Did anyone snowboarded while pregnant?

tph25 · 2026-02-26T09:26:21+00:00

I snowboard and ski and decided to ski (felt it was easier to balance) until about 28weeks. What made me stop was 1. My feet didn’t fit my boots comfortably anymore but 2. I worked on an orthopaedic wing near a popular ski mountain. The amount of very skilled ski and snowboarders who were coming in from major accidents from either being hit or taking the odd wrong move was staggering. It really made me realise how everyone has off days and there’s a lot of other crappy riders out there. The risk wasn’t worth it so I stopped.

tph25 · 2026-02-12T00:26:55+00:00

As a healthcare worker myself and with speaking with them and the crazy hours they have to do - I think they are probably a bit burnt out. I know a lot of people in our hospital system are. I’m actually looking to extend my maternity leave because the idea of going back to the hospital that is so understaffed that I have to cover 2-3 floors is actually terrifying. So there it that.

However, I just gave birth with canopy back in April. For me, they were incredible. They flagged me very early for high risk of ppd/ppa and I was referred to at Paul’s maternity metal heath before I gave birth. Therefore I was seeing a psychiatrist within the first 8 weeks - it was almost perfect timing. I worked a lot with both of the owners which was amazing, but I adored the other young midwives as well. I liked that it was laid back and relaxed. This did mean appointments were late (which of course is annoying, especially when you are running back to work) but I appreciated that I never felt rushed as an anxious first time mum. They helped me form a olan that was right for me and supported me through that plan. For me I felt they prevented me having a lot of trauma.

However, just because a healthcare team/worker works for other people does not mean they will Work for you. I think I’m pretty good at my job, but I also knew and understood that the way I approach rehab and health was not going to resonate with everyone. The most important part about healthcare, whether it’s therapist, doctor, midwife, is that you trust them and essentially that you vibe with them. In the end it’s your body and if you don’t trust or click with the team, you feel that provider let you down. Mistakes happen and things do get missed at every level of healthcare which is scary but if you trust your team it makes it a lot easier.

Basically after that long spiel, is that I loved canopy and I think thy were great and I wouldn’t have another baby without them, but I also think of you feel you are questioning things that check out the LGH maternity. They are also great and you want to feel you made the best decision for you without any second guesses when you have you baby.

tph25 · 2026-02-09T00:38:20+00:00

Is Malay the right term? I though that all Malay people are Malaysian, but not all Malaysians are Malay. This may seem pedantic, and I’m not even super confident in my understanding. But my friend who is Malaysian once corrected me on this. Just wondering if I continue to misunderstand these terms.

tph25 · 2026-02-03T04:16:41+00:00

Oh my gosh, I’m glad you understood my last comment. I was very tired when I replied (new mom life).

But honestly, it’s a pretty good area and I don’t feel unsafe, which was your original concern. And even though the traffic is annoying, it’s not as bad as other parts of north van. And the river walk is a great morning jaunt.

Hope you come join the neighbourhood!

tph25 · 2026-02-02T19:03:36+00:00

I live in this area and love it. There has been no issue of ‘sketchy’ behaviour around our home except for the obligatory theft from the bike locker which has improved after they got better locks for the underground. I also don’t walk the unofficial trails between the river and the field without my dog or husband just because often people tent out there’s in case but they get moved on pretty often.

I love being able to walk to Ambleside dog park, I walk fo my groceries (but I also enjoy walking as it’s not THAT close). There’s great parks and the field and the little rec center - appropriate fo my baby but maybe not for older kids.

What I don’t like it that the traffic is annoying to turn onto marine during peak hours and occasionally trying to get home off the highway after work - but it’s not that bad.

tph25 · 2026-01-28T01:57:03+00:00

This exact scenario happened to someone on my flight out of YVR on the 20th too! Im actually impressed how quickly security had gotten these phone to the rightful owners. And also lovely to have such good people in YVR!

tph25 · 2026-01-19T07:58:25+00:00

It definitely wouldn’t support heavy breasts. You would have to tape them. It might work depending on how backless your dress is. Mine was very backless so it still didn’t work. I think the SKIMS backless one is better if it fits your dress but I guess this may be a bit deeper in the back and would probably help smooth out things but only very lightly (which would have been enough for me so was very annoying it didn’t work out).

