Hello all!
This is all a little bit out of my comfort zone I'm afraid cause I'm new to this website and very new to pregnancy!
Me and my fiancé have just found out that we are expecting our first child (I'm only about 4 weeks gone right now) and I just wanted to ask for any advice you guys may have on exercise because we're pretty active people.
More uniquely we also have a couple of horses (We've had them for a while now, they're trained well and are incredibly docile).
I'm quite an obsessive runner and rider normally so I wanted to know if I could keep going with those activities and if so, how long for. With regard to the running, the doc seemed to think it was a good thing that I'm really active and just told me to be careful. I know that I need to watch my distances and how long I run for but is there any specific guidelines that I should be following?
I also wanted to know if I should continue to help tend to the horses or not, This should have been this first question I asked upon finding out that I was pregnant! Stupidly though, I was in so much shock that it slipped my mind! I know for example, that pregnant women should avoid sheep because of the risk of infection being spread. I don't know if there's any rules on horses. Should I avoid riding them for example? I've been riding horses since I was 6 so I'm pretty capable. Then again, I know that horses can spook.
Should I avoid approaching them altogether then? Both me and my fiancés families are pretty close so over the last few days we've had lots of offers to help out. I know that people have jobs and kids of their own though so I'd like to take care of things myself if possible.
We'd really appreciate any advice which you guys may have, I know the second question is pretty out of the ordinary.
Thanks a lot,
Sarah
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Excercise, Horses and First time pregnancy
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SarahW455 · 11/07/2015 22:30
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