Is it time to give up Zumba?

[Smicha]

I've been attending zumba classes for the last year and have continued them throughout my pregnancy so far with the approval of my GP and I told my instructor early on, so she helped me modify some of the moves and made sure I didn't get do any jumps or anything ike that!
I'm now at 18 weeks and have had some ligament pain in the last week or so, but which seems to have eased for now. I can't decide whether it's time to give up the zumba and focus on aqua aerobics instead, or whether to give it a few more weeks. I was just wondering if anyone has continued with zumba until further into their pregnancy and how they found it or whether others took a decision at around this stage to move onto lower impact exercise?
Also, anyone who has had ligament pain have you found it better or worse with exercise?
Thanks!

Ligament pain got better with gentle exercise ime. Mostly I've just swum and walked through pregnancy. I avoided anything high impact, but I got to nearly 18 weeks before stopping being sick, so was feeling quite fragile by that point.

No particular advice to offer - but I'm also 18 weeks and doing Zumba twice a week, the advice from my instructor was 'listen to your body'. I'm expecting to have several more weeks of Zumbaing left! Each week I do think to myself that surely by next week I won't have the energy/feel up to it, but it makes me feel good still, so just taking it easy to make sure I don't overheat or get too out of breath etc. I have the odd bit of ligament pain too, but it doesn't seem to correlate with the days I do Zumba. If I was worried, I would soon stop. Hope you come to a happy decision anyway!

Thanks for your stories! I decided to listen to the twinges in my body - and the advice from MW - and not go this week again as I just didn't want to take the risk. And then when DH came in from work I cried on him as I felt a failure!! Right from the start I said I would not let this pregnancy change me and make me stop exercise (I ran a half marathon just before I got pregnant and was hoping to maintain some kind of fitness level)... he was baffled by the outburst, poor thing, but put it down to hormones and gave me a hug!

I cut out running quite early on as I'm a bit clumsy and prone to tripping over my own feet!! But i am walking regularly (have a 7 mile hill walk planned for tomorrow, rain or no rain!!) and have started an aqua class but expect I'll miss the feelgood factor of zumba... will just have to dance around my kitchen more often instead to make up for it!!

I had to stop yoga for a few weeks at around that time. Now 25 weeks and cycling and swimming again. So don't worry. You'll be back to doing the jig soon enough. Ligament pain too shall pass. just give your body time to stretch a bit :)