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Exercise during pregnancy
BillieTheBot
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Besides walking and swimming, I was just wondering what kind of exercises I can do whilst pregnant?
I'm not overly keen on going for walks alone because I'm too paranoid about anyone that comes near me.
I'm not overly keen on going for walks alone because I'm too paranoid about anyone that comes near me.
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Cycling too, as in on an exercise bike, I did that for a while but had to stop when I got SPD.
hope it helps you a little. happy exercising lol
They make alot of pregnant work out videos too... if you'd be interested in that.
anything low impact should be ok.
With being a bloke you may not know but when it comes to sex or jogging can you actually feel the baby go up and down inside you if you know what i mean?
I never noticed anyway. Mind was generally otherwise preoccupied at those times. Tbh I think the motion sends them to sleep anyway
Why would i be? I've never been pregnant so it was just a thought that crossed my mind.
Thanks for answering Suzy
Swimming, aquafit classes etc, walking, pilates etc are the most widely recommended and safest. But as has been said, anything low impact at all.
I'm going to start aquanatal classes when I get back off my hols when I'll be 26 weeks. I need to try tone my legs up abit though because all this doing nothing and eating more is making me quite flabby!
I'm not overly keen on sex since getting pregnant, it's hard to get baby out of my head and can be off putting.
Young mums
:eek:
I've heard of ectopic pregnancy but that's a new one on me
BTW You aren't the first to think like that, you won't be the last. Bottom line is that, unless you have been advised otherwise, sex is perfectly safe (including female orgasm if you are lucky enough
Why are you eating more? Your not supposed to incrase what you eat whilst pregnant except for in the last 3 months when you need to increase the ammount by 200 calories a day which is like 2 slices of toast.
On a lighter note you can probably do like leg toning excersises and stuff i'm sure that's low impact as for most of them your toning rather than jumping around.
If id have eaten the same amount in pregnancy as I do not pregnant or breastfeeding, then I would have been absolutly ravenous, sick and weak.
While in THEORY you dont need to up your food intake by that much, in REALITY you do. growing a baby is incredibly tiring and hard on the body, and most people end up eating more to try and stave off the fatigue and the sickness.
You have to wonder how much of that is mental state though, wouldn't you say? Given your noted concerns about sex at the moment...
Still, so long as you still enjoy it - even if not as much.
As a bloke, of course, I should say that many of us (me included) find pregnant partners veeeeery sexy. Can say why. What this means though is that we still want to show you that you are desirable even though you may not feel like it... sorry!
As far as I knew we just had to increase slightly throughout pregnancy, not just the last trimester anyway?
As you said SCC, you need the extra food for other reasons, at the beginning sickness being a main one. I keep a small tub of dried cereal in my bag with me for when I get abit hungry (which leads to sickness) or feel sick any time during the day.
As for sex, I do still enjoy it but I think my partner as well as me is slightly concerned about positioning etc too as he doesn't want to 'squash' the baby! And I can't for the life of me figure out this 'spooning' malarky!
Trust me, three kids & one miscarriage means that I've had plenty of opportunity to work that out