Comments on: Gardening while pregnant

By: Andrea Bellamy

Andrea Bellamy — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:19:51 +0000

Kendra – enjoy your spring – and the newfound flexibility!

By: kendra

kendra — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:17:51 +0000

This is the first spring in four years that I haven’t either been pregnant or nursing and is therefore the first time in four years that I’ve had the energy to garden. It feels incredible! I wish you all the luck with your pregnancy!

By: Andrea Bellamy

Andrea Bellamy — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:59:20 +0000

Sheri – I’m sure you’ll be just as “good” at gardening – maybe just not as flexible! Good luck to you.

By: Sheri

Sheri — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:32:25 +0000

I will be 6-8 months pregnant when this summer rolls around, and I want to garden so bad. Thanks for this post. This will help to remind me that it’s okay to not be as good at gardening as I have in past years.

By: kate

kate — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 02:35:34 +0000

I have clear memories of being 7 & 8 months pregnant and having to be careful not to fall over. My balance was terrible and I constantly forgot that I had a baby attached to my front side.

I always thought that my son felt so comfortable out in the garden because I spent a lot of time there while I was pregnant. I talked often about what I was doing and what I was planning in the garden.

By: Andrea Bellamy

Andrea Bellamy — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 01:15:23 +0000

Anna – Sweet. Thanks for your comments.

Deb – I can’t even imagine, although I guess I’ll figure it out soon enough!

Colleen – oh yes, the shoes! I need to invest in some slip-ons.

Jennifer – and if not as a newborn, then I’m sure soon enough there will be!

Robin – yes, I miss being able to bend at the waist!

Jennifer – I’m due around the same time, so I know exactly how you feel.

Erin – you paint a lovely picture. Thanks for the tips!

Paula – let me know how it goes with the backpack!

Mr. McGregor’s Daughter – good plan. :)

By: Mr. McGregor's Daughter

Mr. McGregor's Daughter — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 13:53:06 +0000

Oh I remember it well! I did a lot of weeding sitting down. Invest in a couple of extra baby monitors – yours will get dirt encrusted in no time as you use naptime for gardening.

By: Paula

Paula — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 04:03:09 +0000

Last year I thought, “Great! Baby is due in August, I have all summer to get in the garden”; children have a special way of making themselves known. I forgot how much “The Belly” interferes and how the heat saps your will to weed. The neighbours gave me a hard time for sitting in the garden to work! I have invested in a back pack carrier for quality gardening this summer-we’ll see! Best of luck to you.

By: Erin

Erin — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 02:21:27 +0000

I put in my first veggie garden in new raised beds last spring with a big baby belly. Our first arrived July 26th.It’s amazing how much gardening you can actually do while sitting on your butt! I work as an RN so took off the last month and got so bored and it was so hot here. We did lots of u-picking at berry farms the last few weeks. Saskatoons were easy on 4-6 foot bushes. The raspberries were beaten down the previous year, so I sat in a lawnchair to pick. By the time strawberries came around(in MB) I just took my chair out to the field to keep my husband and friend company. One of my favorite belly pictures is me in a red shirt looking as ripe as the two buckets of strawberries I’m holding!

Gardening with a newborn wasn’t bad when I had the energy. Put him in the carseat, add bug net and sun shade, set it all in the wheelbarrow and away we went! This year it will be with a toddler – likely more complicated!

Hope you found cloth diapers you like. We use Motherease out of Virgil, ON. The thought of composting diapers or liners makes the microbiologist in me cringe. If you can get daddy on board with helping wash diapers you will call yourself a woman blessed. I am.

All the best. Enjoy your blog. -Erin

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 23:06:22 +0000

I know how you feel. I’m due at the beginning of April and everything is difficult right now. Gardening starts in April where I am and honestly with the baby out and a toddler I still don’t think I’m going to get much done!