To wish more pregnant women were like this?

[LisaExpress]

Good example

Running a marathon at 7 months pregnant. Good on her.

Running 10k is not extraordinary at all.

My dad was telling me yesterday about my gran, who in the war used to cycle 15 miles to work, work in a shop on her feet all day then cycle home, where she would have to grow her veg etx. She wasn't pg, but I was fascinated how that was just usual then, and now would be almost considered training for a long race!

None of us do enough exercise, pg or not

Sorry, I didn't make myself clear I think. What I mean is, for the women in your post who do no exercise, doing at 10k run isn't the same as signing up for a class in something moderate. As other posters confirm, it would take a bit of training first and not something to attempt if you are 7m pg and not used to exercise or have not been doing any throughout your pregnancy.

Where are the stats backing up the assertions that:

One of the reasons the csection rate in the UK is so high is because so many pregnant women are overweight

and that Midwives who are often overweight themselves

None of us do enough exercise, pg or not
Erm, how do you know?

I meant as a nation, not mumsnetters, obviously

We is not all sitting eating Gregs and naice ham you knowz

You wish more women were completely unaware they were pregnant until they gave birth? Yes, that sounds completely ideal

What do I wish ?

I wish that every woman has a happy, healthy pregnancy that takes account of her own personal limitations. I wish that every baby born has the best start in life with parents that are in a place to care for it in a loving manner

To wish for anything else for other people is a little odd

Exactly what AnyFucker said..
I have a prosthetic leg and was very pleased with my ability to climb the flight of stairs to my bedroom freighting my 9 month belly. For some of us, little victories are cause for celebration.

indeed, littleball

oh, and the weight of my midwives had fuck all to do with my birthing experience

Ahem

I am 41, knackered, do enough running after my eldest and my toddler
Am 8 days overdue, amgestationally diabetic and have bad circulation and am just too old for this shit

and now you want me to run a sodding marathon?!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What do I win? If not my own weight in chocolate post-birth you can count me out.

If I eat a lot of marathons not snickers no siree marathons else you cannot do the peanut under the foreskin gag am I a bad example?

As you were. Off to lie down.

I love this thread just for the mental image of rows of pregnant women slapping their heels in unison.

My waters broke with dc4 when I had spent the day digging veg patches. Bet that burnt a few calories too but that won't count as exercise and get me praised in articles. Also meant I got some veg that summer

I couldn't have run a marathon at 7 months, I was too busy having my prem baby

YABU to think more pregnant women should run marathons if they don't want to. Each to their own.

I wish more women felt good enough in pregnancy to consider running a 10k. It would be great.

But pregnancy isn't that easy for many women.

I also wish that if a pregnant woman is lucky enough to be feeling good and healthy that other people shouldn't judge her for running (or in my case cycling).

It doesn't impress me at all. In fact, quite the opposite.

oh, were we meant to be impressed ?

I was thinking more of my friend with MS who is wheelchair bound who had a baby against the odds, actually

and the ladies on the neonatal unit where I work who walk miles every day soothing their 7 month prem babies to sleep

some healthy woman who ran a bit ? yes it's great....but as a special achievement every one of us should aim for ?

not so much

I think it would be better to say that you'd like to see more people lead healthier lifestyles and that being female and pregnant should be no exception to that.

The more research that comes out, the more we are realising that the health, exercise and diet of women before they get pregnant has significant implications for a baby's long-term health, as does the man's lifestyle.

It stands to reason that if more women were physically very fit and active before conception, many of them would have much easier pregnancies, but the relationship is not always that simple. There are always going to be mothers who do everything 'right' and still have awful pregnancies where they are barely capable of getting through the day, let alone running several times a week.

AnyFucker, I'd be more impressed if OP's article link referenced a woman who freely admitted to eating a 4 pack of cream cakes before having a little weep about not fitting into a size 14 skirt and then looked at her scan pic and worried that her baby was going to be born with a badger's snout.
People should embrace pregnancy for the crazy hormone fest that it is. Running a marathon is just unnecessary.

indeed

Whatever the goods and bads about it, the woman is bloody gorgeous. And whatever she is on..........I want it.

I couldn't comment on the effect running during pregnancy has as I don't have all the facts. I do think that saying good example is going to annoy those that can't for whatever medical reason.

I don't understand the " my pregnancy my body" comments from some. The second you fall pregnant it is not just your body, it is also your unborn babies. Why should your partner not also have a say if the think you are putting your unborn baby at risk through an action.

YANBU

But you have to allow that your wishes are completely irrelevant to the rest of the world. I'm going to wish for world peace, a cure for cancer and help for dementia and Alzheimer's patients personally. Oh & an end to world hunger and that we have a good summer.

I wish more women didn't complain of morning sickness during pregnancy.

I wish more women didn't get so tired during pregnancy and were able to do more.

I wish more women didn't get hormonal and irrational in pregnancy.

I wish more women didn't treat pregnancy like an illness.

Oh no, hang on, no I don't because I'm not a total arsehole.

Pregnancy can be a breeze for some women, and the hardest thing they ever do for others. How does putting more pressure on women help in the teeniest, tiniest, slightest bit? How does making people feel like failures for not being able to do something most people (men as well) can't do even when they're not incubating another human being?

Time to apply the Caitlin Moran test: do men have to put up with these sorts of expectations from society? No?

Then it's bullshit.