During my 1st trimester I was deathly afraid of pretty much everything. If I could have built a safe cocoon and stayed inside of it, I probably would have. I'm a worrier by nature and the realization that I had the life of the teeniest tiniest person inside of me had me in super crazy worry mode.
When my first trimester was over and with multiple assurances from my doctor that not only was exercising safe during pregnancy, I should be doing it at least 4 times a week, I bit the bullet and got back on my elliptical machine one day.
I only lasted for about 5 minutes... because... call it coincidence... those 5 minutes happened to also be the first time I experienced round ligament pain...
I abruptly got off and did not consider getting back on again until recently.
I guess now that I've had the assurances of 1. a healthy ultrasound 2. a baby who moves regularly and 3. an expanding belly, I figured that it was time to get back on that elliptical. finally. As panicked as I was about doing something to hurt the baby, I was almost equally panicked about more than 9 months without an exercise regimen.
So I've been doing elliptical. Very. Very. Slowly. For between 30 and 40 minutes a day.. 4 or 5 times a week... like the doctor ordered. I feel really great about it.
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