Comments at Christmas cause I choose to carry on riding whilst pregnant

Everything carries some risk.
I think I would do as you are, a calm horse away from roads and avoiding spooky horses and big jumps, or anything with a greater fall risk.

And on another thread a pregnant woman is being told to ignore the NHS food guidelines and crack into the smoked salmon and liver pate because all life comes with some risk....🙄

You're pregnant OP, you can't win and everyone has an opinion on what you do.... happy days

Hate is a strong word. Maybe read back some of the thread.

You do you op!

not the same risk I suppose but I did cycle
until nearly the end of my last pregnancy and even cycled up to the hospital for my final few appointments (even after the pre c section appointment days before it was booked)

I had lots of people say things and even had a man in a van beep and shout at me out the window that I shouldn’t be doing this in my condition (FUCK OFF)

I took my baby out to town when he was 4 days old, we had a toddler too and we needed to get out of the house. A bloke in the lift asked me if the baby was allowed to be out that young.... more worryingly he had his own kids with him!

And yet the highest and most likely risks we face in life no one questions.
Things like mental health (self harm), poor lifestyle leading to high risk (diet, alcohol , obesity etc), driving (crashing) a car, crossing roads, and all sorts of health issues are way, way more likely per hour of activity than most sports.
And that's before you factor in the multiple benefits of outdoor, nature, physical and social benefits.

OP didnt ask anyone if she should ride... the judgey judgers decided to come on and spray their hate anyway.

I think 'hate' is a strong word.

An anonymous random rocks up after name changing to tell us she's a pregnant horse riding doctor.

People are going to have momentary opinions on that before flicking onto another thread, not 'hate' 👀

Yup. I allowed myself one coffee a day when I was pregnant. I’d have it at work in the morning. The girl at the desk across from me had regular conniptions about it. It was tiresome. I just rolled my eyes at her.

@StepsNotMiles

who else’s body is it?

Exactly!

I have the same judgement over my decision to have home births (20 years ago now!). No one is making you have one if you don't want to but others make their decisions in conjunction with their health professionals and deem it the right decision for them. End of story.

OP didnt ask anyone if she should ride... the judgey judgers decided to come on and spray their hate anyway.

Have fun OP!

Ignore them, Op.

I mean you get some people who think pregnant women shouldn’t exercise when pregnant 🤯 like they should just sit on the sofa all day, every day

people are just clueless

It’s your choice OP.

I’m an experienced rider but I wouldn’t have done it. The worry of the risk would be too much for it to be any good for my mental health.

It’s not just your body, though. What happens if you fall off?

No pregnancy is risk free though. How about getting on a plane? How about dyeing your hair? How about drinking a coffee? How about drinking fresh orange juice that hasn’t been pasteurised? Or eating a soft boiled egg? How about going into the office when you might catch flu? How about avoiding exercise to the detriment of your mental health?

All of these are “risks” and it’s down to individuals to choose how much they are comfortable with.

It was one of the biggest shocks for me in pregnancy realizing how your body suddenly becomes regarded as public property for unwelcome comments from all directions. In my first pregnancy I was at my birth prep course and one woman told us a man had come up to her while she was buying strawberries and practically took the carton out of her hands because … they were somehow dangerous. We all looked at her in horror at the notion that this might be our lives from then on.
Practice lots of deep breathing, intoning ‘none of your business’ as you exhale. Keep riding as long as you feel safe and balanced.

Crack on - tootling around on a horse you know will be fine. Ross Canter won Burghley this year when pregnant - I doubt you are doing 5 star Xc fences.

Still doesn’t give people the right to try and tell her what to do. I honestly can’t get away with the audacity of people who think they can tell pregnant women what to do (generally, not just on this thread).

Yep I’m 8 years on, some loss of feeling in my right leg
was back on a horse 8 weeks post op! Discharged the day after surgery with no aids

Well yeah, obviously 😳

But she's posted about it, thus encouraging chat and opinions.

She's not just risking herself tho is she .
She risking what i presume is wanted baby .

It’s your choice to do what you want. And it’s other people’s choice to express their opinions.

What’s the point of the thread? You feel you’re making the appropriate decision about risk; they think you’re not.

Are you being unreasonable? Difficult to say. Since you say you are a doctor, you must know that there is a risk of something happening, no matter how good-natured your horse is (I saw a case where a girl was kicked by another horse while on her own horse, which caused a very nasty open fracture, and as a result, she fell off her horse, which obviously wasn’t at fault at all.) What’s the NHS guidance on horseback riding whilst pregnant?

I wouldn't regardless of how lovely your boy is ,he could be spooked or stumble or anything

I rode a bit during my second pregnancy , I was too sick to do so during the first one . I do think it’s totally different if it is your own horse and you are in control of what you are doing . Your body , your choice .

I ride a bike to and from work. I was advised that riding a bike was fine as long as I did it very regularly as I would need to adapt to my changing shape.

With dd there was snow on the ground for a month when I was 6 months. So I didn’t ride then as felt risky. And once the snow had melted my body had changed massively so I didn’t re-start.

With ds I stopped at about 7.5 months as it suddenly felt really uncomfortable.