Driving test when pg - emergency stop??

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I have my driving test booked for two weeks time when I will be 13 weeks pg - this was booked before I found out.

I was having lessons but ran out of money a couple of months ago, and since then I have been practising every day with my mother. My instructor mentioned that if you are pg the examiner will not ask you to do an emergency stop but having just been reading up on the test it seems that you are expected to do it if requested.

I am now panicking for two reasons - firstly is this safe? I mean obviously if you have to brake suddenly to avoid an accident then you would do so but just for the purpose of demonstrating you can is it an unnecessary risk? And secondly, I have never been taught to do it!

Aarrgghh.

I did my driving test a couple of months ago when about 7 and a bit months pregnant, when it was fairly obvious that I was up the duff!

The instructor told me that they may or may not ask for an emergency stop - in my case, I did have to do one. You don't tend to be going very fast when you stop, and I didn't feel that it put any unnecessary strain on me or the bump. Anyway, he/she is currently still in there kicking the bejeezus out of my insides so it all seems fine!

As for not being taught, that rings a bell: for some reason, my instructor never taught me either, then double-booked himself so I didn't have him on the day of the test. It was a replacement instructor I had who asked if I'd done one, to which the answer was no, so I only did an emergency stop for the first time on the morning of the test!

In any case, the very best of luck with your test.

Hello,

I took my test when 8 and a half months. I was huge. You are supposed to know how to do one and if possible perform on the day but my examiner was really nice and stated up front that it would not be one of my maneuvers.

You only have to be going 30 when you do it and I only practised it twice before the test as my instructor was also nervous about making me do it!

It is worth doing though. Just for your own piece of mind.

Good luck.

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get a []www.amazon.co.uk/Clippa-Safe-CL570-Clippasafe-Babysafe/dp/B0007VB6WI bumpbelt]] It holds the lap strap on the top of your legs rather than across your tummy.

get a bumpbelt It holds the lap strap on the top of your legs rather than across your tummy.

Having revealed elsewhere what I do for a living I might as well let slip that last time I was pregnant I ran 747 simulator practice sessions for pilots wanting to practice emergencies. I did about 6-7 rejected take-offs a week (that's the aeroplane equivalent of an emergency stop,) and didn't have any problems with it. Some of my pilots had a problem with it though when they saw the bump .

I'm taking my driving test in a fortnight - I'll be 37 weeks (eek!). We're practicing emergency stops tomorrow, my instructor hasn't said I can give a miss. From what I recall from learning years ago, it is not that great a jolt (fingers crossed anyway).

Am also booked in for my test soon - at 35 weeks! - and will do an emergency stop if asked (though hoping the examiner asks me to do something else as am getting more massive by the day ). It's a very straightforward thing to do, though, so the risk to the baby is utterly minimal. Let's not forget all that lovely amniotic fluid and the walls of the uterus that hold everything in place, especially in the early stages. OP at 13 weeks I don't think you need to worry about an emergency stop at all

I was 7 months when I took my test the examiner told me not to worry about the emergency stop and was very easy on me!

but at 13 weeks I wouldn't worry.