AppleBon12
Active Member
Hi All,
Bit of a different question this time - am currently 20 weeks pregnant and need help! After seeking advice from midwife and GP I carried on riding after finding out I was pregnant, much to partners disapproval at first but slowly have had to reduce what I am doing with my welsh.
Quick bit of back history for those who don't know I have a 14.3hh welsh mare who I have been working on reschooling/getting fit after buying her from a field (she literally rolled in she was so big). We had just got to the stage where she was starting to use her back, we had introduce grillwork (small fences) and lots of hacking (getting over her fear of large vehicles). Feed wise she was on a handful of fast fibre and Hi-fi good doer, literally as a token feed but have cut this out, she is turned out during the day (cannot turn out overnight now) and has a small haylage net overnight.
With the pregnancy, I have pretty much had to give up schooling and jumping as I find myself physically dying (slightly dramatic but struggling with my own fitness) after a couple of laps of the school. So we have a little girl who loans who comes for lessons twice a week on her to keep up the schooling, my friend jumps her occasionally and I am just sticking to hacking.
The problem I have is she is so full of beans now - hacking yesterday, a nice slow trot round the field with a friend, something spooked her and we shot off across the field, tail between her legs, neck locked to the floor and I literally could not stop. Partner obviously not happy as it is a miracle I managed to stay on, plus this isn't the first time a week or two ago the same thing had happened but I had managed to stop fairly quick. She is not a bolter by any means, usually its pony club kicks and lots of encouragement to keep her going but I literally had no brakes at all just had to brace, pull one rein and pray that I stayed on.
Today, she became very bolshy, pushed me over on the horse walker and took off down the fields. Took me forever to catch her and when I did she was really het up, straight into the paddock and lunged her to get some energy out.
But my problem is I don't know what to do - it feels like all the work I am doing is unravelling and I have a pony that I am now starting to worry about riding because it's unsafe for the baby. Really fed up and feel stuck
On one hand I'm thinking do I just go back to ground work, lots of lunging and free schooling then just let her loaner ride twice a week or do I admit that I need to just stop everything until the baby?
Note: Loaner cannot increase days and finding another loaner is impossible have tried this and all interested were time wasters. Cannot pay instructor to ride as I have been made redundant and money is tight.
Bit of a different question this time - am currently 20 weeks pregnant and need help! After seeking advice from midwife and GP I carried on riding after finding out I was pregnant, much to partners disapproval at first but slowly have had to reduce what I am doing with my welsh.
Quick bit of back history for those who don't know I have a 14.3hh welsh mare who I have been working on reschooling/getting fit after buying her from a field (she literally rolled in she was so big). We had just got to the stage where she was starting to use her back, we had introduce grillwork (small fences) and lots of hacking (getting over her fear of large vehicles). Feed wise she was on a handful of fast fibre and Hi-fi good doer, literally as a token feed but have cut this out, she is turned out during the day (cannot turn out overnight now) and has a small haylage net overnight.
With the pregnancy, I have pretty much had to give up schooling and jumping as I find myself physically dying (slightly dramatic but struggling with my own fitness) after a couple of laps of the school. So we have a little girl who loans who comes for lessons twice a week on her to keep up the schooling, my friend jumps her occasionally and I am just sticking to hacking.
The problem I have is she is so full of beans now - hacking yesterday, a nice slow trot round the field with a friend, something spooked her and we shot off across the field, tail between her legs, neck locked to the floor and I literally could not stop. Partner obviously not happy as it is a miracle I managed to stay on, plus this isn't the first time a week or two ago the same thing had happened but I had managed to stop fairly quick. She is not a bolter by any means, usually its pony club kicks and lots of encouragement to keep her going but I literally had no brakes at all just had to brace, pull one rein and pray that I stayed on.
Today, she became very bolshy, pushed me over on the horse walker and took off down the fields. Took me forever to catch her and when I did she was really het up, straight into the paddock and lunged her to get some energy out.
But my problem is I don't know what to do - it feels like all the work I am doing is unravelling and I have a pony that I am now starting to worry about riding because it's unsafe for the baby. Really fed up and feel stuck
On one hand I'm thinking do I just go back to ground work, lots of lunging and free schooling then just let her loaner ride twice a week or do I admit that I need to just stop everything until the baby?
Note: Loaner cannot increase days and finding another loaner is impossible have tried this and all interested were time wasters. Cannot pay instructor to ride as I have been made redundant and money is tight.
