is it normal for a heavily pregnant woman to be able to walk 12 miles?

[mum0ftw0]

or is that an unreasonable expectation?

I would say highly unreasonable.

seems fairly unreasonable to me but I'd say it's up to the woman doing the walking.

I don't know but pregnant African women out in the bush probably have to walk similar distances for water, visiting clinics etc.? Not sure though.......

Unreasonable I'd say I couldnt have managed it.

I couldn't, or only very very slowly.
would never expect it from a pregnant woman.

Highly unreasonable.

Its probably possible...if you had to to save your life or something, of course. But its bloody uncomfortable beyond a certain point, it bears down on your bladder, sometimes they are sitting on your sciatic nerve, also its hot...your feet or legs might be swollen, etc...

So what I'm saying is it may be possible but you wont find many doing it just because they have nothing better to do! Particlarly in this kind of weather.

I did about two hours walking a day right up to having DD2 (not that it kept the weight I had to lose afterwards down ) but it was pretty slow going at times.

12 miles is far too far.

Good God no. I'm 22 weeks pregnant and would struggle to do two miles at the moment!

Is this woman in the habit of walking long distances?
Because if she is then it may well be OK - Julia Bradbury on Countryfile seems to be continuing her walking although not quite "heavily" pregnant yet.

I don't know, some heavily pregnant women are more precious than others. Also depends on level of general fitness and whether bothered by spd, pgp, wtf, etc. I felt no different at 40 weeks than pre-pregnancy both times and would happily have walked to the ends of the earth. Why?

Dunno. I covered that sort of distance fairly regularly when heavily pregnant with both DD1 and DD2 (early 30s, naturally slim, neither a gym-freak nor wildly unfit at the time).

I considered it normal, having no car, living miles from town and owning dogs but have no idea whether others would do so.

Yes......... why OP?

Generally speaking, no it's not normal. That's about 4 hours at normal walking speed; a lot of walking even for a non-pregnant woman! I'm sure there would be a few that might be fit enough though.

I was just shocked at some posts in the other thread;

'altinkumWed 03-Aug-11 14:40:58
yes I am saying exactly that, 12 miles is at most a 2 hour walk, if your not fit enough to walk that time, then tbh, you need to address your fitness levels.
At 38 weeks pregnant I was regularly doing walks that length.'

'ApocalypseCheeseToastieWed 03-Aug-11 16:16:44
And I agree with altinkum, many heavily prregnant women would be able to walk 12 miles, especially on the flat.'

Well, it's perfectly normal for pregnant women in under-developed countries though isn't it? They have to walk. We've just become very sedentary by comparison. I know I am pretty darned lazy when it comes to walking

What thread?

So this is a thread about a thread?

Can you not discuss this on the original thread?

should wheelchairs users get priority on buses

Ah - must have a look!

From Wikipedia:

"the average human walking speed is about 5 kilometres per hour (km/h), or about 3.1 miles per hour (mph)"

I doubt many people that could walk 12 miles in 2 hours, pregnant or otherwise.

those statements were just so outragious, I thought a fresh point of view on 12 miles being walkable would help get things into perspective.

I managed a lot of walking with DS1 but not that far. The heat wiped me out.

DS2 was born in the autumn and I used to walk to work which was 8 miles away up until about 7 1/2 months pregnant. It wasn't easy but I was doing it to stay resonably fit. After 7 1/2 months I just swam and went walking on the tread mill gently.

that

I am pretty fit (and not pregnant) and I couldn't walk 12 miles in under 2 hours! That's twice average walking pace. I guess I'd better get addressing my fitness levels, then.

FWIW I had days when heavily pregnant when I couldn't have walked 12 yards...

I was a carer for my nan up until she died.

She lived a just under 2 hours away from me and at least 4 times a week i had to walk there and back.Did this right up until a week before i gave birth to ds2.

wasn't ideal but there was no one else to help her so there was no choice really