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AIBU?

in thinking that late stages of pregnancy and rollercoasters don't go well together?

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ScentedLovePuff · 05/06/2010 09:56

Lowdown - I was at Alton Towers a few weeks ago, queueing to go on Spinball Whizzer (or whatever the heck its called).

There was a lady in the queue a few people ahead of us, queueing with her two children. She looked 30+ weeks pregnant (lovely round, very prominant bump). She reached the front of the queue and helped her older child into the car, when she tried to load her younger one the ride attendant stopped her, measured him and said that he couldn't ride without an adult as he was too small.

She promptly climbed into the carriage with him, restrains fastened and they were off.

Some people in the queue were protesting, saying she shouldn't ride in her condition (there is also a sign at the ride entrance saying the ride is not suitable for pregnant women etc) but the ride op (who was only about 19-20 bless him) said there was nothing he could do to prevent her riding if she chose to.

The restraints on the ride press into your stomach (I don't know if anyone is familiar with them) not the best picture I had a c-sec 12 months ago and I found the pressure on my stomach uncomfortable, so lord only knows how she felt, and its quite a rough ride, could that be dangerous for the baby?

Don't get me wrong, she must have been in an awkward position, and have potentially disappointed her child if they couldn't ride after queueing, and I hope that her and her baby were absolutely fine. I'm probably being a nosy git, but I was concerned for her and her bub.

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Morloth · 05/06/2010 10:01

Amazed they let her on, what a huge litigation risk.

I wouldn't do it, but those bumps/babies are actually pretty tough. I would have chucked everywhere though.

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ScentedLovePuff · 05/06/2010 10:06

Lol, same here Morloth, dread to think what the combination of spinning rollercoaster and pregnancy nausea could have come up with!

Friend who was with me at the time said the baby must have felt like they were in a washing machine.....

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Vallhala · 05/06/2010 10:12

"Some people in the crowd were protesting"

WTF has it to do with them? It's one thing to remark om it on here as you have OP, another entirely to complain to/within earshot of a grown woman as to how she behaves.

Otherwise there's no issue. The theme park's regulations weren't broken, neither was any law. The woman merely went against advice.

I was advised not to ride horses and countless other things in pregnancy yet my DDs are now teenagers and still in rude health. Had anyone protested to me they would have been put very firmly in their place.

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AlCrowley · 05/06/2010 10:14

I couldn't ride the carousel at DS's soft play place when I was pregnant without feeling awfully sick! No way I would have managed a spinning ride.

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runnybottom · 05/06/2010 10:26

Oh FFS.

Why not just round up all pregnant women into a big secure bubble where someone can tell them what to eat, drink, wear and do at all times?

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sowhatis · 05/06/2010 10:38

are you sure she just wasnt a bit plump??

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fryalot · 05/06/2010 10:40

why didn't any of the protesting queue members offer to ride with the kid so she didn't have to?

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sanielle · 05/06/2010 10:51

I think that is gross, YANBU.

I think the argument that a person can do whatever they like with their own body goes only as far as being able to choose to have an abortion.

Once you have decided to have a child, you have a responsibilty to the person inside you to be healthy for it.

It makes me just angry when people say it is ok to serve a pregnant woman at a bar (i woudln't)

Or women up the duff down the high street, quietly chain smoking. Just don't get pregnant id you can't give up being selfish for 9 months..

Makes me so

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thesecondcoming · 05/06/2010 10:57

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runnybottom · 05/06/2010 10:57

Then I hope you'd get sacked from your bar job.

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Vallhala · 05/06/2010 10:59

sanielle, as long as you wouldn't mind being sacked for refusing to do your job or being told to fuck off by pregnant women who don't care to do as you think they should, that's fine.

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JaxTellersOldLady · 05/06/2010 11:00

Why didnt someone in the queue offer to go on with her DC then?

As for sanielle, you would be sacked in two seconds!

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sanielle · 05/06/2010 11:04

(It was a hypothetical, I don't work in a bar..) but I would not serve a pregnant woman. And I would have no problem telling you where to shove it thesecondcoming.

For god's sake its 9 months. It won't kill you to be good for 9 months.

People really make feel ill, I'd be ashamed to be 35 weeks and walking in to9 a bar.

I woudl not give a newborn a cigarette or a glass of winee or sitck them on a rollercoaster.. SO why do it because you can't see it yet.

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winnybella · 05/06/2010 11:06

sanielle, FFS, you do realise no doctor will proclaim that an occasional glass of wine will harm the foetus? You're just ignorant.

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thesecondcoming · 05/06/2010 11:08

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MrsC2010 · 05/06/2010 11:11

Ooooh, I'm 32 odd weeks now and just the thought of that makes me feel pretty horrific. Certainly not something I can't personally ever see myself doing, my stomach feels sensitive etcand sometimes even having the waistband on my jeans at the wrong point hurts, can't imagine the pressures from a roller coaster!

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sanielle · 05/06/2010 11:15

yes, I am obvioulsy a blubbering moron and twat because I think pregnaant women shouldn't drink.

Maybe the fact that a pregnant woman ready to pop can't give up drink says something about a country that has one of the worst binge drinking problems in Europe?

Btw last I checked current advice said that while a drink might not hurt your baby they have no way of knowing exactly how much you need to hurt it and that it varies from person to person... and for that reason doctors (those funny guys in the coats) think you should not drink at all.

But hey its your baby and your body so you do what you like.

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Alibabaandthe40nappies · 05/06/2010 11:16

Sanielle I drank when I was pregnant. Not to excess but within advisable limits. You are ignorant and should therefore keep your ill-informed opinions to yourself.

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Alibabaandthe40nappies · 05/06/2010 11:18

sanielle Drs don't think you shouldn't drink.

The guidelines are aimed at people like you who clearly don't understand the word 'moderation'.

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LindenAvery · 05/06/2010 11:19

So sanielle - I expect you also think a pregnant woman should have no medicines during labour - after all they possibly could do more damage than a single glass of wine?

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waitingforbedtime · 05/06/2010 11:21

I wouldnt do it (am 26wks) but suppose it is her choice. Am surprised though that they can stop a child going on but not a pregnant woman for legal reasons more than anything.

As for the pregnant women drinking thing - I worked in a bar, I served a woman vodka and she was very very very pregnant, she drank all day. It was horrible and I felt bad but there was nothing i could actually do to stop her was there?

A woman having a glass of wine wont do any harm though and I wouldnt feel ashamed walking into a bar?!

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MrsC2010 · 05/06/2010 11:24

Oh, I missed the turn this has taken!

So, to get up to speed, should I be in my little bubble by now? For what it's worth, I do disagree with smoking when pregnant and drinking TO EXCESS. I used to eb a smoker but gave up when we started to try, but I appreciate that not everyone can do this, I don't mean I'm special, just that I know how hard it can be to give up. As such, whilst I personally wouldn't and do to an extent disapprove, I wouldn't judge someone I saw who smoked on the odd occassion because sometimes it is very hard to give up and can cause great stress!

I have had the odd very small drink (inch of wine savoured over an evening or a very long spritzer) since having been in the 3rd tri, I wouldn#t have felt comfortable having a real drink in 1st tri though for example. But only because I can be a worrier, and I knew that if anything had happened I would have blamed myself horribly.

I do find it hard to reconcile the argument that it is my body, I'm not just an incubator etc becaase I am responsible for the life, health and well-being of my unborn daughter. All decisions I make about what to do/eat/drink etc have to consider her. (I'll get a shock if she comes out a he now won't I!) But again, each to their own.

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runnybottom · 05/06/2010 11:25

Well you said it. And yes it is her body and baby and none of your sodding business.

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