OMFG!!!!! i nearly had a heart attack today....

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there is a girl on my yard with a youngster and an older horse. youngster has a sharer as the girl is pregnant (6 months now) the other one, the older is great in the field but phycotic on the road. i have not really seen her for a few months as he OH is feeding etc for her. but today i saw here


RIDING



now i know i know you would think walking or whatever maybe? nope she was cantering over a JUMP! :eek::eek:
now i am not a doctor and i have never had a baby but, and correct me if i am wrong but i dont think she should be doing that at 6 months pregnant.
all i could think about is her falling off and hurting the baby :(:eek::eek:

i was stumped. i asked her if she should be riding like that while pregnant and she said that she was fine and not to worry, than carried on jumping and cantering about :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::o:eek::o:o:eek:

please please someone tell me that she is nuts or i am over reacting and she is fine riding. i nearly had a friggin heart attack when she was jumping !!!!

xxx
 
Hmmmm - I hacked out at 6mnths pregnant, but certainly wouldn't have jumped. But then it is as easy to fall off out hacking as it is jumping......?!
 
My friend rode up to about 7.5 months pregnant, including cantering. She didn't jump so much as she said it was uncomfortable but it was far comfier to canter than trot. Her midwife (or whoever it is you see when preggers) said it was fine to carry on doing what her body was used to.
 
Its her own personal decision and its really nothing to do with you! There is just as much, if not more, risk of her losing the baby whilst driving or falling in the street.

I would have been very offended if you'd made that comment to me if I was pregnant.

Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't do it myself, but it is her choice.
 
Everyone has a different opinion on this ;)
Some people ride for as long as they can, some people ride for a few months and then stop, and some don't ride at all. Seems to depend on the individual. Right now I reckon I'd ride up to a certain point, but having never been pregnant I'll admit my opinion might change completely when I get to that stage!
 
flamehead said:
Its her own personal decision and its really nothing to do with you! There is just as much, if not more, risk of her losing the baby whilst driving or falling in the street.

I would have been very offended if you'd made that comment to me if I was pregnant.

Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't do it myself, but it is her choice.
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wow wow wow for a start i was worried she has had problems with the pregnancy and has been crying on my shoulder endless amounts of time in the first few months she was pregnant and second i didnt go up to her all guns blazing and shout and ball i just asked if she should given the fact there have been problems (as a concerned friend) i know people ride when preg my mum and my sister both did. but i didnt think jumping was such a good idea.
i agree it is her choice she can do what she wants xx
and she carried on ridding while i was there. and spoke to me after and i did ask if i had offended her and she said no.
 
Well it's a very individual decision. I am 5 months pregnant and still riding, but I am only hacking my more reliable horse, although schooling both (I don't jump anyway so not an issue with me). Unfortunately there are risks with almost everything you do in pregnancy, from driving a car, to lifting a bag, to eating mayo, to sitting next to someone with the flu on the train, so people just have to decide what they are comfortable with.
 
it's her choice. iirc Mary King went around the Europeans on the British Team while quite far along in her first pregnancy.
if the person in question still feels fine riding (it seems to adversely affect the balance of certain ladies, but not others) and trusts their horse, and wants to do it, i think it is totally their business.
 
I stopped after my first appt with my consultant. He said that horseriding was one of the few activities he told people to give up for the duration of their pregnance due to the high risk of miscarriage if you fall and the potential for any horse to 'surprise'. I trusted him so took his advice - he knows a lot more than I do.
 
The only horse related accident I had when pregnant with my twins sixteen years ago was the day I missed the top step of the living in the wagon at a show and fell on my bump!! I was safer riding than on my feet!! Drove the wagon to shows right up until seven days before I had them. Getting too close to the steering wheel and having to shift to press in the clutch was an issue too.............!
My consultant said as long as I was comfortable riding to continue as long as I wanted, however he would not recommend that someone took it up as a new hobby when preggers!
 
I think your friend is lucky to have someone that cares about her and her baby, but it is everyone's individual choice as to what risks they take and where to draw the line. As others have mentioned already there seems to be an endless list of things you are not supposed to do when pregnant - many of which are health and safety going into overdrive IMO.

Personally I evented until I was about 4 months pregnant with my daughter - that was until I could no longer get into my body protector, I felt my fitness starting to go and the season was over, but I continued hacking until I was about 8 months by which time getting on and off was not so easy and I couldn't manage to do even the shortest circuit without needing the loo!
 
