Great article from pregnancy exercise.

http://www.pregnancyexercise.co.nz/how-to-avoid-diastasis-recti-during-pregnancy/

I have been doing planks in the floor. I think I will start elevating my upper body on a bench or step to take the pressure off my lower abdominals

Strange vibrations

So I am at the start of 16 weeks and today have started feeling a gentle vibrating feeling in my pelvis. The only way I can describe it, is like having a mobile phone in your lap on gentle vibrate. The sensation only lasts for 5 seconds and occurs once every couple of hours, this sensation is not painful.  

I decided to google it, a variation of explanations came up in forums. 

Some of the suggestions are 

• baby moving

• baby against pelvic floor

• baby against a nerve

• uterus expanding 

So if anyone has any clarity on this please reply. Just curiosity. 

Toddlers Toothbrushing

So lately tooth brushing has becoming challenging with a three year old. One week she can be adamant to do it alone and then another week she just refuses. 

The occasions you do get her to brush her teeth she either spits out the tooth paste or feels 5 seconds is sufficient. The battle of the toothbrush is the last thing you want when your tired at the end of the day. 

So I have found a free app called Brusheez. It seems to be the answer to all our problems. You have monster characters you can chose from. If you child is a little older you can remove the teeth on the character to coincide with your own child's milk teeth lost. The timer can also be set to how long brushing time you want. 

Layla loves this app and actually gets excited to brush her teeth. She is still young so her technique isn't quite there yet, so I do tend to give her teeth an extra brush after. The little character shows the child how and where to put your tooth brush.

First trimester over

I feel I have been in hibernation the last three months. The tiredness and nausea has not been fun.

So at my 12 week scan I find out I am actually 13 weeks!!! Which is fantastic because I was originally due the same day as my sisters wedding. New due date is now August 16th! 
 

Layla-Rose understands there is a baby in my tummy, as I have a noticeable bump now. Bump has made an appearance much sooner than my first.
 

So roll on second trimester, I'm feeling good, back at the gym and have started to eat much more healthy again.
 

Scan

10 weeks!!

So it is true you show a lot sooner on your second. I'm only 10 weeks pregnant and when naked there is an obvious bump. 

When I'm at the gym and catch a glimpse in the mirror, I see skinny arms, skinny legs and a barrel of a body.  Bye bye waist line. 

It is slowly becoming hard to disguise my pregnancy. Clothing consists of blouses and leggings. I cannot wait to have everyone know and I can go back to wearing what I want 

Surviving

I am now 9 weeks pregnant and it's only now I am starting to feel human again. Between week 5 and 8 I felt so nauseous. I couldn't function it was so overwhelming. My heathy eating went out the window and was gorging on carbs.

I couldn't go to the gym, cook or even clean. Now I understand why they describe morning sickness like having a constant hang over. Luckily my partner was so supportive and did the cooking for me. 

Eventually I started actually being sick and that was when the constant nausea feeling disappeared. My eating is more under control and I can actually eat fruit and veg again. 

I'm back at the gym and have fantastic support from the personal trainers that are specifically trained in pre and post natal excercise. They are producing programs for me for each trimester which I will list up on here. I'm still doing classes with adaptations throughout. The main thing is to keep heart rate down and not to over heat. First trimester you can still do many of the exercises you were doing before but cardio is the biggest change, I cannot do to hiit training!! 

I really don't know how women manage to survive having morning sickness up to and past 12 weeks..