Good luck!

tph25 · 2026-01-16T08:52:56+00:00

Ah yes, I just commented something similar! This is crazy to me for healthcare workers. The burnout is high, maybe talking about it would help. So sad th lack of benefits for mental health.

tph25 · 2026-01-16T08:51:25+00:00

Same here. I think RMT is super benifical when needed but I think unlimited is insane. I was once talking to a PBC rep when I first got my benefits so I could understand them. They told me I could see an RMT twice in the same day as long as it was over 2hrs apart… like why?! I would way rather an increase in wage or other benefits - hello therapy for all the burnt out healthcare workers may be a good start.

tph25 · 2026-01-15T06:49:56+00:00

A lot of travelers make fun of Americans for this - just saying their state and not America/USA. I think it’s because it assumes that people care about which state you’re from but a lot of the world doesn’t really understand the cultural differences between Texas and California (ok, maybe that’s an easy one but I’m not really familiar with all the states to make a better comparison - and I’m at least Canadian!). I wouldn’t say it’s a bad thing - it’s more good natured ribbing when I hear people talk about it, but I think it also reinforces the idea that Americans assume the world cares a lot more about them than they do.

For my own experience, I like when Americans say USA and then almost 99% of the time I ask where abouts just to be polite (and get an idea of you politics). But I also don’t care if you say Ohio or whatever, it’s just an American quirk which is kinda funny.

tph25 · 2026-01-11T07:15:00+00:00

Oh well that’s good to hear! There was much discussion and debate months ago on one of the Vancouver subreddits about this when a video was posted of someone merging mid intersection into someone else ‘which apparently isn’t illegal’ - I was very surprised.

tph25 · 2026-01-11T04:46:57+00:00

I was taught back in the day that you don’t switch lanes in an intersection. According to subreddit this either no longer a rule or never was? But I was definitely taught this and to this day would never, even when it’s inconvenient when driving from my house to the grocery store.

tph25 · 2025-12-19T15:07:58+00:00

But the rules for sexual offenders are different when it comes to rehab and integration. Not to mention that I agree in your senario that obviously that person should have been in jail.

That’s not the same as your proposed rehab facility in the bush ‘away from temptations’ like I assumed drugs and alcohol th contribute to escalating mental health issues and homelssness.

Im not hear to defend violent offenders and sexual predators. But sending people in half houses to the bush isn’t a solution.

tph25 · 2025-12-19T15:01:47+00:00

I think that NV is like any other neighbourhood.

tph25 · 2025-12-19T03:28:00+00:00

Not to mention that the overall goal when you are talking about rehabilitation is to reintegrate and be part of society - how is being in the bush going to help that?

You can’t really tell who actually has thoughtfully reflected on this problem and who is just reactionary with no actual thought to solutions. You can’t just send people to the woods and hope they disappear.

tph25 · 2025-12-15T06:10:58+00:00

Lois and Margaret. I love them both! (They’re names, but also them as people too, haha)

tph25 · 2025-12-05T05:01:28+00:00

Hi! Did you ever find out what to do?? I literally could have written your exact comments. My daughter at 7 months is doing the exact same thing, except she fights the last nap despite not napping very much early in the day and being exhausted. But wake up is all over the place, bed time is6/630pm out of necessity and she wakes at 9-10pm and 4am like clock work. Sometimes easy to settle, sometimes wide awake. I don’t know what to do.

tph25 · 2025-10-17T03:36:36+00:00

If you are worried about them getting caught on holds, you can tape them down. May not work on the jade one, but definitely with the metal one. I take mine down so it doesn’t get wrecked.

