I found a couple of things very use\u00adful for my second preg\u00adnancy that I did\u00adn\u2019t dis\u00adcov\u00ader for my first \u2014 and thought I should blog them in case they\u2019re use\u00adful to any\u00adbody else. I\u2019m sure any read\u00aders with oth\u00ader ideas will add them \u2014 I\u2019ll do anoth\u00ader post in a bit about some early baby\u00adhood stuff that I found useful.<\/p>\n
The biggest prob\u00adlems I had with the second preg\u00adnancy were simply due to the size of the belly. I can highly recom\u00admend doing Pil\u00adates, or yoga, or find\u00ading some oth\u00ader way of get\u00adting some\u00adbody to help you fig\u00adure out how to sit, stand, and walk as the belly grows. I stuck out in front which made the poten\u00adtial for lower back pain (which I had for my first, when I did\u00adn\u2019t do Pil\u00adates) worse than for those women for whom the weight is more evenly dis\u00adtrib\u00aduted. I was in a cof\u00adfee shop in the last couple of weeks and chat\u00adted to the barista about this; she thought stick\u00ading out in front and not being notice\u00adably preg\u00adnant from behind was good until I poin\u00adted out it makes doing up your shoes dif\u00adfi\u00adcult. You do get some\u00adwhat adept at twist\u00ading your legs around so you can get at your feet side\u00adways \u2014 I found a long shoe\u00adhorn was very use\u00adful at this stage. <\/p>\n
A body pil\u00adlow was use\u00adful for sleep\u00ading as you are meant to sleep only on your side, and the lig\u00ada\u00adments in your hips start to stretch and hurt, so you need all the sup\u00adport you can get. You can get by with lots of pil\u00adlows, but a body pil\u00adlow is easi\u00ader to deal with. I did\u00adn\u2019t both\u00ader with one of those fancy shaped body pil\u00adlows, the basic straight ver\u00adsion did just fine and was a lot less expens\u00adive. I also found reg\u00adu\u00adlar mas\u00adsages from a registered mas\u00adsage ther\u00adap\u00adist (make sure they have preg\u00adnancy pil\u00adlows for sup\u00adport and have exper\u00adi\u00adence in pren\u00adat\u00adal mas\u00adsage) to be well worth the money \u2014 all those muscles that are being stretched and over\u00adloaded in unfa\u00admil\u00adi\u00adar ways really enjoyed being put back into place.<\/p>\n
And of course you want to get as much done as pos\u00adsible before the baby arrives, while get\u00adting as much sleep as pos\u00adsible. No mat\u00adter how tired you are before the baby arrives, and how little energy you have, you will be more tired and have less energy after\u00adwards! Mind you, if you live any\u00adwhere like Van\u00adcouver and need any renov\u00ada\u00adtions done, you won\u2019t have much choice in when things get done. They will get done when the con\u00adtract\u00ador can fit them in, if you can find a con\u00adtract\u00ador to do any\u00adthing. And the rest will get done when you have some energy. Hav\u00ading a baby is a good les\u00adson in what does\u00adn\u2019t need to be done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I found a couple of things very use\u00adful for my second preg\u00adnancy that I did\u00adn\u2019t dis\u00adcov\u00ader for my first \u2014 and thought I should blog them in case they\u2019re use\u00adful to any\u00adbody else. I\u2019m sure any read\u00aders with oth\u00ader ideas will add them \u2014 I\u2019ll do anoth\u00ader post in a bit about some early baby\u00adhood \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cCop\u00ading with Pregnancy\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}