Cycling & pregnancy

Zardoz said:

The good news is that Mrs Z is expecting :-)

The bad news is that this will affect our cycling plans :-(

Has anyone has experience of cycling & exercise through pregnancy?
Would be grateful for some comments & links

Not personally ;-)

However when Mrs B was 6 months pregnant with our first daughter we
spent a fortnight touring in the Pyrenees. 18 months later we spent an
idyllic three weeks wild-camping in Corsica with new daughter on the
kiddie-seat. Said youngster, is now an ingrained cyclist having done the
E2E at 14 and raced and toured extensively.
It has been roughly the same with the other children too, although son
presently prefers Games Workshop LOTR :-(

No doubt some of the fairer sex will come along soon with some more answers.

John B

JohnB said:

It has been roughly the same with the other children too, although
son presently prefers Games Workshop LOTR :-(

Warhammer over here.

Quoted message said:

No doubt some of the fairer sex will come along soon with some more

answers.

Becka and Myra?

--
Dave...

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Would be grateful for some comments & links

http://groups.google.co.uk/advanced_group_search?hl=en

Put uk.rec.cycling into the Newsgroup box and you will find much
discussion a year or two ago.

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Zardoz said:

The good news is that Mrs Z is expecting :-)

The bad news is that this will affect our cycling plans :-(

Has anyone has experience of cycling & exercise through pregnancy?
Would be grateful for some comments & links

Ta.

We're just had our third on Dec 9th. My wife was cycling until the day
before as she found this more comfortable than walking.

She asked at one her prenatal clinic appointments whether cycling was
safe in late pregnancy and was told she shouldn't cycle "in case she
fell off!". <Insert H*lm*t joke here>

We asked the consultant looking after her for advice and were told that
as long as she was not uncomforatable there was no reason why she should
not cycle even in late pregnancy.

Hope this helps. If Mrs Z would like to chat with Mrs H the email
address above works.

Julesh

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Quoted message said:

JohnB said:

It has been roughly the same with the other children too, although
son presently prefers Games Workshop LOTR :-(

Warhammer over here.

Quoted message said:

No doubt some of the fairer sex will come along soon with some more
answers.

Becka and Myra?

Myra answered here: url:http://www.myra-simon.com/myra/bike/pregnancy.html

Unsurprisingly, neither of them post here much since the birth.

A

dkahn400 said:

JohnB said:

It has been roughly the same with the other children too, although
son presently prefers Games Workshop LOTR :-(

Warhammer over here.

Don't you just hate it when you walk into the sitting room and hear that
dreaded crunch under the cleats...

....and you've flattened a Warg Rider or a Horde of Archaon [1]

[1] while son is into LOTR, 10 yr old daughter is just taking up Warhammer.

John B

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Becka and Myra?

Trouble is the little trouble arrives and Mum has better things to do than
post here :~(

Both are missed.

T

Ambrose Nankivell said:

Unsurprisingly, neither of them post here much since the birth.

Do you suppose they've found something else to do? :-)

--
Dave...

JohnB said:

Don't you just hate it when you walk into the sitting room and
hear that dreaded crunch under the cleats...

...and you've flattened a Warg Rider or a Horde of Archaon [1]

I don't have that problem luckily. The Space Marines, Blood Angels and
Necrons are either in their boxes or on the table, er... battle field.
--
Dave...

Zardoz said:

The good news is that Mrs Z is expecting :-)

The bad news is that this will affect our cycling plans :-(

Has anyone has experience of cycling & exercise through pregnancy?
Would be grateful for some comments & links

With Child 1, Mrs NR (not a very keen cyclist, usually) was cycling
right up until the day she phoned me (at the pub). IIRC, she'd cycled to
the farm down the road for some strawberries. PYO strawberries, it
should be noted. Towards the end she was complaining a bit that her legs
couldn't go round properly but she persevered.

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She asked at one her prenatal clinic appointments whether cycling was
safe in late pregnancy and was told she shouldn't cycle "in case she
fell off!". <Insert H*lm*t joke here>

I am told that body armour for women comes with bumps in the
appropriate places. Adding a large third bump might be interesting.

--
David Hansen, Edinburgh | PGP email preferred-key number F566DA0E
I will always explain revoked keys, unless the UK government
prevents me by using the RIP Act 2000.

my wife cycled daily up until a week or so before both of ours popped
out. She only stopped because there was too much ice and snow on the
road (Dec '81 and Jan '85) - it was difficult to walk on the pavements
as well

Zardoz said:

The good news is that Mrs Z is expecting :-)

The bad news is that this will affect our cycling plans :-(

Has anyone has experience of cycling & exercise through pregnancy?
Would be grateful for some comments & links

Ta.

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Zardoz said:

The good news is that Mrs Z is expecting :-)

The bad news is that this will affect our cycling plans :-(

Has anyone has experience of cycling & exercise through pregnancy?
Would be grateful for some comments & links

Ta.

Best to transfer to a recumbent for the actual birth.
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Martin Bulmer

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Quoted message said:

The good news is that Mrs Z is expecting :-)
The bad news is that this will affect our cycling plans :-(

Tandem, trailer, carry on regardless ;-)

Congrats

Guy
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"then came ye chavves, theyre cartes girded wyth candels
blue, and theyre beastes wyth straynge horn-lyke thyngs
onn theyre arses that theyre fartes be herde from myles
around." Chaucer, the Sheppey Tales

Julesh said:

We asked the consultant looking after her for advice and were told that
as long as she was not uncomforatable there was no reason why she should
not cycle even in late pregnancy.

One of my rowing friends found her very upright bike easier than her
mountainbike - more room for a belly.

(that same friend stopped rowing at some point but kept on kayaking until
almost the end - again a less folded position)

Roos