http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Cycling when pregnant en Wed, 13 May 2026 04:30:57 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9315&page=2#post-255437 Wed, 19 Jul 2017 13:10:53 +0000 Lezzles 255437@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Actually this was me that started the thread. I managed to cycle until about 6 months but then the baby was pressing too hard on my diaphragm and i was getting really breathless. It was such a shame as I also had plantar fasciitis and could barely walk so lost my only mode of transport other than the car. </p> <p>If I'd had a sit up and beg bike I'd have cycled until the end if I could. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9315&page=2#post-255393 Wed, 19 Jul 2017 08:44:10 +0000 rust 255393@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>My partner made it to 8 months - though she kept coming home and complaining that folk on road bikes were faster than her (she rides a 9-speed mtb) and that her knees kept hitting her bump when she tried to go faster. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9315&page=2#post-255387 Wed, 19 Jul 2017 07:49:06 +0000 LivM 255387@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yeah, I had to stop at 4 mo because my hips were in pain, I couldn't be confident that when I put my foot down that my leg wouldn't collapse. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9315&page=2#post-255320 Tue, 18 Jul 2017 11:40:49 +0000 ARobComp 255320@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>For posterity - ARobWife suffered from an incredibly bad back and had to give up cycling something like 3-4 months in. She's pretty frustrated about it, but bear in mind she does not have a sit up and beg type bike so she'd possibly be struggling on drop bars by now (6-7 months). </p> <p>She's still walking a lot, in fact she's out in the pentland hills as I type. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9315&page=2#post-237599 Tue, 29 Nov 2016 11:01:21 +0000 chdot 237599@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://twitter.com/bikesandbabies/status/797169384213061633" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/bikesandbabies/status/797169384213061633</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9315&page=2#post-234679 Wed, 26 Oct 2016 16:55:36 +0000 paddyirish 234679@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Mrs Paddy did a navigation course in the Pentlands when 7 months pregnant. The (stand-in) instructor's face was a picture... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9315&page=2#post-234678 Wed, 26 Oct 2016 16:53:10 +0000 chdot 234678@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"I remembered these comments and they gave me the confidence to keep cycling up until the last day of my pregnancy."</p> <p>That's good.</p> <p>Just looked at one of the links on the previous page -</p> <p>"</p> <p>I continued to climb right up until ten days before the birth </p> <p>"</p> <p><a href="http://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/page.php?id=2080" rel="nofollow">http://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/page.php?id=2080</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9315&page=2#post-234672 Wed, 26 Oct 2016 15:59:28 +0000 Iratesheep 234672@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Just jumping into this thread, I remembered these comments and they gave me the confidence to keep cycling up until the last day of my pregnancy. </p> <p>Nowhere terribly exciting - just to Blackford or Marchmont, but it remained much less effort than walking. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9315&page=2#post-234620 Tue, 25 Oct 2016 13:29:16 +0000 chdot 234620@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><img src="https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5636/29924228813_6fd43b8087.jpg"></p> <p>"</p> <p>Chris Bruntlett (@modacitylife)<br /> 24/10/2016, 16:36<br /> "Building a successful cycling city is more than just paint and planters." Our ten cycling lessons from the Dutch: <a href="http://www.modacitylife.com/blog/ten-cycling-lessons-from-the-dutch" rel="nofollow">http://www.modacitylife.com/blog/ten-cycling-lessons-from-the-dutch</a> </p> <p><a href="http://pic.twitter.com/oVyrrkdgc2" rel="nofollow">http://pic.twitter.com/oVyrrkdgc2</a></p> <p>" </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9315#post-98452 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 22:52:47 +0000 nearefare 98452@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>My better half cycled up to 8 months pregnant, i.e until it was uncomfortable to be squished up, pretty much same with numero duo. did stick to canal etc but then she's has always been nervy on the road. She's convinced it made the birth easier by keeping fit. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9315#post-98047 Fri, 25 Jan 2013 19:52:07 +0000 sallyhinch 98047@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>There was a David Hembrow post ages back about Dutchifying an old rigid mountain bike to give it a similar geometry. Will go in search </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9315#post-98044 Fri, 25 Jan 2013 19:22:54 +0000 Uberuce 98044@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>You can travel a good bit of the way to Holland just by getting different handlebars. </p> <p>Maybe not if you've got drops'n'STIs at the minute, but if you bodged a pair of them onto Dutch risers and it still worked, that would win hard. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9315#post-98013 Fri, 25 Jan 2013 14:37:23 +0000 chdot 98013@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"You've given me courage to continue cycling as long as I can."</p> <p>CCE wins again </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9315#post-98011 Fri, 25 Jan 2013 14:34:13 +0000 Lezzles 98011@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Thanks Fimm et al. Its great to read about women who continued during pregnancy to do so much. I seem to be surrounded by people who think I should be tucked up on a couch throughout the full 9 months for fear of what might happen. As a scientist it grumps me out that evidence plays so small a part in the advice pregnant women are given. It also grumps me out that when I present people with the evidence I get the line 'Yes but what if....'