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There was some discussion of cycling and pregnancy a while back (I could find the thread), so I thought there may be some on here who will be interested in this story.
SRD did you keep cycling for that long? ;-) Hope the wee one like riding in the trailer...
The thing that baffles me is that she had to buy lights for the bikes in case she went into labour at night. So basically, she doesn't normally use the bike for travel, but was making a point. Which I find kind of pointless.
I gave up cycling for commuting around 6 months, but then went back to doing the occasional ride when I was 8 and 9 months pregnant. I felt much more mobile on the bike, which was good. But found that my asthma and reduction in lung capacity affected how much I could really do.
Wee'un had his first ride at 5 weeks in papoose on New Year's Day - figured there wasn't much traffic then. He seemed to like it (well, he likes any sling and just fell asleep).
ps - if i'd cycled to ERI, he'd probably have been born at Cameron Toll!
I got the impression she was very much a sports cyclist and not a utility cyclist. It is an odd thing that so much of the English speaking world thinks of cycling only in terms of sport or leisure, and not as transport.
The Wee'un was really sweet when I saw him that day at the Farmers Market ;-)
The Wee'un was really sweet when I saw him that day at the Farmers Market
aww thanks. although my recollection is that he didn't have more than 2cm square of exposed face available for inspection :)
I have an arielist friend who continued to do dynamic and static trapeze as well as acroballance throughout her pregnancy, I will never forget the sight of a fully pregnant woman doing press to handstand...
Pregnancy hormones loosen your ligaments, so probably make some things more do-able, but i would think also seriously raise the risk of injury from things like handstands....
That day at the Farmers Market I didn't realise the bump was on the outside until you showed me ;-)
never mind dynamic silks! (thats two person, throwing and catching) She did say that her strength was vastly increased afterwards and she went back to normal about a week afterwards. She took it careful, but was much less worried than those around her.
"Wee'un had his first ride at 5 weeks in papoose on New Year's Day"
Cool. I'd assumed that carrying a human infant in anything other than a trailer or a seat was illegal so hadn't done it, though my bike's enforced riding-position isn't really upright enough for carrying anything other than an inanimate bag.
Im sure you can get a toddler in my ortlieb....
There's an article in this cycling webzine that originally appeared in the London Evening Standard called "cycling for two" - page 14 onwards. I think it's by the journalist talking about using an electrically assisted bike to keep on pedalling during pregnancy.
There's also a good photo series on cycling in the snow, with one by yours truly on page 25 :)
@SRD that is a very excellent picture of a tandem trike on your link. THe dad must rate the power from the kid's crank as the wean is strapped to the pedals. I have noticed that child no 3. actually boosts the pedalling when she is on the towbar in a way I do not recall from child no. 1 or child no. 2
What a shame that the poor kiddies in the photos got saddled (pun intended, in retrospect) with awful adult-sized full-suspension BSOs come age c. 10. Do they not do nice step-through, Sturmey hub-geared kiddies bikes in beige with wicker baskets for kids any more? Then they'd look well boss when they rolled up at school infront of all their pals.
This kiddy doesn't need a helmet because Mummy cut their hair to be the same shape. Some would argue that it's equally effective. It's good that their being started early on aero disc rims. Little time-trialist in the making. And with that wooden monocoque frame, it's obvious where they got the inspiration for the Boardman Olympic bike.
@kaputnik, you are taking a highly cynical line here, one which I am happy to add to. First tho, most of the pics on SRDs link are of mechanical apparatus of a cycling nature. Some of it veers off into middle class frippery {e.g. big dutch box at front of bike for four Monsoon/Oililly bedecked children and their model mum wearing a long flowing dress about to be mangled by chain} or the one above where I draw the reader's attention to the wee lad's Boden trousers. Boden, for anyone under thirty, being a range of clothing owned by an old Etonian where the prices are soo exorbitant that they only ever sell in their sales. Sale took place once at Hopetoun House the entire middle class parent demographic of Edinburgh was there. They wanted to hire me as I was able to shout very loudly from one end of the hall to the other [large, upper class hall built on slavery etc] to extract my partner from the changing rooms as our place in the very long and very middle class queue had finally reached the till. Years of shouting at DUFC games came in handy, whilst slightly revealing my long lost formerly working class origins. I have updated my shout of Buy yourself a pair of spectacles Referee to the updated - Ref, it is two for one at specsavers and also when the hapless Gary Kenneth makes another blunder - What's the frequency Kenneth?. [REM song I believe] so perhaps my formerly working class credentials are already looking slightly shaky and I will have to produce my granny's telly that worked off 50p pieces in my defence.
Gembo, much as I enjoyed reading the above (and I did!), it is all defeated by your admitting that you can recognize a pair of Boden trousers at sight!
....and lest we make unforgivable judgements, we should not forget that in south Edinburgh those of us who kit our kids out in Nippers and other highly identifiable kit probably got it at nearly-new sales!
and tuppence worth from today's guardian blog
Nice bit of safety advice there, hope you are taking heed:-
"The Royal Society of the Prevention of Accidents has some useful safety pointers– most injuries are caused when a child gets a foot caught in the spokes, work out how to make it as enjoyable as possible for him."
So have you worked out how to make getting the wee ones feet caught in spokes enjoyable?
@SRD - We used to frequent Nippers when lived in town. Maybe from there or elsewhere, but long gone to some other sproglet - a baby coat that was sown up at the bottom. Genius - stopped them kicking off and losing bootees etc. I am criticising myself SRD, in my commentary, as much as anyone else for buying into Johnnie Boden's marketing (when he has a sale) part of what that company aims at is a view that their stuff is well made [it can be, we have 15 year old from the older cousin's items] but not always and they use third world production sites too.
@Min - spokey dokes could add a slight positive twinge to trapping feet in spokes.
Yes, good thinking. Or training them to play tunes in the spokes with their feet?
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