Stupid things to do when pregnant....

[YogaMummy2B]

I'm trying to make light of this situation to get me through the night (currently 2.53 am, 20 mins after the incident!!) as it's either that or breathing into a brown paper bag for the next 5 hours!
I am 38 weeks and was diagnosed with high BP last week, admitted overnight for monitoring and tests and discharged with a prescription of Methyldopa. High BP issues still continue, had to go back to hospital today for more monitoring, discharged again, with a serious telling off about taking recommended dose of medication. Was making me feel really faint!
Anyway, just peed on a protein testing stick (what a compulsion at 2.30 am!!) to see that I now have +1 of protein in my urine. Freaking out for health of baby and myself, they scared the s**t out of me in the hospital today about having seizures with high BP.
Will phone hospital first thing in morning. Just needed to get it off my chest.

Anyone else done something very foolish during their pregnancy? Keep me company!

DD1- holiday to marrakech at 8 wks. A "walk" with a guide whom we had informed that DH had a back condition evolved into us both scaling quite a challenging rock face with no safety equipment. No harm done by the "walk" but came home with severe food poisoning

DC2 - 38 wks, glossing skirtings and cleaning oven

GreenZebra - laughed at you nearly bouncing into the fireplace.

I've done heaps of stupid stuff incl. winning a limbo competition. I was relieved when baby moved the next day!

Deciding to move house at 35 weeks pg... not done it yet, moving this weekend but having lots of those 'oh shit what have I done??' moments..

I had a bitch of a cold , the first one since I had started eating healthy, and consumed a bottle and a half of cold syrup and lots of painkillers.

Moved twice during first pregnancy (and shifted boxes) after renovating house.

2nd pregnancy (current) too unbelievable stupid and impatient to read pregnancy test. Figured was not pregnant and went out that night as planned and had four glasses of wine.

For the first 8 weeks of this pg I was on a cocktail of heavy prescription meds (all dangerous to foetuses), as well as drinking and smoking. When I found out I was pg I knocked all that on the head but then I:

• moved house 300 miles (having done a lot of the furniture loading and unloading myself),
• had a nervous breakdown during which I lost 18lbs before recovering,
• have been eating LOTS of "naughty" things (prawns, unwashed muddy raw veg etc etc),
• at 32 weeks I single-handedly cut down an 8ft hedge and sawed it up and wrestled it all into 11 huge garden refuse sacks
• at 34 weeks pg I went on a walking holiday with DH where we got trapped on the banks of the fast-flowing Tyne and I had to scale a 5ft barbed-wire fence before crossing broken stepping stones and nearly being washed to my doom,
• Have spent the past 2 weeks up a tall step ladder painting the very high dining room ceiling and babys room
• Have been carrying step ladders and chests of drawers up and down stairs this week (36 wks pg)
• Have been in house full of noxious gloss paint fumes for 2 solid weeks now.

....and loads of other so-called "dangerous" stuff.

....and yet during today's MW visit she commented yet again how healthy me and the bump are . Just goes to show that worrying gets you nowhere (except making you feel ill and fragile) and getting on with normal life usually spells an active healthy pregnancy.

Just built a cot at 32 weeks. Took me 2 hours. I'm exhausted and my back is killing, but I couldn't wait for DH to get home to help me.

Oh, and I'm flying to Amsterdam on Wednesday.

I bumped down an entire flight of stairs at 19 weeks pg with DD1 on my backside, DD was going bananas for about an hour afterwards and I had huge bruising down my back and back of my legs.

DD was fine.

Slipped down a few stairs at 20 weeks with DC2, bruised my back slightly and DC barely registered it. Now 31 weeks pg and assuming DC is going to be fine, didn't even cross my mind to phone the midwife this time!

Went to Alton Towers before I knew I was pregnant with Ds1 went on everything we could too - I'm sure that's why he can't sit still now lol

Before I knew I was pregnant with DD I fell off my bike into a ditch. It was far too ridiculously windy to be cycling, but I couldn't be bothered either to wait for the bus or to walk.

Went mountain biking in the alps on holiday which had been booked for a year. I had just found out I was pregnant a couple of days before we left but figured I'd be ok if I took it carefully. Didn't take it that carefully and ended up zooming down mountains at terrifying speeds over treacherous terrain! All ok though, apart from the grandparents horrified reaction when we announced the pregnancy on our return!

Painted DS's room at about 34 weeks. I figured if I just opened a window, I'd be fine. It needed doing and I was on maternity leave by then, so had the time.

I was 36 weeks and went cliff walking up Lulworth Cove, had such strong BHs I had to sit for half hour up the top of the cliff for them to subside.

Next day we went home (were on hols) and went via Salisbury, that's where I sprained my ankle.

Crossing the road

Had DD 10 days later, 14 days before EED

[typo] EDD

I've booked my stupid thing to do in the future. I navigate on motor rallies and so I've lined up my driver to do an event two weeks before my DD, if I'm feeling very bored and fed up.

Flying through the forest at 100mph over very rough tracks should start things off nicely

Am 40 weeks today, and yesterday I decided to make a rockery (using heavy large lumps of stone) on top of a 5 ft wall whilst balancing on a piece of broken slate in a flower bed.
Mind you, this was marginally less risky/stupid than Saturday's trick of dragging a kitchen chair out into the garden to stand on and wash the outsides of the windows, wobbling precariously on the uneven concrete.

This thread has just stopped me doing something stupid during pregnancy! I was planning on painting the skirting boards tomorrow. I gather gloss paint and pregnancy shouldn't mix then?!

I'm 10 weeks and in a weeks time I am going to Silverstone to drive Ferraris around a race track very fast indeed, even though it distinctly says the day is not suitable in pregnancy. I can't see how driving around a race track is going to be vastly different to the drive there.

I used to ride a sportsbike up the highway in Singapore to work in flip flops and a t-shirt until my bump got in the way of the petrol tank.

Scrambling up nets, through tunnels and throwing small children out of the way to repeatedly go "wheeeeeee" down the giant slide at softplay. 33 weeks.

Built the cot at 37+1. Was very proud, actually.

Locked myself out of the house on due date with DC1. All flatmates were out, it was guy Fawkes night. Had to make short journey on bus to collect spare keys, which ended up involving 5 buses, huge crowds, fireworks, dinner in a lovely restaurant etc etc. Didn't start labour thankfully.