mowing the lawn

[Rinnyx]

I know it may sound silly but is it ok to mowing the lawn while pg, I am 16 weeks and the garden is doing my head in that I spent the afteroon trying to chop what I could with the cutter.

We have a hover mower and strimmer, I normally do the garden every year cause DP goes on about how he cant do garden work due to hay fever.

I was meant to ask my midwife yesterday but forgot cause it was someone new and I dont get to see anyone again til 28 weeks
I know I may sound over paranoid but we lost 2 babys last year and even tho everything is going fine with this one I just want to be careful

Personally, I'm not, as I'm avoiding doing any lifting and I would need to leave the mower down from the wall of the shed and then lug it up our sloping garden. I'm a bit paranoid as I had 2 MCs last year also.

If you're not lifting (or not bothered about lifting) it might be okay - pushing a hover mower isn't really much harder on flat ground than pushing a pushchair after all.

Your DP's going to have to some garden work this year! Maybe he should see his GP for advice on meds? My OH gets really bad hayfever but takes Flixonase everyday during the summer and then Zirtec when needed and he copes.

Oh and btw, you should have contact numbers for your midwife so you can call with any questions.

Could you ask your dp to get the mower out of the shed for you before he goes to work, so you just have to mow it? Hover mower should be ok once its out, i think.

Well I get the mower out of the shed, fire it up, mow the lawn and put it back again and all seems fine, did the same last time and no obvious effects on DD. Guess it's a personal choice but I was told by my midwife last time that doing stuff would only hurt me because your muscles and ligaments are more relaxed and not the baby.

With my first, I still did the garden up untill the end. I had no problems.
However, this time I have a back injury, so have only attempted it once, and couldn't move the next day!
I think Hevster is right, that if anything, it might make you ache more, due to your weaker muscles/ligaments around your back and hips?
But I wouldn't have thought this would be an issue untill later on?

Ok thanks for the info, if I cant get DP to budge and do it just this year I might try and have ago at it

I spent last pregnancy lugging round a heavy 18 month old who preferred to be carried. Give me a fly-mo any day!

My DH and I carried a heavy oak table when I was 16 weeks. I probably shouldn't have done it. Agree carrying a toddler is hard work whilst pregnant. Also am still mowing the grass with flymo which isn't that hard work, is your DP's hayfever that bad?

What....? Are we not allowed to lift anything?! I am 22/23 weeks and, in terms of chores and lifting etc, I have been doing everything I normally do, including lifting furniture around, lugging the Henry hoover about, heavy gardening (carrying big pots of compost etc)...

Have I been doing anything harmful?

I have no backache or anything thus far...

I'm totally paranoid because I had a miscarriage after doing some garden work. Probably completely unconnected, but after 2 losses, I'm determined not to do anything that I could regret.

But then, I'm hypermobile anyway, so I have been told to be extra careful.