MSE Pregnancy Club IX

Nicki · 20 April 2009 at 12:27PM

Sami_Bee wrote: »

Good lord DID is his dad a giraffe?
I'm just gonna peel a Satsoooooma for Chris (yey he can say it now even if it does sound a bit funny!) then I think we'll leave the house - how exciting

God, I need to read things more carefully :eek:

I read this post as saying that you were going to expel a satsuma and thought that was taking the childbirth preparations just a tad far!

Sami_Bee · 20 April 2009 at 12:37PM

Damzel_In_Distress wrote: »

His dad is 6ft1 or 2 ...I forget ...And i am 5ft8 so neither of us are short.

Was just looking at the things they gave me at the hospital the other day and the baby measured 10.9 cm at 13 + 3 weeks ...Is that normal?

did they say what they measured as the only thing I can find that may be ten of anything is femur length is about 10mm at 13 weeks
average crown - rump length at 13+3 weeks is 72mm

Nicki - LOL!!

skintchick · 20 April 2009 at 12:39PM

Nicki wrote: »

I like yoga as well. I didn't think that a yoga teacher would take a complete beginner on in a general class if they were pregnant though? It's different if they have some experience albeit with a different teacher, but given how differently the body moves and reacts when pregnant, surely starting as a newbie in a general class would be a recipe for injury? And all the ante-natal yoga classes round me won't let you start until you are at least 14 weeks pregnant. In fact, now that the kids are back at school, and I'm past that mark, that's one of the things I'm just about to get into, as I really enjoyed it with my first two pregnancies, and it was a really good way to meet other expectant mums in a fun setting. I have no idea whether it helped with the birth or not though, as have no experience of giving birth without the benefit of ante-natal yoga beforehand! I suspect it did though, if only in terms of staying relaxed and reasonably supple throughout the pregnancy.

I imagine it depends on the teacher and how far gone you are. If you're very early on then you don;t have to do anything differently in terms of poses.

I had a friend who did pregnancy yoga classes and she has shown me some of what they did, and it isn;t yoga! So maybe the special calsses are just a weird mix of stuff vaguely based on yoga and that's why you have to be more careful?

Certainly, I'd expect any good yoga teacher to be able to adapt a class for a pregnant lady, and to watch her and make sure she isn;t overextending - my teacher is contantly telling me cos I was the bendiest in the class and forget I can;t really do that any more right now!

But my class is small - usually only five of us, and if you were in a big class you could get lost, which is why I wouldn;t touch classes run at a gym or leisure centre, as I don;t feel those teachers are going to be able to give enough time to each person.

My teacher is happy to have pregnant ladies join classes, and she's excellent at accommodating them, even if they haven;t done yoga before, although I think if you were very far gone she might only give you very gentle things to do.

The onyl thing to really worry about is overstretching hte muscles, and avoiding most inversions and anything that engages the abdominals (like plank) but I still do downdog and the balances, and as well as a lot of the twists although I go the opposite way to everyone else so I'm only using my shoulder and back muscles rather than my tummy ones, and I avoid squashing the bump that way too.

In fact, I do pretty much everything, and when we lie down on our backs to relax I lie along a bolster so I'm not flat - my teacher arranges stuff round me, including blocks, which I use now for lunges and for trichonasna (sp?) so I don;t bend too far in that pose (although I used to happily put my hand flat on the floor).

I can see what you're saying, but I don;t think it would be 'a recipe for injury' if you went to a good teacher in a small class setting, and I definitely think it would be safer than doing a DVD at home with no teacher.

Sami - I have just been to the dentist and on the wall there was a poster and I thought 'why is Sami on the wall? How odd.' Then I realised your avvy is a real character from a cartoon!

aless02 · 20 April 2009 at 12:45PM

Nicki wrote: »

I like yoga as well. I didn't think that a yoga teacher would take a complete beginner on in a general class if they were pregnant though? It's different if they have some experience albeit with a different teacher, but given how differently the body moves and reacts when pregnant, surely starting as a newbie in a general class would be a recipe for injury?

Yes, but if you're only 5 weeks or so (like me), I don't see how you'd be moving differently yet! But of course there's a difference between someone who never exercises/completely out of shape versus someone who is generally is good physical condition - I don't see how someone who is in generally good physical condition (including flexibility!) who happens to be in early pregnancy would be much different than your average yoga newbie.

BUt then again, i've never taken yoga so maybe there's mysterious moves and stuff I'm not aware of that wouldn't work even in very early pregnancy?

Sami_Bee · 20 April 2009 at 12:51PM

skintchick wrote: »

Sami - I have just been to the dentist and on the wall there was a poster and I thought 'why is Sami on the wall? How odd.' Then I realised your avvy is a real character from a cartoon!

:rotfl: My avvy is Edna from the Incredibles pixar film - I'm sure in a few years you'll be up on all these things - even if you try to avoid them they get in there some how

DID - thought I'd give you some prams to think about coz u said you like modern ones and or bright/whacky ones (yes I know I'm a geek!)
http://www.kiddicare.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/searchresults_0_Price%7C1_primary_10751_set_-1__10001?Ntt=xplory
http://www.leebruss.eu/
http://www.silvercross.co.uk/our-range/pushchairs-strollers/dazzle/pumpkin/

Krystaltips · 20 April 2009 at 12:54PM

Everything softens up in early pregnancy though, it would be very easy to overstretch something without realising...

Sami_Bee · 20 April 2009 at 12:59PM

oh Skinty - you know that muscle separating thing you talked about... which way do they separate horizontal or vertical?

Nicki · 20 April 2009 at 1:03PM

aless02 wrote: »

Yes, but if you're only 5 weeks or so (like me), I don't see how you'd be moving differently yet! But of course there's a difference between someone who never exercises/completely out of shape versus someone who is generally is good physical condition - I don't see how someone who is in generally good physical condition (including flexibility!) who happens to be in early pregnancy would be much different than your average yoga newbie.

BUt then again, i've never taken yoga so maybe there's mysterious moves and stuff I'm not aware of that wouldn't work even in very early pregnancy?

Like Krystaltips says. In the first few weeks of pregnancy your body produces a hormone which causes your muscles to relax more. This means that it is really easy to hyper-extend and cause damage to muscles and to joints. Yoga is all about moving your body into poses which challenge but don't hurt you, and holding them for a period of time. The effect of pregnancy would be to make it very easy to get into a pose which could lead to an injury, but to mask the discomfort of this until later. It won't do the baby any harm, but it could lead to you having a nasty sports injury which would linger after the baby is born. If you were an old hand, you'd have a better idea as to how far it was safe for you to stretch, and would in fact probably pull back a bit from this, as Skintchick has advised she does.

Being already fit doesn't matter. I was a regular gym goer when pregnant with my first child (min 3 times a week often more) but as soon as I was pregnant, the trainer at the gym was very clear with me that I needed to be careful on for example the abductor and adductor machines, chest press, etc and limit my range of movement to less than I had previously done, as I would otherwise run the risk of a nasty injury for the same reasons.