Looking for Pregnant Tri Peers

sorry not prego, but my wife worked out up until about the 8th month with our second child without issue.

congrats!

Not yet, but I'm hoping to start trying to get pregnant in May.  I have one tri scheduled for the end of April - a last hoorah, I guess.  But I'm hoping to keep working out throughout the pregnancy.  I've been doing some reserach too and it looks like everything's fine just need to do it less intensely while pregnant.  And maybe stay off the bike after the first trimester.  Maybe I'll just become a really good swimmer during the pregnancy!

Congratulations!

Hello, Congratulations! You are still pretty early in your pregnancy most miscarriages happen in first trimester.  Considering you already have two you should be OK with that. I carried twins with a history of miscarriage (The first one was after a swim workout) so I had to play very safe, I could not break a sweat; which left me to yoga and walking and strength work.  After my first trimester my doctor told me not to raise my HR pass 125, that was very hard.  I actually ended up floating in the ocean almost everyday towards the end!

I say it is best to discuss with your obgyn, make sure she/he knows your a triatlete.  Also make sure you have proper hydration.  I remember I had bad leg cramps, I took extra calcium/magnesium that seemed to help. 

This seemed like a good article, just remember your suppling everything that baby needs!

 http://www.iloveindia.com/fitness/pregnancy/pregnancy-heart-rate.html

I'm not pregnant but I had my last one at age 36 with a 5 and 4 yr old at home... YOU ARE NOT TOO OLD.  You'll actually feel like a better parent with this one and also will enjoy the time as you know this is your last child - atleast in my case it was.

Congrats!

I met a women in the locker room Wed. who had her first baby 6 weeks ago and is signed up to do IMKY in August. She is an amazing athlete and Kona qualified in her first IM back a couple years ago.

She is overwhelmed with being a Mom and isn't sure she can train for it meaning having the time. She swam through her pregnancy, ran until 6 months, and I don't know about the bike.

When I heard she was doing IMKY and saw she was pregnant I wondered as a Mom of 5 if she knew how different being a parent is.  I hope she makes the right decision for her and her family. 

Good luck to all of you expecting and those hoping to be expecting too! 

I am about 23 weeks along with my first. Because of all of the infertility treatments to get to this point (finally IVF)  I have been doing NO tri specific training in a long time.
 

For now, walking and light lifting and swimming, and I couldn;t care less. This baby is what I have wanted for a very long time, and actually, I started doing triathlons to give me some place else to focus, as a way to stop hating my (at the time!) infertile body...

Tri it Cajun Style (Laurie) and DerekL could  have their baby at any moment!

Theresa,
Congrats on the pregnancy!  As Possum mentioned, I'm 36 1/2 weeks ( I wish she was ready to "go any moment" as she says!)
I was a little more wary about doing any "training" during my pregnancy, even though I was in the best shape of my life and completed a sprint the day before we found out I was pregnant (about 4 wks along). 

I am more along Possum's camp that no amount of strenuous exercise was worth me jeopardizing the kiddo.  Having said that, I also work as a physical therapist in a hospital, which is pretty physically demanding, on my feet, lots of lifting and bending, so by the time I get off work I have had a good 6-8 hours of activity under my belt and I am pretty much whupped.  I am finally calling it quits this week because my feet and ankles and joints can't take much more.   Kudos to you guys who did it, and with kids!!! 

Feel free to keep in touch!  I'd love to hear how everything's going!

Oh, and I was pretty upset too at first about missing the rest of tri season!

Hello all,

 I've been off the site pretty much for last 3 weeks. I started this thread because I was pregnant, however I had a miscarriage and a D&C a week ago. It's sad, but I'm doing fine with it. I have two healthy kids. Now I'm just trying to figure out how I'm going to get in shape for a Tri in 3 weeks! I had to take 10 days off before the miscarriage because I was could tell something was up. Then I had a D&C and Dr. said 1 week off. So I took 5 full days off and just did a spinerval workout today. I felt great.

We will probably try one more time! I actually thought about trying in August so I could do all my tris- but we are not getting any younger so thought we'd try when it's medically okay.

I would love to have everyone try and keep the  discussion up. Sounds like there are a few trying so we can keep each other company.

Ctnord