not to take DS swimming today?

[stillfrazzled]

It's not a lesson or anything, I just realised last week that he was 2.6 and I can't remember when we last went. So I resolved we'd go on Tuesday afternoons.

But now it's freezing and raining and he woke me up FOUR times last night (gawd knows why, never does usually) so I started the day at 5.30am and am newly pg and feel like a limp rag. Cold and wet hair while trying to dry a wriggly toddler does not appeal.

OTOH, I want to do something with him, I could do it if I really wanted to, and otherwise he'll just beetle round playing with trains while I MN supervise from the sofa.

WWYD?

Leave him with the trains for today. There's always tomorrow.

Never go swimming with a cold. Yuck!.
Take him when you feel better.
Maybe make a cake/do a painting with him?

Thank you - tho should clarify that I AM cold, I don't HAVE one. So really am just being a wimp.

Torn between feeling like I'm pg, I deserve a break - and that I'm only just pg, I still have a toddler to look after and shouldn't get too used to giving myself a break...

beetling round playing with trains on a cold grey rainy afternoon sounds like a lovely childhood thing to do, I think

relax and enjoy!

Do you have a partner/husband? in our house, swimming was a weekend boys' activity

Oh sorry, I read that wrong

I stand by my statment though.
Dont give yourself such a hard time!

If yu dont want to then dont...easy!

Do bear in mind though that swimming is absolutely the best way of wearing them out (well is for my two anyway) so you may get a payback of him sleeping all night tonight!

Stillfrazzled, as you're pregnant, now is the time to take a break. You'll not get the chance in a few months.

OLKN, what a fab piece of reasoning Will make that my new philosophy.

Every pregnant woman should.

I took my dd swimming and I'm enjoying the benefits now as she's been sleeping for 1.5hrs.

I am the same as CirrhosisByTheSea - dh takes the kids swimming at the weekends, I have been ONCE, lol eldest is 7

I also seem to remember that the early stages of being pregnant I was incredibly tired, in a different sort of way from later on. I could sit down for a moment to watch the news say, and wake up several hours later that afternoon.

think it is your body's way of letting you know it is trying to give your baby a good, safe start and that you need to take things gently to help that process too...