badminton at over 8 months pregnant????

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I just wondered for all you ladies who have had babies, do you think there is any point in me booking badminton tickets for the showjumping day?? I am due on 25th May, and SJ is on the 1st May. It is my first baby and I feel fab at the minute, but not sure how comfortable I will feel sitting in those seats for hours, no matter how much I love watching the SJ!
I normally go and camp there so would hate watching it on tv, but should I let me head rule my heart and take the sensible option.
I could always take the baby to Burghley and get my 4* fix there instead!
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Personally i wouldn't want to be going if i was that far gone, but then i probably wouldn't want to leave the house incase baby came early.
Could be a good story to tell if baby did come early and you gave birth at Badminton
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I once dragged my sister round Badminton at about the same stage. She seemed fine, she walked the whole XC course.
 
Can't see any reason why not to go (unless there are problems with the pregnancy).
Its much better to be active and walking.
 
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I went to a Take That concert a couple of years ago and the start was really delayed... when they finally came on stage they said it was because a woman in the audience had gone into labour
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I would book them. You would be able to sell them easily enough, surely, if you don't feel like it nearer the time?
 
Hi blondy
You'll be fine, you don't have to sit still the whole time and you'll be glad of something fun for you to do when you get bigger. It will be a lot more difficult with the babe in tow. I drove 150miles to holiday when 8 months pregnant and just had to make a few extra pitstops for loo visits. Take your maternity notes with you and relax. There's hospitals that know how to deliver babies all over the country! I was teaching up until being one week overdue in the middle of December so don't think you can do nothing when you get bigger.
 
Ho ho, this post has brought back memories! I went into labour just before setting out to go to ladies' day at Ascot. This was five weeks early, but luckily got a car all the way back home from our hotel (seventy miles away). Waters broke when I got into my house, so straight back out again to the hospital (while on phone to midwife in hysterics) and baby born naturally exactly four hours later. Sounds terrible doesn't it, but baby born healthy and is now a noisy two and a half year old. And it does make me laugh, but perhaps I have a strange sense of humour. So my advice would be take your maternity notes with you and be prepared! If you feel dodgy perhaps stay home! I thank god that I didn't go to the races (I was in two minds because the contractions didn't really hurt). I would have been the very embarrassed lady in a large hat giving birth while the Queen's carriage went up the race course. Definately BBC news material!!
 
See how you feel, I was shopping around Sainsburys on the day my baby was due, on my own. I was fine. However went into labour that night. PHewwwwwww
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And book yourself into the members enclosure (about £12/ticket iirc) - easy access members only loos and somewhere a little more comfy to sit, get a drink/snack etc and space to walk around.
 
Definatley go! If you start letting the kiddie-winks stop you doing stuff now you'll be barely able to leave the house for the next 18 years!!

I was lunging my elder daughter's pony, on my own, actually in labour (early labour but still with pains!) on my baby's due date, after coming back from visiting my Dad and debating (with myself, no less!) if my back pains could be the start of labour! I also picked my elder daughter up from nursery after the lunging and promptly dropped her off again the next morning with new babbie in tow!!
Am super woman don't ya know!!
 
I would definitely book the tickets!

My baby is due today - I am at home with no car (broken) and SO BORED I am tearing my hair out. I'm considering going to the yard in the lorry as I am missing my boy. If I had a Badminton ticket and it was on today, I would be there! At that stage it will be lovely to have something to look forward to.

Some shops (John Lewis and Tesco and a few others) give you lots of vouchers and free baby stuff if you go into labour in the shop - maybe hang around the Devoucoux stand, jumping up and down?

Apparently only 25% of babies are born on or before the due date, and I am sure there is only a tiny proportion born at 8 months. Check where the local hospitals are, just in case, and have a bag with a few essentials. If you feel anything like I do you'll really enjoy the outing, and if you're active all the way through your pregnancy like most horsy folk, you'll still be fine for a bit of walking. And on the plus side if anything does happen then there will be loads of paramedics / St Johns nearby.

Good luck! And huge congratulations.
 
go for it, i went into labour on a show ground with number 2, so we left no 1 & the dog with some friends watching the tent & pottered off to hospital. my OH picked up son, dog & tent/kit the following morning.
by the time you get to 8 months you are bored of being big & just want them to hurry up and get here so any distraction is a welcome one.
do remmber your notes as somemone else said & unlss you are close to home your hospital bag & bubs carseat.

good luck with pregnancy & birth (im due to have no 3 end of march)
 
I went all the way around Blair XC on foot - up all of the hills - when I was 2 weeks overdue with a date to be taken in for a c-section two days later on the Monday. No sign of baby until the Monday, however.. Means his birthday is usually on Blair weekend which really b*ggers up staying there for that weekend!
 
my daughter was a week late and i was sick every day of my pregnancy so i never really had much choice about going many places cos i always needed to know where the nearest puke points were
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i would say book tickets and make sure you have a very reliable driver with you (just in case) and maternity notes.
 
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