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Hi guys... this isn't really fitness related, but I'm definitely noticing a little swelling now ... not enough to worry about, and my bp is staying pretty low... but just enough to make my rings tight at times during the day (first thing in the morning and sometimes before bed)... and my feet...

I wish I knew! I'm all pasty white with purple varicose veins all down my legs... ewwww yuck! :) susan

Thanks, Kris! I'll check it out! susan

Congratulations, Cathe :0) Enjoy every second and get lots of rest :) Susan

You crack me up :) I honestly think that most of the others really believe that it isn't safe or something... and I wonder how many OBs really encourage their patients to exercise... my OB is very supportive of the idea, but she never offered the suggestion herself... and when I was pregnant...

You should definitely take this one to your OB... If they are throwing around words like "high-risk," then you should definitely discuss exercise with your OB. If he/she says that exercise is okay, but that you should take it easy, remember that there are a lot of exercise options... water...

If you are keeping hydrated, not doing anything that hurts, feel good doing it, then your workout routine is definitely okay. Have I mentioned how grateful I am to have this board?? I'm on a due in May 2002 board (babiestoday.com), and can you believe that there is only ONE woman (and we...

I have nothing more to add... ... to what the others said, but it looks like we're both at 34 weeks (I'll be 35 on Monday)! When is your due date? I'm expecting baby #2 on May 20th. Actually, I did think of one thing... if your practitioner says your blood pressure is fine, you might try...

What you are feeling is very normal. Pregnancy in general can knock you for a loop, but the 1st trimester is usually a time of exhaustion... I'd say that, if you want to stick with the videos, then you could either take your overall intensity down -- take out power moves and repeaters, for...

Try not to worry... The baby is so small at 10-11 wks, and it very well may be that the baby was nearer your back or facing a different direction, so the doppler couldn't pick up the heartbeat. Several of the women on my Due in May board didn't hear heartbeats until after 12 weeks. Actually...

Hee hee -- I was under some pregnancy-induced illusion that I looked smaller lately, but then I got like 5 comments in one day (several from the moms in my prenatal class LOL) that I looked so much bigger... like I was going to pop :) Life's little happy times... I had an OB appt this morning...

Hi Hazel, I'm mostly a SAHM, and I tell you, I am always, always busy. I do teach two prenatal classes a week (will add two stroller classes this summer as well), and I have just begun to freelance from home, but I find that, aside from that, mothering, working out at the YMCA, doing regular...

Congratulations :) I love the name!! Take care of you and get some sleep! Susan

Congratulations! Enjoy every minute :) I have days where I feel like I've been run over by a truck, too... but I'm only 34 wks. along LOL... not postpartum yet! Just take it easy and allow yourself to relax... no sense jumping back into the exercise routine until your body tells you it's...

you're probably right... You're probably right... it makes me wonder, though, how many pregnant women freak out the first time that they take their pulse during exercise and realize that they're at 150 or 160 even, y'know? Another thing that I'd forgotten about was that in the pregnancy book...

It is amazing to me that so many obstetricians are still giving out the 140 heartrate and other outdated info to their patients about exercise. One of my loyal students (she started back in November & is now in her 3rd trimester) said tonight that her OB, upon learning that she was an...

The heartrate thing is so deceiving, isn't it? When I do the elliptical trainer at the YMCA, there is a heartrate monitor... so many times when I feel like I'm hardly working at all, my heartrate is over 140... and on other days I feel like I'm really working, and the monitor shows that I'm...

RE: Whopper with cheese LOL -- now THAT would be a combination LOLOL :) Thank you for your nice comment -- that was really sweet :) Susan

Oh... I was baptized a number of times LOL :) Aaron got me a few times during diapering or bathing when he was younger. Nothing like getting peed on when you're all dressed up/made up and ready to go somewhere... he usually managed to get me right in the eye! LOL susan

Welcome to the blue club :) You'll love being a mom for a boy... I do (good thing, since I'm having another boy this time :) So glad to hear that he's so healthy! Congratulations! :) Susan