Pencil Pusher
07-02-2008, 03:15 AM
Ok, so swimming is supposed to be the best exercise when you're pg. You're weightless, you don't care how you look in your suit (well...you care a little less?).
So dh insisted that I needed a maternity bathing suit. It was traumatic to find one modest enough (for me) & expensive, but I bought a decent plain black one.
We went swimming.
It was ok. Yeah there are young male lifeguards that...I wish would go away. So ds told me I looked like a "peaceful whale." Maybe you can't really "swim" while holding a wiggling 1yo. Maybe I can't really "swim" at all.
But--at least w/out baby--it counts as exercise, right? You're moving. So it's kind-of a lot of trouble, but it's an indoor pool, there's a little bit of a breeze. I thought *maybe* I'd try to go up there every couple of days by myself & swim. Very unlike me, mind you, but I need to do *something.* They've also got treadmills, etc, if I wanted to do that.
The place is on campus, only a m from us, but I wasn't able to go much before because we couldn't work out sharing a car. That's worked out now. And I've got a suit. And I'm cranky enough that neither dh nor I minds as much if I go do something on my own while he's home, lol.
But get this. Since he's not taking any classes on campus over the summer, we can't use the facility w/out paying an extra fee. It's $70 for the summer! Now, that's for all of us, but...in a few weeks, I *know* I won't be going, kwim? Dh could still take the dc, but...as little as we went the last 2 semesters (w/ 1 car)...I don't think it's worth it.
But...my suit! I know all about "sunk cost," but I don't accept it gracefully. If I were sure we'd GO, I'd pay the fee w/ my eyes closed, to make it less painful. But these days, we mostly stay inside w/ the blinds shut, & when I do have to go out, something inevitably happens to confirm my suspicion that I should be locked up until I'm a couple of mos post-partum, kwim?
Y'all agree, right?
So dh insisted that I needed a maternity bathing suit. It was traumatic to find one modest enough (for me) & expensive, but I bought a decent plain black one.
We went swimming.
It was ok. Yeah there are young male lifeguards that...I wish would go away. So ds told me I looked like a "peaceful whale." Maybe you can't really "swim" while holding a wiggling 1yo. Maybe I can't really "swim" at all.
But--at least w/out baby--it counts as exercise, right? You're moving. So it's kind-of a lot of trouble, but it's an indoor pool, there's a little bit of a breeze. I thought *maybe* I'd try to go up there every couple of days by myself & swim. Very unlike me, mind you, but I need to do *something.* They've also got treadmills, etc, if I wanted to do that.
The place is on campus, only a m from us, but I wasn't able to go much before because we couldn't work out sharing a car. That's worked out now. And I've got a suit. And I'm cranky enough that neither dh nor I minds as much if I go do something on my own while he's home, lol.
But get this. Since he's not taking any classes on campus over the summer, we can't use the facility w/out paying an extra fee. It's $70 for the summer! Now, that's for all of us, but...in a few weeks, I *know* I won't be going, kwim? Dh could still take the dc, but...as little as we went the last 2 semesters (w/ 1 car)...I don't think it's worth it.
But...my suit! I know all about "sunk cost," but I don't accept it gracefully. If I were sure we'd GO, I'd pay the fee w/ my eyes closed, to make it less painful. But these days, we mostly stay inside w/ the blinds shut, & when I do have to go out, something inevitably happens to confirm my suspicion that I should be locked up until I'm a couple of mos post-partum, kwim?
Y'all agree, right?