Similar to the recent post about airplanes and bumper-cars, this week's babycenter helps clarify some more questions about what activities you should and shouldn't do while you're pregnant. One question was about dancing: "Is a strenuous dance class safe during pregnancy?"Can you guess the answer?
The answer is maybe ...If you're not a high-risk case and you are willing to modify your dancing a little bit. They suggestthat you avoid jumping, that you use fewer arm movements, and that you keep one foot on the floor at all times. Sounds kind of like marching to me.
We were asked to help teach a group of Young Single Adults (mostly university students) how to do some swing dancing for tonight. We've been asked to this kind of thing several times in the past. It all started when we first moved to Ottawa. We went to a church dance and we were just messing around with some of the moves that we picked up here and there, and suddenly a rumour went around that we'd been on the university dance team. Shortly thereafter, we got a phone call from someone, asking us to teach a group of teenagers how to swing dance. We explained that we weren't very qualified teachers, but that didn't dissuade them one bit.We ended up getting some instructional videos from the library so that we could learn the steps properly before we set out to teach anyone else. We picked up enough from the video to pull off a decent lesson, as well as learning a few new tricks. We've probably been asked 3 more times since then. It's funny, if you asked us 5 years ago, neither of us would have predicted that we would ever be in a situation where we were teaching other people to dance.
Well, tonight didn't turn out so well. Someone is decorating the church for a wedding, so we couldn't get in there to do the dancing. That's probably just as well, because it would be hard for us to pull off some of these moves while keeping one foot on the ground ;)
5 comments:
My friend is about 20 weeks along, and she just ran a marathon two weeks ago! My OB/GYN told me that his wife did triathalons while she was pregnant! He said that if you were doing a certain type of exercise before you were pregnant then you can continue while you are pregnant if you keep your heart rate below a certain point. I can't remember what that point is, though.
The 4-year wait has made us more paranoid. We will do almost ANYTHING they recommend if it will help ensure a safe pregnancy.
I think you are wise, D & R. In your type of dancing, D keeps his feet on the floor most of the time, but R rarely does. A lovely waltz would be grand !
I would use any excuse I could find to not do a marathon or triathalon !
I think you are wise too. Better safe than sorry. Besides, after a certain point in pregnancy almost every physical activity feels like strength training.
Dancin Pants... Derek your an inspiration to all of us!
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