tree climbing when pregnant!? Advice needed.

[Le Sanglier]

if it was my wife, i would say a big no.

 

It's just not worth the risk imo.

 

I'm sure you're a big girl & can make your own judgements on your abilities, but i would say there are too many variables in relation to trees & climbing to be a safe environment for someone in your position.

 

What if you slip and fall and land badly against a branch or trunk !

 

 

 

Stay safe for you and yours

 

 

 

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100% right

[Mesterh]

I think I would seek the advice of a midwife etc rather than your GP or course leader tbh.

 

As mentioned its usually falls that cause big problems rather than exercise which is encouraged..

 

Is it really worth chancing it?

[David Goss]

Normally i would say get yourself up the tree girl, BUT given that i have no idea what a fall in a harness may do to your insides or a slip and a bad slam into a branch then i would have to say get yourself up the tree girl, BUT no branch walking or any other fancy stuff just keep it simple and safe. Maybe just straight pulls up into the crown and back down again just to prepare yourself for when its time to do it for real.

Go with what you feel is right and you will be good:thumbup1:

[Mesterh]

Actually I meant to add but too late to edit, is it really worth listening to a bunch of arb blokes on a forum on this subject tbh! I dont mean my offense but it's not just your life we are speculating on.

 

Please seek specialist advice, all we can say is you can slip, you can fall you you can easily be injured and easily sustain abdominal injuries.

[janey]

Hi M, welcome to the 'site.

 

If your course tutors and your health care professionals tell you that exercise and climbing will be ok for you and the bump, why aren't you confident in taking their advise?

 

If you want to do the course, then do it, I'm sure your friends are only showing their concern for you by trying to warn you off of it.

 

If however, you will be aprehensive still, regardless of all the reassurances that you have been given, then don't do it. You will only put yourself at greater risk of injury by being so tense and the anxiety will not be any good for either of you.

[easy-lift guy]

I concur with woodpicker and most everyone else for reasons already stated. I am just wondering about your own reasons for this activity during your 1st Trimester? Will you be able to increase your own self esteem by attempting this?, ego, or some other reasons?

More curious than any thing else. I wish you the best. Take care and be safe.

elg

[Ian C]

I wouldnt bother but there again i havnt been pregnant either!

[Old Mill Tree Care]

Congratulations on your pregnancy.

 

I can't remember exactly what stage the foetus' ears and hearing develop, I think around 10weeks, but it can suffer permanent hearing damage from chainsaws and chippers from then on.

Not to mention the mental stress caused by the noise.

 

Ask medical doctors/surgeons, not tree doctors/surgeons.

[Daniël Bos]

Im looking for advice .......Any one else ever done this?

 

 

Now then, who of us has ever done this, cosidering excactly one(?) of the replies came from one that could have.

 

I think you have to make this decision all for yourself. Get other people's opinions but still you'll have to do what feels right to you.

 

When my wife was pregnant with our twins, she did some sheep-shearing alongside me in the first trimester, went on a driving (sleeping in the car) trip in Austria in winter during the second, and gave birth at home about halfway through the third.

At the same time she avoided a lot of activities that she would otherwise do, no lambing for example.

 

I'm not saying you should go out to prove how strong/fit/good you are, use caution, take advise and only do it if it feels ok. Your body will flush you with hormones that will affect your judgement, and push you towards the cautious side when it's needed.

 

Good luck.

[Czlowiek Drzewo]

Congratulations on your pregnancy.

 

I can't remember exactly what stage the foetus' ears and hearing develop, I think around 10weeks, but it can suffer permanent hearing damage from chainsaws and chippers from then on.

Not to mention the mental stress caused by the noise.

 

Ask medical doctors/surgeons, not tree doctors/surgeons.

 

good point! chainsaws and chipper and real loud and could cuase probs,

 

Also a harness can put a lot of pressure onto the stomach and hips and in tree climbing you ned to sometimes pull yourself up and over a branch..this could be risky.

 

to much risk i say.