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Anyone have any experience to share? Or know any friends who have skied when pregnant?
Until how far along have you skied? Until you can't fasten your salopettes anymore?! Also how soon after having a baby have people felt up to getting back on their skis?
I am a midwife but have no personal experience of this yet!
However I have been asked for my thoughts a couple of times just recently and so I thought I would ask here..
Thanks!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I also have no experience of this, but I remember a fairly lively debate on this subject "over at the other place". The general feeling was that you shouldn't ski while pregnant, but several people hotly disputed that!
I think that if I was pregnant, I wouldn't want to run the risk of falling and causing damage to the unborn.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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The mother of a friend from my junior gate-bashing days fell down a crevasse when she was 7 months pregnant with him. He was a bit odd but pretty normal considering. 
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I just went and had a look in the other place for you, the conclusion in the end seemed to be that up to 20 maybe as late as 26 weeks you should be ok provided that you don't go to high altitudes keep below 8,000 to 10,000 ft as above these altitudes the oxygen is sufficiently thin to damage the unborn child, a quick trip up and down at those altitudes should be fine but no taking lunch or dawdling there, certainly no staying at altitude, Also of course avoid crashes and falls, I think if you have a good standard of skiing and don't over exert yourself you should be ok, a lot of course would depend on how you feel each day 
Hope that helps
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I think it's down to personal choice. If they have tried for a long time, or if there have been early complications then they probably won't want to take the risk.
No matter how carefully you ski, you cannot control those around you who may bang into you. Personally my feelings are the slopes will be there next season, but one slip and your baby might not.
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Thanks DG! I didn't realise there had been a discussion over there... I will go and have a quick look!
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There was a photo back in December on the Lake Louise website of a british lady (6 months pregnant), this caused an absolute uproar on the other side of the pond and when I caught up with the photographer I asked him what the deal was. He said that she was absolutely throwing herself down mogul runs and was fitter than most of the people on the mountain and was a tri-athlete who hadn't given up ANY of her sports. Bloody well good on her I'd say!
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Related just about, but one practice that should be firmly discouraged is skiing with baby in those backpack carriers... the number of times I've seen that, how stupid can you get. I remember one liftie arguing with a woman - he refused point blank to let her take the draglift. Others let them through. I wonder if there are any firm rules on this in the resorts.
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Its got to be personal choice and responsibility.
Aside from altitude effects if you are very high, then if you are generally fit - then the exercise element of skiing is probably beneficial as you keep active and have the benefit of the feel good factor of being in the mountains. The chances are that you will be more cautious - so will not go for challenging runs - but enjoy ones that are easy for your ability.
As I see the biggest danger is what you can't account for - other people. I have had my skis clipped so many times - and just the one chance that the clip results in a fall would keep me off the slopes. For me its an avoidable danger so I probably wouldn't risk it - but I certainly wouldn't judge other people for doing it, if they felt the risk was acceptable
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sarah do a search with pregnant in the search field, has about 80 comments.
PG chairlifts in Wengen area specifically forbid children in backpacks, I'm not sure about draglifts, probably not as there would be no other way arround, biggest problem is with people who don't realise that the kids in the backpack are slowly turning into popsicles, I'm not sure if this has ever happened despite the stories that say it has
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There was a story last season of a dad who skied with his kid in a backpack, and the kid froze to death. I presume it was true.
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Elizabeth B, Now you mention it, I'm sure I remember that story
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DG I've done the search...thanks!
After reading the threads on this over on the 'other side' I am a bit worried now that I may have opened a huge can of worms!
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You know it makes sense.
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Don't worry, Sarah, we've lost our principle agent provocateur for this sort of thing (although we'd like him back!)
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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I originally typed my first post as "let battle commence", but then changed it!
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Poster: A snowHead
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Whilst in La Rosiere, I saw a guy skiing with his young son on his shoulders! And not too slowly at that. The guy seemed very in control and adept, but I did wonder about some of the other novices that were in the immediate vicinity.
Hear hear, Ian - where is he?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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When in La Plagne a few years ago, a baby died while in a backpack, the father was skiing not knowing the baby had died of cold! Truly awful. No-one we knew, but word went round the resort pretty quickly as you can imagine.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Mark, dunno - someone tried to get contact through ski club but he may have signed up using a disposable/defunct e-mail...
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sallyanne, that really is tragic. Even with your own children, you can't imagine how that discovery would make you feel.
