Sometimes you just have to laugh...

[dharmama]

Last night I was teaching a beginner yoga class and I went to demonstrate shoulder stand (which I haven't done in a few weeks) and for the life of me...I could not get my butt off the floor. I am REALLY comfortable with this class - all women - and so I just totally started laughing and I was like...well I guess I won't be demonstrating this for you tonight. :rolleyes:

When I got home I was telling DH about my humbling experience...then later when we were having a romantic moment it was more of the same...like :scratch huh....I don't think I can do that anymore. Let's try this. I felt like we were playing Twister....okay you try putting your legs here....now let me see if I can get my arms over here. :LOL

So....just wondering if anyone else has any funny stories to share about body-awkwardness during pregnancy.....
:D

~Erin
:love

[Spark]

Ha! That was sooo funny! What a great story about yoga class. (The time with DH, I think can all relate to!)

This is my body story --
In mid-December, my mother started laundry for me and then took off. I went to change the laundry over and realized that I couldn't! I couldn't get my arm down into the washing machine to retrieve the clothes. My belly was so big I could no longer reach! I really needed clean clothes though, so I did everything outside of humping the machine to get the clothes. (Since then my husband propped the washer up high enough that my belly isn't an issue.)

HA! I'm still laughing about the yoga class!

[georgia]

Once I was at a drugstore buying Epsom salts and bandaids, and I was tired. I decided to sit on the floor to decide which brand to buy (:eek, I used to be a big comparison shopper). Anyway, when I'd decided---I couldn't get up off the floor. Miss Graceful that I am---I tried everything. I ended up rolling over onto my hands and knees and crawling over to a bench for some support. Heave-ho!

:blush

[dotcommama]

I have two stories to add.

When I was pregnant with my first I worked in an office. There was a little pathway that I always took to go to the ladies room so I wouldn't be going through the main area. Anyway, it was a narrow space between a cubicle and a floor to ceiling post. Well one day I went to squeeze through and realized I was too wide :o I then turned side ways and tried again - no still too wide. I turned around to go the other way only to realize there were a few people behind me watching the whole process and laughing.

Toward the very end of my pregnancy I was filing some things in my bosses office. The filing cabnet was way down low so I decided to sit on the floor and file, but then - similar to georgia - I realized I couldn't get back up. My boss was on the phone and I was trying to quietly get his attention to help me up. I finally had to interupt his conversation and ask him to pry me off the floor. We both had a good laugh.

[SamuraiEarthMama]

i had a good friend who was due about three weeks ahead of me. she wound up needing a place to stay for the last few weeks of her pregnancy, and of course i invited her to stay with me.

the hallway was pretty narrow, and we had a good laugh each time we had to try to pass each other... we would bump bellies, and one would have to go up or down to get by.

we also decided to move furniture together (nesting, i guess) and we were in hysterics trying to rassle things around the room while wobbling like Weebles. i guess you would have had to see it... the kids thought we were insane.

katje

[KKmama]

In my last pg, I was shopping, and in a really narrow aisle. A man had parked his cart near mine, and I needed to get by. He made a little tiny gap for me to squeeze through (I was 9 months pg!). I laughed, and I told him there was no way I was going to fit through there... I think it really embarrassed him.

[dharmama]

Oh my gosh...I love picturing all these pregnant bodies crawling down the aisles of stores, dangling over washing machines, bumping bellies, squeezing through narrow passages, moving furniture...

:rotflmao :rotflmao :rotflmao

[Sarah'sMama]

I love reading all these stories! Goes to show that mothers will do absolutely anything for their babes!'

I went to a Barenaked Ladies Concert last night and stood almost the whole time. Little baby looooved the music, but when I sat down in the car on the way home, my knees hurt *so* bad from standing so long, and they still hurt today! I guess carrying about 27 extra pounds isn't so good on the ol' joints!

:LOL :LOL :LOL

[PattyCakes]

dharmama - I had a similar experience at a Pilates class a few months ago. I was really just showing and I tried to do a "jack-knife" (very similar to a shoulder stand)- which I was able to do the week before. I couldn't get my butt off the mat. All I could do was start giggling - then the lady beside me started laughing. Hysterical!

Every week I have to take something off the Pilates list because I realize my belly just gets in the way. This baby is sitting so low, just trying to bring my knees into my belly is a challenge.

The really funny part is when I try to get in my car - we have one of those stupid "club" things on the steering wheel and I jab myself in the belly Every.Single.Time. You'd think I'd learn.

