Pregnancy Question

[EvilTwin]

Pregnancy question
My 24 yo daughter is newly pregnant and wondering about riding during her pregnancy. She'll see her MD next week, but was asking in the meantime, and her surgery nurse mom didn't have an answer. Anyone have info?

[snapdragen]

Well, a woman in my bike club rode up until the day she delivered.

[Lise]

I think there was a thread about this a few months ago--you could do a search for it. Congratulations to the whole family!

[susiej]

Congratulations!

Riding really helped my morning sickness, if I could talk myself through the exhaustion and get moving.

My OB said to ride as long as I wanted. A friend's said to stop at 17 weeks (I'd get another opinion). Another friend is training for a triathlon that will occur a month before her due date. Even she will be surprised if she competes, but she won't stop training until her body tells her to stop (still going at seven months). She says the maternity bike shorts here on TE are wonderful.

(And having some experience with a child bike seat, I'd suggest a child trailer. They are safer if the bike falls, and my husband's feet hit the bottom of the child seat as he pedals. The baby makes brrmmm brrmmm noises in delight whenever he's in the bike seat.)

[Crankin]

If you're already well trained, your body will tell you when to stop. But, you shouldn't be heroic. I did hard core aerobics through the 8th month of my 1st preganancy, back when this was very unusual. But, at the very end, I started walking and swimming. I was back doing my regular workout after 3 weeks post partum. With my second one, we decided to go on a family ride one day (I was not a regular rider, but did go out once in awhile). To make a long story short, my husband stopped in front of me, with the toddler on the back of his bike, in a seat. I thought they were crashing, stopped hard and the old fashioned down tube shifters stuck into my stomach. Five days later I was in early labor. It all worked out after 6 weeks confined to my house, but I shouldn't have been doing a sport I wasn't that familiar with. Though, that was the kid that became a racer...

Robyn