Folks always ask during your pregnancy "HOW ARE YOU FEELING?!?!?!?!" as if you should generally be expected to feel horrible.
Right now at 18 weeks I'm feeling pretty good. Early in pregnancy I had some pretty monumental heartburn but at this point I made some changes (no sugar whatsoever, no seltzer) and the heartburn has gone from 30 tums a day (no exaggeration) to 0-2 Tums a day, which is a win! My earlier two pregnancies I think I self-soothed with Seltzer and Ice Cream (in lieu of wine) and did permanent damage to my esophagus. I was determined to not do any further damage this time around, so this is a workable solution I can live with. The plus side of all those Tums? the kids probably have really, really strong bones.
Weeks 4-15 I was just all the time tired. I think mentally you sort of say to yourself "hey I'm not all that pregnant, just maybe a LITTLE pregnant" but the reality is that your body is just doing a ton of work building placenta, making more blood, shifting up the cocktail of hormones pulsing through you... Which is why you're so tired, all the time. Like the urge to take a 3 hour nap EVERY DAY. I like napping but even that's a lot for me. Plus, someones gotta watch the kiddos during all those naps.
So now I'm not napping so much, which I think @Delish would say is good. As I mentioned earlier, I've gained about 4lbs so far, if I hadn't given up sugar entirely then it might be closer to 10.
Riding lately... we suddenly lost our nanny in August (not going into details here) so our childcare & work arrangements have been thrown into flux. Not to mention THE DOG who is great, but is sort of like a third child that you can throw in a cage for half the day and not get arrested. Oh and the kids had birthdays and started school. Long story short, I haven't been riding as much as I would like but not because of being pregnant, but because of life.
I haven't had to make any bike adjustments yet, although I'm not riding MTB any more (I'm a huge fall risk even on my best day). The road bike is starting to feel uncomfortable, my thighs bang into my belly. Probably not much longer I'll be riding that bike.
On Sat I did take out the CX bike for 90 minutes on gravel in 90+ deg heat. It was maybe a bad decision, as I was wrecked for the rest of the day. Not so much the type of wrecked like you feel after a big race, or after an especially long or hard ride, or how you feel after a Bikram yoga session, but wrecked like how you feel when your entire body is fatigued and you just want to sleep. Legs and lungs were fine, if slow.
@Delish was super awesome to let me lounge for the rest of the day but the reality of having 2 kids & being pregnant is that you don't really have that luxury most days.
Our new nanny starts Monday and I'm hoping I can get back into a rhythm of riding during the week once she's settled in.
Closing out with a belly photo, since that seems to be the thing that pregnant ladies do.
Compare contrast with this photo from pregnancy #1
Right now at 18 weeks I'm feeling pretty good. Early in pregnancy I had some pretty monumental heartburn but at this point I made some changes (no sugar whatsoever, no seltzer) and the heartburn has gone from 30 tums a day (no exaggeration) to 0-2 Tums a day, which is a win! My earlier two pregnancies I think I self-soothed with Seltzer and Ice Cream (in lieu of wine) and did permanent damage to my esophagus. I was determined to not do any further damage this time around, so this is a workable solution I can live with. The plus side of all those Tums? the kids probably have really, really strong bones.
Weeks 4-15 I was just all the time tired. I think mentally you sort of say to yourself "hey I'm not all that pregnant, just maybe a LITTLE pregnant" but the reality is that your body is just doing a ton of work building placenta, making more blood, shifting up the cocktail of hormones pulsing through you... Which is why you're so tired, all the time. Like the urge to take a 3 hour nap EVERY DAY. I like napping but even that's a lot for me. Plus, someones gotta watch the kiddos during all those naps.
So now I'm not napping so much, which I think @Delish would say is good. As I mentioned earlier, I've gained about 4lbs so far, if I hadn't given up sugar entirely then it might be closer to 10.
Riding lately... we suddenly lost our nanny in August (not going into details here) so our childcare & work arrangements have been thrown into flux. Not to mention THE DOG who is great, but is sort of like a third child that you can throw in a cage for half the day and not get arrested. Oh and the kids had birthdays and started school. Long story short, I haven't been riding as much as I would like but not because of being pregnant, but because of life.
I haven't had to make any bike adjustments yet, although I'm not riding MTB any more (I'm a huge fall risk even on my best day). The road bike is starting to feel uncomfortable, my thighs bang into my belly. Probably not much longer I'll be riding that bike.
On Sat I did take out the CX bike for 90 minutes on gravel in 90+ deg heat. It was maybe a bad decision, as I was wrecked for the rest of the day. Not so much the type of wrecked like you feel after a big race, or after an especially long or hard ride, or how you feel after a Bikram yoga session, but wrecked like how you feel when your entire body is fatigued and you just want to sleep. Legs and lungs were fine, if slow.
@Delish was super awesome to let me lounge for the rest of the day but the reality of having 2 kids & being pregnant is that you don't really have that luxury most days.
Our new nanny starts Monday and I'm hoping I can get back into a rhythm of riding during the week once she's settled in.
Closing out with a belly photo, since that seems to be the thing that pregnant ladies do.
Compare contrast with this photo from pregnancy #1
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