Going to the gym while BFing - advice needed

[AussieSim]

I want to get back to my pre-pregnancy weight (and hopefully shape) before I go back to Australia for Christmas and I was thinking of joining a gym in the city that has child-minding. My ds is 7mths and I am bfing - but have dropped the lunch time feed.

Before I fell pregnant I went to the gym regularly and did cardio and weights and an occasional stretch class. Once I was pregnant I started doing Pilates. My Dr said I could keep up the exercise so long as I didn't push my heart rate over 140 (am 34yo), but I got contractions after the gym when I was 5mths and haven't been since.

All I've read so far is that if you exercise too hard right before feeding that the taste of the milk might be affected by the lactic acid.

Can anyone tell me what I can do at the gym without affecting my milk?

Also do you think playing 9 holes of golf would be OK?

PS: What happened to the sit-up club? I was planning to join when I get back from my holiday in a couple of weeks.

Don't worry about it; lactic acid was detected in the milk of women who exercised hard; someone theorised this might put the babies off.

When the babies were consulted (this comes from a real research study) -- they didn't mind the lactic acid in the milk at all. No one could detect any less eagerness in babies to nurse. So the risk is only theoretical.

If you still want to play safe, your body produces lactic acid when you work very hard; you feel sore muscles because they release lactic acid. Stop yourself short from coming home with sore muscles, and there shouldn't be any lactic acid in your system.

Can't see any problem with the golf!

I went back to exercising regularly when DD was 6 weeks old. I didn't notice any change in DD's desire for breastmilk or anything like that. I think that the important thing is to just keep hydrated and to continue to eat regularly and well. I've never heard that exercising changes the taste or anything like that. HTH

Posted a reply for you on the other thread.

I went back to exercise after 4 weeks ... the only problem I perceived was being hot and sweaty and thus off-putting to dd/dss but although it didn't feel terribly comfortable to me the babies couldn't care less.