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I had my first strong Braxton Hicks last week 🏆 It started off feeling like lower back ache combined with mild period cramp, which built slowly and spread up my spine and across the top of my uterus just below my ribs. It held there for about a minute or so in a tight muscle contraction. Reminded me a bit of when you’re holding an intense yoga posture in class, and your muscles are contracting and squeezing and you want to move on but the teacher tells you to hold, and so you do. You hold, and you breath, and you keep holding, and you keep breathing, and you hold a little longer, and each breath is one more breath to carry you through, and then finally after a minute or so it eases off. Just like that. But in some ways it’s kind of easier than that because you don’t need to have the mental discipline to hold your body in place, it’s all involuntary, I don’t control that held contraction of my uterus, all I have to do is get in the zone and breath through it 🌬 Made me feel more nauseous than anything else as we’d just eaten a big meal 🤢 but it wasn’t really painful, or even that scary, despite not knowing whether it was BH or the real thing... I just had to be like, ok, this is happening. (At the same time I’m glad it wasn’t the real thing, would have been a bit of an interruption to the honeymoon plans...!) It has given me some added confidence that I can really do this birth thing 💪🏼 It was uncomfortable, sure, but if that’s my muscles way of training up before the marathon of labour, I’ll take it! Who needs the gym these days anyway? 😂 #gains #uterusworkout #pregnancyfit #35weekspregnant #braxtonhicks #pregnant #pregnancy #babybump #pregnantyogateacher #pregnancyyoga #pregnancygym #breath #practiseandalliscoming #loveandalliscoming

35 weeks today! 🤰🏼 Still on a bicycle, still smiling, very slow on the hills, taking my sweet time 🚲👍🏼 Saw the midwife yesterday and apparently baby is on the cusp of engaging (where his head drops down into my pelvis in preparation for birth) Means he COULD be as little as 2 weeks away! 😍 But no rush bumpy, you come when you’re ready to #35weekspregnant #pregnancy #pregnant #pregnancyexercise #cycling #activepregnancy #thirdtrimester #babyengaged #bump #stmarys #scilly #islesofscilly #scillyisles #summer #holiday #babymoon #honeymoon #loveandalliscoming

Paradise found 🌾 ☀️ I’m back teaching yoga & pilates this week @ubsportfitness & @harbornepfc but I will keep trickling our smug honeymoon pics up here 😎 Looking forward to seeing you all again on the mat soon! #honeymoon #babymoon #scilly #scillyisles #islesofscilly #cornwall #tresco #paradise #holiday #sea #ocean #beach #island #34weekspregnant #pregnant #pregnancy #travel #mytresco #sunshine #summer #loveandalliscoming

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