Working out and making babies.

I've been reading a bit lately. Which is sort of a big deal for me- I really don't have much patience for reading. I picked up the book, "Exercising Through Your Pregnancy," and it's amazingly riveting. All this time people-- from doctors to relatives-- have been pushing pregnant women to cut back exercise or limit it to yoga/hippie crap during pregnancy. I mean, random people from family members to coworkers have little comments to make about my running already, but studies show that not only does working out help, working out up until the day of birth helps. Women who stop working out in the 3rd tri lose the benefits to their L&D. And the studies were based on moderate/hard weight bearing workouts. Wow.

For example, women who work out at 50% of their pre-pregnancy level (and at least 20 min at a moderately hard level 3x a week) had fewer birth interventions, fewer inductions (29% vs 53%!), more births at 39/40 weeks, and faster recovery and weight loss post-partum.

Yay, science!

My plan was always "run as long as I can." I think I might run longer than that. I hope y'all hold me to that. I've dropped to ~15 mpw (mostly 3 milers) and doing the workout and yoga dvd's. Since I wasn't marathon training this year 15 is a little more than half what I was doing, so I think we're square.