Friday 26 April 2002
I have just been for a big
walk down to the Health Food Shop and back, stopping at the
library to put Artemis
Fowl on reserve. I think this is the most exercise I have
done (apart from some gentle yoga) in weeks and I can't believe
how incredibly unfit I am.
Fish and chips, playing the
Sims and chocolate are just adding to my general state of
unfitness. Also, I guess while you're building a baby your
body ceases to look after itself in the same way - there is
so much else to be done. So much blood to pump and organs
to develop. Next week I start an aqua aerobics class for pregnant
women. I am worried about the usual things like finding a
pair of bathers before then (while winter clothes fill the
shops), wobbling around in public, and the terrible associations
I have with the smell of indoor pools and childhood swimming
lesson traumas. But I know it will be good for my fitness
and good for my back and so I must soldier on.
Last night I did a little
yoga and then listened to a "Guided Relaxation for Pregnancy"
that a woman from my yoga class taped for me. Lots of deep
breathing and accepting that my body has been designed for
child birth and imagining all the women around the world who
are pregnant; "Imagine the pregnant women in India in
their saris picking rice, imagine the pregnant eskimo women
in their igloos, imagine the pregnant women in Italy preparing
pasta" - it really says all this! Then I had to imagine
pregnant animals - cats and cows and deer... but apart from
this rather curious spin on creating life it was really very
peaceful and I think I felt the baby move. At this stage any
movement is really only meant to feel like butterflies or
nerves in your stomach and is extra hard to recognise if you
have never experienced it before. Perhaps it was just my imagination
but you never know.
Tonight we are off to a trivia
night with a table of 8 friends. Our secret weapon will be
our good friend Cookie Monster who won a car on Sale of the
Century... we will be the quiz masters! Well, we have a better
chance of answering at least some of the questions now that
he is involved.
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