A really boring post

During my pregnancy I've basically followed the motto: If it makes me feel good, I can do it even though I'm pregnant.

So I've been going to the gym. Of course I haven't been doing it as often or lifting as heavy weights as usually, but I've still been doing it.

And I've been sleeping on my back, as that's what I prefer to do if I can't sleep on my belly. I know many pregnant women can't sleep on their back because they then get dizzy (from the weight on a particular nerve and/or blood vessel), but I've had no problem with that.

Some people have been questioning me doing those things. So the other day, when I saw the midwife, I ask her about it.

She told me that I should not sleep on my back. If I happened to wake up and find my self on my back, I do not need to freak, but I should try to avoid sleeping on my back.

She also told me that I should not be lying on my back in the gym, and of course not on my stomach either. I should not be working out my stomach muscles, not even lightly. And if I have to do squats I should not do it with any weight on my shoulders.

Now, imagine how difficult it was for me to take a class of Body Pump yesterday.

And imagine how difficult it was for me to sleep when I can't sleep on my stomach or my back, and my ribs hurt when I sleep on the side.

I'm thinking that maybe all the advices that are given to you when you're pregnant is a bit too much these days. I can bet that no one said to my mum, when she was pregnant, that she should not sleep on her back. So I'm considering not taking all advices that I get too seriously.

The one advice that I will be taking seriously though, is the one my midwife gave me about iron supplements. She told me to not take any. When it comes to iron supplements I've been listening to other people and started taking it once in a while now in the end of my pregnancy.

As many people start taking it very early in their pregnancy and some people even need to take to pills a day, I thought I also had to start sooner or later. But the same rule never apply to all people. And my midwife told me that my blood values are so good that I really do not need to take any kind of supplements. So now I've stopped. Like I think I'm going to stop taking so seriously on the advice about not sleeping on my back.

God, this really ended up being the most boring post ever. But at least I wrote something.