The worst was the other day I was at Target and had to make a pitstop at the restroom. Well, I was wearing a winter coat, scarf and sweater over top of OVERALLS! I nearly wet my pants trying to get undressed to pee! (never mind the logisitics of being a large 7 months in a very small stall). I've made a note not to put a potty training toddler in overalls - it can only lead to bad, bad things. :)

And I can totally relate to the romantic "twister" interludes. Good grief.

I went to shave my bikini line last week and I realized that I couldn't move my belly out of the way enough to get to it. Heck, I couldn't even FIND it. Scratch that too! Fortunately for the neighbourhood it's not swimsuit season. :)

Dh said to me the other day as I was getting dressed for work - "those undies look more comfortable than the ones you usually wear" and I had to say "I'll have to take your word for how they look cos I can't see them at all". HAHAHAHAAH.

Ok... one more... I was at the train station last week waiting to go home from work. It was unusually warm and I was suffocating in my winter coat so I undid it as I waited for the train to come. I was so tired, I couldn't WAIT to get home and wasn't paying much attention to anything/anyone around me. As the train pulled in, everyone just moved out of my way so I could get on the train. (usually it's a mad crush to get on) They kept looking at me with big smiles on their faces and I couldn't figure out what was going on - but I figured - heck, at least I'll get a good seat. Then I realized that they didn't realize I was pregnant with my coat on etc - so with it undone my large belly just announced itself. Cracked me right up!

Sarah'sMama - I'm so jealous that you went to a BNL concert!! I went to see them YEARS ago (while still in ONT) when they were still new. It was so much fun!

[Jennifer H]

When I was about 40 weeks 5 days pregnant with DS#1 I went to the grocery store. I wanted a certain item and it was on the bottom shelf and there were only a couple left so they were way in back. I must have stood there trying to get it for five minutes. I would twist this way, then that way, then bend this way and that way. I could not for the life of me get it. It was mid-day so the store was not really busy. Finally I walked to the front of the store and had to ask one of the employees to come help me!

He was a young kid and I think he thought I was exaggerating the level of my inability to get whatever it was!

[GoodWillHunter]

Ya know, the romantic Twister is totally fun!!! :LOL

I actually can't see the scale when I step on it. I have to really twist to see it. Not that I want to, but I give it the old college try. The only really funny thing that happens to me is DH walking behind me and quacking. That's funny!

[citizenfong]

Okay, my story's a bit more embarrassing, but it's still a funny image to me to this day.

I was about 7-8 mos pg with ds and dh and I went to IHOP for brunch one Sunday morning. Well, breakfast betrayed me and I had to rush to the bathroom. The stalls were EXTREMELY narrow--pull your elbows out from your body and they hit the stall walls.

Well, I have rather short arms for my body ("though not freakishly so" as I was once told by a costume designer :LOL) So the bigger my belly gets the more work it is to employ a high level of personal hygeine in certain areas (it's really hard to wipe me bum). In this case I couldn't get my legs wide enough to allow room to get back there! I sat there for several minutes trying to figure out what to do. I had started to consider that I might have to get the next person who came in to go get dh to help me figure it out!

I finally was able to hitch one knee up and kind of hang it from the stall wall. I almost couldn't get it down...

[dharmama]

Oh gosh...I haven't even thought about shaving and other hygeine issues. :LOL What an adventure...

[SamuraiEarthMama]

Originally posted by citizenfong
So the bigger my belly gets the more work it is to employ a high level of personal hygeine in certain areas (it's really hard to wipe me bum).

oh, i'm there right now! i've got some sciatica that makes it so my right arm cannot reach a THING... so now i'm a lefty, and it's NOT easy!

man, i hope it clears up fast because i feel like the world's biggest bathroom klutz right now...

katje

[KKmama]

I forgot about the stupid thing I did when I was pg with ds... We were getting ready to go somewhere fancy, and I was ironing a shirt (rare event) for dh. I was doing it in a bra and panties. At one point, I got a little burn on my tummy, next to my belly button. :eek I think I was just going about my business, forgetting that I stuck out that far...

[rubelin]

KKmama, I burned my belly while ironing, too!! It was a prett ynasty burn, though not too big, and hte Dr wa mad at me, said I could have damaged my uterus if it had been too deep. We had to make a new rule in the house, "no pregnant ladies ironing in their underwear!" LOL!

I can't remember getting stuck anywhere, but I did give myself a pedicure when I was about 8 mo pregnant last time. It was like something out of Cirque Du Soleil, thank goodness nobody was around to see my contortions!!

[mommajubilee]

I was in massage school when i was pregnant with ds, and i kept attending until about 2 weeks before my due date. i was working in the clinic, and i felt great doing the massages. except that when i worked on someone's neck/back, my belly would keep bumping into their head!! :LOL it was very hard to keep it out of the way.