Hi. I'm 14 weeks pregnant now. I stopped going to my usual yoga class for the first 12 weeks but am keen to start again. I've tried a few pregnancy yoga classes, but the emphasis is all on the pregnancy and labour and not so much on the yoga, and tbh I find it boring and stressful. This is pg no. 3 for me, one DC and one miscarriage (last year).
I've been doing yoga for years and just want to carry on my practice without it being made into a special 'nurturing', 'bonding' time. My usual class is very mixed in terms of ability, and the teacher is very careful to check health issues at the start of each class, very accepting of limits, and offers lots of different levels of each pose as a matter of course. I have had PGP in previous pregnancies but have been doing a lot of stuff to prepare this time and it hasn't come on beyond little twinges at the end of very sedentary days. I know what to avoid and what I can do with the PGP as well.
I'd just like to hear what others think - did you carry on with your usual class and just take it easier? Or do you think I have to subject myself to all the preggo stuff this time? I am low risk, and the previous mc was a blighted ovum, nothing physical to do with my carrying the baby (in fact my body held onto it for 12 weeks before giving up). Just not sure I can take another six months of no classes or classes where we all have to connect with our babies incessantly and praise ex class members who 'did well and had a natural birth without pain relief' (grr, like anyone chooses an emcs). The baby is INSIDE MY BODY, FGS, how much more connected can you get? Sorry, rant over. Do you see why I need yoga?
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philbee · 14/10/2012 11:00
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