Proof positive that one can surely talk about pregnancy all day long if you let her.
So what am I going to talk about today? RUNNING.
I don't know how much longer I will be able to run pregnant. This week I have started to have a lot of discomfort, bordering on pain, while doing so. It now feels like my belly is moving up and down so that after a while, the ligaments, muscles around it hurt. Not to mention that my back isn't feeling the best lately. Yesterday I ran for 10 minutes, walked 5 minutes and ran 7 minutes and called it a day. Today my back is really hurting.
I'm not giving up yet - it could just be a bad week, but it also could mean that I'm hanging up the running shoes. I feel pretty lucky that I was able to go 25 weeks (and counting). I have toyed around with the idea of getting a "sports bra for the belly" so that i could continue running. At the beginning of this trip, I said that once I had to get one of those, I would be done. Now that the time might be here, I don't know that I'm ready to stop running! I also don't know if those belly support bands even work, or if they are made for running. Surprisingly, I haven't had any hip, knee or shin pain from carrying around extra weight, which I thought might start to happen.
Suffice to say, I'll keep you posted (pun intended).
So awesome that you have made i this far! Hopefully next week is good again, but whatever happens from here on out, you and baby Schlotty will have all the benefits of what you have done to this point. Did you ever read the Klapp book? Really interesting and impressive stuff!
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