moodymares
Active Member
so just a quicky to ask how many of you would ride knowing you were expecting? For anyone who knows me its not me thats expecting!!
I have ridden in all of my pregnancies.
My third pregnancy my consultant pretty much encouraged me to ride and run as long as I felt up to it. I was extremely stressed due to my previous loss and she said the most important thing was for me to be as happy and calm as possible. She also told me that the body is designed to protect the baby pretty much at all costs. In fact she said a fall that would kill the baby would probably kill the mother first (she is very straight talking lol) I ran and rode up until 36 weeks. I would have continued but the icy, snowy weather came.
I continued to look after my horses single handedly and was poo picking the day I went into labour.
My labour was recorded as 1 hour 48 minutes (12 minutes pushing), I didn't use any pain relief. I went home straight from the delivery suite and was up feeding my horses the same day. I was back on 8 days later and I've got my first competition in 2 weeks.
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