to expect to be able to bounce on a children's trampoline?

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Planning to buy a garden trampoline for the children. Have only just managed to talk husband into this. He wants to keep a limit on the size. But I am secretly hoping to have a bounce myself. Will it have to be massive to take an adult's weight?

Ours is 8 ft and according to packaging can take 15 stone. Agree about pelvic floor though! It was a bit of a shocker as I'd done my exercises like a good girl and had been riding, cycling etc with no bother at all. One little bounce on the trampoline and . It has got better over time, I can now bounce a little bit higher and for longer so it must tighten the muscles somehow!

this thread has really cheered me up. i have been too embarrassed to go on dc's trampoline as thought others would think i was mad. am glad to know that it's perfectly acceptable, as long as i wear tena pants and strap my boobs down with duct tape i should be ok ;)

Note to self, when I buy a tramp for DD buy tena lady for me. I'm bad enough on the trampette at the gym.

Farts are not safely housed within either.

Farts are a menace to the trampolining mother.

Especially if you are laughing, impossible to maintain any dignity at all.

Oh god I remember doing the long jump at school and on landing, letting off THE most enormous, deafening fart. I was so mortified that I almost wasn't, if that makes sense? Inwardly I was like "Well that's it. I've reached the pinnacle of embarrassment. I'm actually about to die of it. This is what it feels like to be as mortified as it's possible to be. Hmm."

12-14ft to take an adult depending on how heavy you are. TP toys web site will tell you. Do not go on with the DCs, it causes accidents!

Oh I'm in tears reading this. Thank you for the perfect ending to a long day

If you could do your first bounce not in public, you may be ok.

NEVER in front of your kids because they WILL tell every one that you actually did a wee in your pants.

Mine did...in the playground with all the mums around us. Staggered this information, because he then told them that i farted very loudly too while laughing.

I often wonder how that kid is doing in the childrens home.......

Oh please keep them coming, I can't breathe for laughing!

Ours is 8' with a 16 stone weight limit, but no matter how good you think your pf is, you may be caught unaware.

Lots of my friends hopped on for a go when we first got ours and then hastily went off to the loo within seconds

Ours is 14 feet across and the teens use it. I too have been known to get out there, first go pee, jump up and down a few times, go pee some more, bounce a bit more, and on it goes. I have found the more often we use the trampoline the better shape I'm in and no longer need to run for a pee as often. Helps if you have a downstairs loo.

Oh I was certain my pelvic floor was sound, have always done PF exercises, never any leakage at any other time.

Two bounces on a trampoline proved how very wrong I was.

Op I can almost promise you you will wet yourself. Really.

Oh op, dont you know never be smug about your pelvic floor?! It will fail you in public. Like a toddler in the supermarket, it will decide the time is now to make it's displeasure known.
Mil and I both look longingly at the trampoline after a very embarrassing go after a few glasses bottles of wine. Dp wont let me forget it.
I cant skip either... :(

The first time I bounced on a trampoline (aged 68) I landed awkwardly and sustained a tibial plateau fracture and was in plaster for twelve weeks.

Am I being smug to say one of my proudest moments was bouncing on a tramp on New Years Eve and not pissing myself? [preen]

Running however...

You may not wet yourself. 3 months after having dd I had a go and no piddling! (My boobs however could have done with a trampoline of their own or a concrete bra!)

We have a 10 foot trampoline. I regularly bounce on it with DD, and I've never peed myself. :)

Wetting yourself is not inevitable. I have 3 DCs and last summer (before DC4 was conceived) I really enjoyed several long bounces on trampolines. No wee incidents to report

3x vaginal births, including one forceps (with accompanying pelvic floor devastation). I can't claim to be meticulous with my exercises either...

Ohh Ohh this is the first chance I've ever had to be smug on mn or in real life ...

I can bounce without leakage and I've had six dc

Ok there are much better things to be proud of but hey, I'll take what I can get

I pissed myself too
And this is coming from the woman who a few years ago had a sneaky go on a trampoline the day before I went into labour with DS, so muscles of steel!

8ft and weight limit of 17 stone on our one.

DS's is 10ft and I have managed to bounce and more on his and I am not svelte.... It did cause fits of laughter when my neighbours waved from their conservatory on every bounce.... you do become very visible

Oh god, I had abdominal surgery on Friday and thought I'd come on here for a bit of light relief during my convalescence but I keep having to stop reding for fear of bursting my stitches! Stop it now!

Any jumping is bad for my pelvic floor. The worst was when I went to a British Military Fitness class a few months after DC2 was born. I hadn't realised I had this problem until I was doing star jumps for 5 mins. Straight after that we did an exercise where people had to crawl through our legs, all I could think was "please don't let me stink too badly of urine". Tena lady are now my friend. Goddam it I am only 33 .

Can't believe how focused people are on my pelvic floor. Childbirth obviously has a lot to answer for.

While all you trampoliners (or ex-trampoliners) are around, can anyone tell me if I'm being foolish to get a Plum trampoline from Tesco for about £120 instead of spending over twice as much on one from TP?