ob-gyn just said when I started getting bigger because of balance.

Cyclist here -- if I could do pregnancy all over again, I'd bike the whole time. (Would just keep it to non-road trails/bike paths for the later stages, maybe, to avoid car accident risk.) My OB told me whatever makes me most comfortable but I let a nosy medical-professional relative pressure me into giving up the bike at 14 weeks. It seriously depressed me and (no exaggeration) is a reason I stopped at one kid!