. </p> <p>You've given me courage to continue cycling as long as I can. My route is now far far safer than it was (I moved house)and I'm going far slower than I have ever been. Cycling with a bump is a strange experience though. I like the advice to move my seat post - I do quite fancy one of the Dutch style bikes but I'm too tight. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9315#post-98007 Fri, 25 Jan 2013 14:09:09 +0000 fimm 98007@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Nothing about cycling, but I thought the O.P. might be insterested in this article about climbing when pregnant: <a href="http://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/page.php?id=2080" rel="nofollow">http://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/page.php?id=2080</a></p> <p>(might I also say congratulations?) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9315#post-97894 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 10:53:30 +0000 Min 97894@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>My corporate and salesperson-on-commission conspiracy spider sense tingles when I read about the apparent ease with which you can turn a helmet from magical truck-deflecting forcefield to skull mounted death trap, but I'm not a materials scientist... </em></p> <p>I dunno why you'd believe the first claim but not the second though. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9315#post-97884 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 10:29:29 +0000 Bhachgen 97884@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I noticed Sarah Storey quoted the other day saying she has raised her stem 10mm to accomodate her bump. If the pros are doing it... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9315#post-97839 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 19:34:58 +0000 Uberuce 97839@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>My corporate and salesperson-on-commission conspiracy spider sense tingles when I read about the apparent ease with which you can turn a helmet from magical truck-deflecting forcefield to skull mounted death trap, but I'm not a materials scientist... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9315#post-97805 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 15:01:02 +0000 Min 97805@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yes, much as I like recycling you would never know if a second hand lid has been compromised. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9315#post-97791 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:59:20 +0000 SRD 97791@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>ours definitely hadn't been in an accident, but it may have been dropped on the floor (a few times) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9315#post-97762 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 11:10:10 +0000 Uberuce 97762@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Gap in the market for a used sprog helmet business? Effectively a long-term rental service, really. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9315#post-97758 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:32:57 +0000 SRD 97758@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Helmets the main problem. My wee boy's just outgrown his 46-53 helmet, which he's been wearing since c. 4 months (but he does have a big head). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9315#post-97749 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 09:59:58 +0000 chdot 97749@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Of course cycling <em>after</em> pregnancy is important too - for health and transport. </p> <p>You'll be able to get plenty of advice from people on here when the time comes -</p> <p>'how soon', what kid's seat/trailerbike/tandem etc. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9315#post-97614 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:13:52 +0000 Snowy 97614@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Mrs Snowy happily cycled about 20 miles/week until a couple of weeks before birth, both times, saying that it wasn't uncomfy because she'd never stopped cycling. (Mind you, it didn't reduce dad's stress levels...with the ride being through Princes St 'n' all...) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9315#post-97580 Mon, 21 Jan 2013 15:56:12 +0000 recombodna 97580@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Those crazy Danes love a bit of cycling whilst pregged up to the max!!! <a href="http://www.copenhagenize.com/2011/09/cycling-with-contractions-to-hospital.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.copenhagenize.com/2011/09/cycling-with-contractions-to-hospital.html</a> I cycled through both of my (wifes) pregnancy's </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9315#post-97576 Mon, 21 Jan 2013 15:28:16 +0000 bdellar 97576@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>A friend of mine cycled though pretty much her whole pregnancy. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9315#post-97573 Mon, 21 Jan 2013 14:45:02 +0000 Min 97573@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>HG - I once met a woman whose mother had cycled to the hospital to give birth to her. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9315#post-97571 Mon, 21 Jan 2013 14:26:49 +0000 kaputnik 97571@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>I wonder if there is an aerodynamic advantage in your bump </em></p> <p>Perhaps if you were attempting supersonic cycling there might be something in the "coke bottle" area-ruled shape that is the most efficient means for breaking the sound barrier. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9315#post-97567 Mon, 21 Jan 2013 14:16:15 +0000 holisticglint 97567@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Appears to be considered normal to keep cycling in many parts of Europe but this may be taking it a bit far:</p> <p><a href="http://www.copenhagenize.com/2011/09/cycling-with-contractions-to-hospital.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.copenhagenize.com/2011/09/cycling-with-contractions-to-hospital.html</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9315#post-97563 Mon, 21 Jan 2013 14:09:26 +0000 DaveC 97563@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Are you hinting at anything Arellcat? ;-) </p>