I didn't even know I was pregnant until I was 13 weeks. At that time I was working and living at a riding school. I was riding including cantering and jumping until I was 6 months. I admit I stopped riding my own very green and unpredictable mare. I just couldn't trust her enough but I rode other horses until my bump interfered with my balance! I was mucking out the day before I went into hospital to be induced! It is a very very personal choice. As a concerned friend I understand where you are coming from. My partner was a nervous wreck every time I sat on a horse, but he understood my choice that my baby was an extension of me. Not the end of me as a horsewoman. As an aside my 3 year old son just got his first Shetland pony!
 
I had my last days hunting when i was 7 months gone.I was too uncomfy to continue.I think i only carried on as long as i did as i wanted to ride at my meet.
It made interesting viewing as i had to get on and off using a landrover bonnet!!!:D
 
Brandy said:
My friend rode up to about 7.5 months pregnant, including cantering. She didn't jump so much as she said it was uncomfortable but it was far comfier to canter than trot. Her midwife (or whoever it is you see when preggers) said it was fine to carry on doing what her body was used to.
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Exactly what my midwife told me, if you are used to doing something you can carry on doing it, I rode right up until I was a few weeks off both times I was pregnant, but never did anything too hectic and certainly wouldn't have been jumping.
 
i am six months pregnant and would not appreciate someone telling me whether i should or shouldn't be riding.

I am not a stupid person. I have listened to advice, thought about it, weighed up the pros and cons and risks and made my decision based on that. For someone to see me, make a snap judgement and tell me what i should or shouldn't be doing is very insulting whether they mean well or not.
 
Its not something I'm not comfortable seeing to be honest, having been with a friend who lost her daughter at 20 weeks after a fall from her horse. She has never forgiven herself and its been awful seeng herself tear herself apart over it.
 
I rode out with a lady who rode her stallion until she was nearly due - cantering and popping natural jumps on our hacks. I think she found cantering more comfortable than trotting, and the only reason she stopped riding before birth was because the bump ended up too big for sitting in the saddle! ;)

Each to their own :) Me, I can imagine I become a neurotic mother and wrap myself in cotton wool in case I injure the baby :o I'm going to be a mumsnet mum! :eek:
 
I rode my horse right upto the day before i had my daughter but with my son i was so huge and uncomfortable (he was a big one at 10lbs 4oz) i had to stop at 4 months. I made a risk assessment on both occassions and only did what i felt i was capable of so didn't jump but schooled and hacked out.

Got a couple of comments but it didn't stop me! Its upto the individual.
 
MrsMozart said:
Just out of interest, to those who jump when pregnant, do they have one of their own people to hand, just in case something goes wrong?
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she had no one with her, her OH dropped her off and helped her get on and then left her to it. she had been there over 30 mins alone when i had got there.
and she was to ring him to be picked up when finished
 
im not judging her or whatever for riding if she feels the horse is safe and she feels safe then it is up to her although like i said in the original post every time she popped the jump my heart skipped 20 beats.
i just asked if she thought she was safe enough and due to her probs the best thing to do jumping wise. (they were not small jumps and like i said im not a doctor or been preg so i dont know. i was just concerned for a friend and bump.
thank you all for the posts i didnt realise so many people rode when having a baby xxx
 
Yorkshire dumpling said:
she had no one with her, her OH dropped her off and helped her get on and then left her to it. she had been there over 30 mins alone when i had got there.
and she was to ring him to be picked up when finished
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That's the bit that would bother me.

I don't agree with riding whilst pregnant - my view and my perogative to have it :).

But, I can't stop people, it's their choice.

However, whilst all of us are ready and willing to deal with a fallen rider, I'm not sure I for one, could cope with a fallen pregnant rider if it were to result in the start of a miscarriage/early labour. I would also be pee'd off that someone had effectively put me in that position.
 
My midwife told me that Winston Churchill's mum was hunting when she went into labour, and that she had no concerns with me riding as long as I was comfortable. I competed until six months and carried on hacking until I went into labour with my first. The downside is that my muscles and ligaments were very toned and made labour longer. With my second I only rode until about five months as it was a twin pregnancy, however one was ectopic, and my scar was stretching and very painful.
 
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