Bellydancing mamas?

[BelovedK]

I am a dancer, I have been dancing different styles for years and I am in love with the art form. I have never really kept up with the dancing during my other 2 pregnancies though. I DID dance a little while in labor with DD, mostly hip circles though, they helped. I fully intend to keep it up through this one.

Is anyone else dancing?

I feel that I should hold back on the sharp moves and shimmies, but I really love the slow and snaky moves, and the circles and figure 8s. I bellydancing.


I also have a closetful of costumes that I won't be ablt to fit in. I'll have to figure out something to perform in once I am really showing, I reaallyy want to perform in public while really pregnant.

Anyone taking lessons, or anyone dancing professionally?

[BelovedK]

Oh, I also want to add that my dear friend, a fellow dancer has invited a circle of 4 women (dancers) to dance with her during her labor. She wants us to adorn ourselves, and make it sacred. I am going to bring my veil because she loves watching the veil dancing. I am so touched that I was invited She really is a dear friend and she is due in about a week, so I am on call.

I want that. I want to be at home with a circle of women supporting me through dance (though when you are actually in labor, you never know how you are going to feel)

[MI_Dawn]

I am so stalking your DDC, hoping to get a BFP and end up here... I LOVE bellydancing! I'm not a dancer, by any means, but I love it anyway...

[judybean]

Not a bellydancer, but I wish I was! Even just to have the passion for it all that you do.. I can FEEL the energy through your post!!

[gcgirl]

Count me in! I really want to be up to a performing standard someday. Don't know if I'll ever get there, but the practice is so fun and worth it! I love dancing, all kinds of dancing, but there's something so womanly about bellydancing. I just love it. I'm not cutting back on any sharp moves or shimmies until second trimester - I danced with DS1 all the way up to the eighth month and only relaxed my moves around month six.

[xixstar]

I'll probably take classes off and on, my schedule gets crazy. My teacher is pregnant too and danced all through her last pregnancy. I was wearing yDD for a while for classes too.

[L J]

I certainly do not call myself a belly dancer yet, I am still working on remembering where my hips are after over two years of stubbornly wearing Spanx after the birth of my son. LOL.

But, for the past couple of months I have been attending a once a week beginners class, and I LOVE it! I plan to keep going through this pregnancy. I can't shimmy (yet) so I doubt there is any harm in going.