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Mark, I also emailed him through Friends Reunited, but no response.
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Elizabeth B, I have to say, it's a shame he decided against joining us over here in that case. Unless he's using a pseudonym, of course.
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I think we'd have spotted his style 
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Just in passing, how many of the old forum regulars have defected from the other side? Most? Half? ???
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Good question? It depends on what you class as regulars. I reckon that most of the regular posters have made the trip across, but I know that there were plenty of lurkers. The other thing to add into the confusion was that many regulars had several pseudonyms,therefore it's hard to classify how many people were there.
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Elizabeth B, Several? That really confuses things, what's the point?
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Members of SCGB were automatically logged in under their own name. If they wanted to post anonymously then they came up with a pseudonym. Several people were known to come up with multiple log-ins and have conversations with themselves 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Elizabeth B, Ah, the 'if you can't get anyone else to agree with you, agree with yourself' syndrome. A big problem on unmoderated usenet, should be banned on moderated web-based forums, I reckon....
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Admittedly, one of the conversations that took place, between several dead scientists, was way over my head 
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You know it makes sense.
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Thanks all.
Ian, Elizabeth, Mark...the absent poster you speak about...would he be the one of errant twaddle and garrulous something fame? Bit slow to catch on sometimes me but if him then yes I too had a couple of blunt replies from him on the other side!
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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sarah, we're (or at least I'm) referring to Kevin McClean (aka Beef).
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Elizabeth B, had no idea he was also Beef. Doh!
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Elizabeth...I had spotted his replies when looking at the archived thread on the other side earlier this am..not very nice at all.
No there was someone else who was also quite rude but it wasn't him.
PG thanks for that link, I agree it's sensible.
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Sarah, I presume you're referring to someone called David?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Think that was him...have we lost him too?
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You never know.I'm sure if he apologises, promises to be good, and offers a large donation.....maybe u brain would consider his application
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sarah, I'm a nooby: I thought all the "interesting" pregnant posts on SCGB were from Kevin (where are you Kevin?).
It was fascinating to read all the posts. All opinions were non-medical except one, and he didn't claim to be an obstetrician. But right under our noses is the greatest information source ever: the web. I just typed in "ski pregnant" into Google and got 4 opinions on the first page (Alta Vista not so good):
http://www.hamline.edu/~wnk/nordic-ski/1995/msg01048.html
http://www.ifyouski.com/Health/Guide/Pregnancy/
http://www.skimag.com/skimag/evolution/article/0,12795,325792,00.html
http://www.skimag.com/skimag/fitness/article/0,12795,543592,00.html
http://www.travelinsurance.co.uk/travel/Travel-While-Pregnant.htm
I'm an anaesthetist so no expert in this area. The presumed problem by most posters is injury to the baby. This is probably the least of your worries. I can think of 4 possible problems:
1. Travel by plane (immobile and hypoxia)
2. Altitude (hypoxia)
3. Injury to mum (lax ligaments)
4. Injury to baby (trauma)
If you read all the articles (especially http://www.skimag.com/skimag/fitness/article/0,12795,543592,00.html) you will see that even expert opinion is vehemently divided. I would agree with DGO: in general you should be fine up to 26/28 weeks and maybe consider Europe rather than USA (lower resorts). And I think the post suggesting you should listen to your body is quite right as well - if you feel up to it: do it.
Later on in pregnancy you won't want to do anything!
I would have let my (ex)wife ski when pregnant.
(Meanwhile I am off to canvas obstetric colleagues - get back to you later)
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P.S. Your baby is probably much more at risk from Apres Ski. Can you resist all that lovely wine? What about all that passive smoking?
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My wife and I cancelled our ski plans for this season on discovering that she was pregnant. She is a very good skier capable of holding her own on any given terrain and could conceivably have moderated her skiing to suit. But the thought of her or the unborn Klammer coming to harm through collision or innocuous fall was enough to make our decsion.
Our consultant was in agreement, although medically skiing early in pregnancy is not a problem persay, the risk is not worth taking. He did however say that she could go with me but not ski, Claire did not share that part of his view
We will however be making up for lost time next season.
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My wife is currently pregnant, and we took the decision very early on that it generally wouldn't be a good idea for her to ski at all this season. There may be no medical problem with skiing whilst pregnant, but the risks are still far too great. Missing one season is a small price to pay for a healthy baby.
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