[Oh dear]

Hi all

I have had a suprise BFP in the last few days and our netball season starts this weekend coming.

Because we werent TTC or even considering another bub i have been training for the start of the netball season with the intention to play all year.

Now my problem is the unexpected BFP. I can't all of a sudden tell anyone i'm not playing now because the first thing they will assume is that i am PG. This is a small country football netball, everyone knows everyone type club.

I thought i would probably play the first few games and see how i feel after that, but already i know that i'm not going to go as 'hard' as i normally would. That in itself may be a give away for the people who know me.

So what i need is some excuses, i do have sciatica which does keep me off the court every now and then. My BF is the trainer so its going to be hard to get anything past her, because she does know me so well.

The other aspect is the lack of alcohol

The fact that i don't have a rum in my hand after the game is going to be a give away as well.

We have just got a new car, so i can use the excuse that i am driving but again it will only last for a couple of weeks before some people get suss.

So my question is, did/do you continue to play sport after a BFP and how do you keep it a secret in such a small club? What excuses did you come up with?

[Honeymummy]

Hmm thought it was a non contact sport??

I was wakeboarding up until about 12 weeks. I had a few stacks that made me want to take it a bit easier.

But we didnt care if people found out I was pregnant early or not - so not sure about excuses there!

[sentimentalist]

perfectly fine, in my opinion, for you to play.

I played with pregnancy number 3 , up until I was 20 weeks pregnant. If i did it again I'd stop around 14-16 weeks.

As for drinking, try the 'I'm on a health kick... doing a detox... driving... on antibiotics... until you're ready to spread the news.

[minidiamond]

Congrats on your BFP ! If it were me, I wouldn't play - but then I'm old & had two early m/cs. I also umpire/d netball - it most certainly is a contact sport !

I got my first BFP while playing but wasn't in a 'tight' group - so I just told them I was PG & couldn't play anymore. They weren't amongst my close circle of friends so that made it easy.

I kept up personal training as it's much easier to modify obviously.

If you don't play centre court, can you drop back to GK or GS and cite your sciatica as playing up ? That way it won't be so obvious if you don't go hard (like us centre court players who run around like madwomen, hehe).

BTW, I like your re-hydration techniques - rum ??

Seriously .. maybe ask your GP what he/she thinks on the netball question ?

This post has been edited by Liltuss: 02/04/2012, 04:09 PM

[le_auteur]

I played until I didn't feel comfortable playing anymore (I play hard, if there's a tussle on court, it usually involved me!). I play mixed and ladies and I stopped around 8w because I was a) frustrated at having to hold back a bit, and b) didn't feel as though the (small) risk was worth it after that. A girl on my ladies team played until about 18w - that's much longer than I would have gone. I think you're relatively safe to play until your uterus begins to move up and put of the protective zone of the pelvis, around 12w for most people. Before then it's quite protected. In terms of excercising, you're fine to continue doing what you were doing prior to being PG. If you're comfortable, keep playing

[Oh dear]

Wow 20 weeks! I would still like to play but maybe until about 10wks.

The only reason we (me) are not telling anyone because this is a suprise 4th baby. This after i have emphatically (sp?) told people for the last 3 yrs that we are done.

It is also a second prenancy. I'm not good at keeping second pregnancies.


edited to add:

Liltuss i usually play in GD if i can, but to play WD as well. Dropping back to GK maybe an option.

if there's a tussle on court, it usually involved me!).

me too! It can certainly be a contact sport.

This post has been edited by Oh dear: 02/04/2012, 04:16 PM

[fairyflossfart]

Hmm thought it was a non contact sport??

Netball a non contact sport?
That's funny.

I know women that have played netball until 20-26wks. I also know a woman who play soccer until she was 24wks and then she was back playing 2wks after a csection.

[sentimentalist]

yep 20 weeks. (from memory, may have 18/19 but I was well and truly showing) I too play GD but moved into GK, was playing twice a week but they felt it unfair to the other team as people were not ocming near me!

Congrats too on the pregnancy, pregnancy 4 here for me too now and also a suprise after telling people for years no more for me!

[jess1980]

I played basketball until I was 25 weeks pregnant with my last pregnancy but this time round I stopped at 10 weeks as I'm pregnant with twins so thought I'd better stop

[deejie]

I played with DS1 to 16 weeks (ladie's comp) and to 12 weeks in the mixed comp. Same for DS2.

The mixed comp I stopped a bit earlier because it is rougher. It was not unusual for me to be bumped, bowled over and generally pushed around by the blokes in the goal circle.

In the ladie's comp I went from GA to GS for the last 4 weeks of the comp.