Could you manage this at 33 weeks?

[Flamingo84]

My office have arranged a company bonding day by which point I’ll be about 33wks.

This includes touring a historic site and doing some team building exercises there, a lunch at a different location about 20 mins away on public transport then a 1 hour boat trip (along the shore), ending with a group discussion and debrief.

Does this sound like too much?
Just thinking about it makes me want to lie down but am I just being a big baby?!

I was walking several miles inc some hill walking up until about 33 weeks, at which point I went downhill rapidly!

I found everything a struggle from that point on and would definitely not have been up for any kind of bonding activity day. In fact, I would have hated that even if not pregnant!

Why change her number pigeon?

Tbh anything involving 'team building activities' I would come down with a mystery illness that day, pregnant or not

At 33 weeks I was completely fine - I was sitting my finals at uni and working 8 hour shifts in a bakery. I enjoyed having things to do. It was only 38-42 weeks I was knackered. At 34 weeks I went on a lovely holiday down south that involved a fair bit of walking and exploring, and at 35 weeks I had a day out exploring London by myself while DP was there for work, I wandered around and shopped and visited galleries and parks for about 7 hours, it was lovely!

BUT every pregnancy is very different and my colleague struggled from 20 weeks with exhaustion and anxiety.

If you think you could be too tired, just don't go. Or go and make an excuse to leave early or just do a half day. Good luck with the baby!

@Grandmaswagsbag and @Sundaygirls yes boat trip is not selling it to me either! I don’t want to vomit around my coworkers!! 🤢

@Lumarie your suggestion sounds amazing. After all I’ll be off for a year and I could do with bonding with my new tiny teammate!

I’m seriously jealous/heartily impressed by all the ladies who were so active at the end of their pregnancies! My brain thinks that a long walk is a great idea but my body just won’t cooperate!

@Redpandamama these team events are torturous. Especially when you’ve worked in the same office with the same people for over 10 years! The ‘tell us something nobody knows about you’ activities don’t work well in those situations! Thank you!

I could have done. In fact, I’m a primary teacher and was on school trips defending myself from marauding Celts and so forth at that point in my pregnancies.
But... everyone isn’t different and it’s hard to know how you’ll feel. I wouldn’t decide either way yet.

I moved house at 37 weeks and was decorating up till then. However that was a need and had I had the choice I wouldn't.
I'd say see how you feel. You can always back out on the day

@Halfblindbunny I hear ya!

You can sit down for everything but the tour, surely, and would expect you probably would be fine at 33 weeks - unless you develop complications like spd in the meantime or are already very unfit.
I'm on my third and near the same number of weeks now, and haven't been that well, and it would be a fairly full on day but totally manageable, and nice to get out of the office and spend time building connections before going on leave.
Perhaps if you show great enthusiasm now, it'll be more convincing if later on you have to sadly back out (vs just wanting to escape the team building).

i physically could of done this, i worked up to 36 weeks in community care, so having to roll bed bound elderly people which could get quite strenuous. The boat trip however i would never of done in a million years

@Ohyesiam so she never hears from them again

Physically, no problem at all. I was on my feet all day working full time until 37 weeks. Team building, no way, pregnant or not.

No I would have found that a very long and tiring day. My work didn't expect me to go on anything like that after about 20 weeks. Also you'll be on mat leave soon after, so not much incentive!

Physically I'd have no problem. I did housework on my actual due date, and past my due date I stood on public transport and went shopping with my mum- we walked there, was a 30 minute walk, we walked round the shops, then walked back. I was fine.

At 36 weeks i climbed to top of a monestary in France but it was agony on way back down.
Plus I slept for 12 hours the next day.
I think only you will know if you can cope but you need to make sure you can take breaks or sit down when tired.

I’m 30 weeks pregnant and currently camping in Cornwall. Doing lots of walking, a bit of cycling and some swimming. I’m definitely noticing how different I feel lugging around all the excess weight on my front and I need to rest a bit more but I’m still quite active. God knows how I’ll feel in 3 weeks though, I don’t feel like I can actually get much bigger than I already am!

35 weeks and I'd be fine doing all that. Would need serious rest after though!

I’d have been fine with that in both my previous pregnancies.
However it sounds awful so if I could use pregnancy as an excuse not to go I would .

(I hate team building)

I went to a wedding a week after my due date. I felt fine but that was knowing that I could bow out anytime I felt I needed to. Is there options for places you could leave/get a taxi? Also I think a perfect excuse if you just don’t want to? Maybe mutter something about insurance?

I would have been fine with it during my last 2 pregnancies but each one is different!

I'm clearly in the minority but apart from the hideous nature of team building I'm not really seeing what's so bad or unmanageable about it? Or why your husband would object to you doing it?
I did Body Pump on my due date though so I do have quite straightforward pregnancies.

I would have been absolutely fine doing that at 33 weeks. It doesn't sound strenuous. Do you have problems with using public transport generally? If not, I can't foresee any issues

I'd have done all but the boat trip puke face.

Surely you'd have lots to share in the 'tell your coworkers something they don't know about you" section:
Piles.
Hippo feet.
Hundreds of fresh moles and skin tags.
Farts that blow your duvet off.
Fanny daggers.
The inside of your belly button being on the outside.
Waking eleventy million times a night with heart burn.
The feeling of two pigs wrestling in your uterus when you have a cold drink (perhaps that was just me and my ds...?).
At least 12 women and quite possibly a man or two have seen your foof and had a furtle.
The constant need to wee.

Such a magical time