Typo in title, meant to say NOT knowing, not now*
I’ve been doing yoga for the past year now. I took a break for a few months and got back into it about a month after I found out I was pregnant in November. So I was about 8 weeks when I went back for 2 sessions, took January off, then started back up this month. I have been going one day a week for the last 3 weeks. It’s a gentle yoga class, but I know I’ve been doing closed twists in the scheduled flows. Not in excess or anything but still. I told the instructor today I was pregnant afterward and she said “oh I wish you would’ve told me before!” And she said “really the only thing off limits is closed deep twisting”. I have a noticeable belly at this point. There were a few twisting poses today. Not a twist pose, but oddly enough the one I felt the most uncomfortable in was child’s pose honestly. Obviously now I won’t do those poses anymore that I know and she said she’d give me modifications.
So…have I been like cutting off my blood flow to my baby? Now I’m horribly paranoid. Anybody else out there twist in yoga and have a healthy baby? Sos
Edited to clarify I don’t have a desire to do twisting poses, just that I’m worried that I’ve done them and that I’ve done some harm.
I’ve been doing yoga for the past year now. I took a break for a few months and got back into it about a month after I found out I was pregnant in November. So I was about 8 weeks when I went back for 2 sessions, took January off, then started back up this month. I have been going one day a week for the last 3 weeks. It’s a gentle yoga class, but I know I’ve been doing closed twists in the scheduled flows. Not in excess or anything but still. I told the instructor today I was pregnant afterward and she said “oh I wish you would’ve told me before!” And she said “really the only thing off limits is closed deep twisting”. I have a noticeable belly at this point. There were a few twisting poses today. Not a twist pose, but oddly enough the one I felt the most uncomfortable in was child’s pose honestly. Obviously now I won’t do those poses anymore that I know and she said she’d give me modifications.
So…have I been like cutting off my blood flow to my baby? Now I’m horribly paranoid. Anybody else out there twist in yoga and have a healthy baby? Sos
Edited to clarify I don’t have a desire to do twisting poses, just that I’m worried that I’ve done them and that I’ve done some harm.