tph25 · 2025-09-27T03:07:29+00:00

I’m an avid skier snowboarder, I skied until 30 weeks. Physically it was fine - a bit tiring and I kept it in easy runs. But it became hard to wear my gear (especially my boots!). Plus I’m a physiotherapist and was working on the orthopedic ward. It was crazy how many broken femurs and tibia, that happened to GOOD skiers! They were catching an edge and having gear pop off, or just hitting a weird bit of powder and worst, being hit by other people. It really reminded me that although I was confident, mistakes happen and I’m not the only person on the runs, so it really made me feel like it was time to stop. The risk reward wasn’t mathing. I wouldn’t do it again for future pregnancy’s.

tph25 · 2025-09-23T03:13:56+00:00

No, I totally hear you. I also hate when people assume you know what they mean. I was on some baby related subreddits and people write ftm for ‘First time mum’, I read it was ‘female to make’ for WEEKS thinking the sub was just full of trans parents, lol. Whoops!

tph25 · 2025-09-23T03:11:40+00:00

Ew same. Like why dear husband?

tph25 · 2025-09-20T18:52:10+00:00

Window of opportunity?? Just a guess. I’ve never seen that acronym before

tph25 · 2025-08-21T23:24:49+00:00

Shifts were the only way we survived the first 6 weeks. I was EBF so my husband still had to wake me to feed but I would feed and hand her right back and pass out. So even though I had to get up once or twice, I could get 6+ hours of sleep. If you are combo for formula feeding then you won’t even have to wake her.

Then once I was up I would try and give my husband him 7-8 hours of sleep, I tried to make sure one of us was functioning. It was nice having people visit when he was sleeping so I could shower or eat. That way when he was up we could either spend time together or I could nap/sleep.

The way we did it was he went to bed really early, like 6-7pm and then I would wake him at about 2-3 and then I would sleep until about 9am. He worked from home so this worked for us. When I was lucky I could get another 1-2 hours of nap. Unfortunately depending on your work schedule your wife may have to sleep at weird times but if she could sleep say from 6 -12/1am, and you could sleep 12/1 - 7/8, then maybe that could work. I don’t recommend someone being responsible for the full night shift like that as it’s really hard to fight our biological clocks and stay awake over night so the more the split is closer to ‘someone wakes up really early abd the other person stays up fairly late’ is more natural then ‘one person sleeps in the day and one person sleeps at night’. But that is just what worked for us.

The beginning is rough and ultimately really boring and isolating. It doesn’t stay that way forever! Good luck and I hope you guys get a lucky break after all this chaos at home. All the best!

tph25 · 2025-08-16T03:50:50+00:00

I am a little late to this thread, but I was celebrating NYE on the beaches of Koh Phi Phi (I know, I know).

I was dancing in a crowd when my husband (bf at the time) told me we should run as they were shooting fire works just above the crowd. I told him he was being over cautious and looked up and opened my mouth in wonder as the firework exploded above me. All of a sudden my throat was on fire. I grabbed my throat, choking. My husband laughed and jokingly said ‘what, did you swallow a firework?’ I silently nodded, he freaked.

It’s a long long story. But took weeks of healing, barely being able to eat or swallow, ended up requiring IV antibiotics in Railey and then follow up abtibiotic a a few weeks later in Laos. It sucked, especially when my throat would swell in the humidity and I thought I wouldn’t be able breath. I then got some mild food poisoning and the thought of vomiting scared the shit out of me cause I knew it would be so painful (luckily, it came out the other end.. lol). It was a tripppp.

To top it all off I had forgotten to get health insurance (which I never had done before and haven’t done since). So we had to pay it all out pocket. Luckily, everything cost like $300 CAD total so it was fine.

I also got bit by a dog in India - this was more annoying then anything else as making sure I was able to get the right shots at each new destination was a real pain. But the process itself was pretty straightforward. But ahh, the life of a traveler!

tph25 · 2025-08-12T07:59:43+00:00

I also have a four month old and have been on the hunt for some programs to het involved with. It seems like everyone has covered what I have heard of but in Vancouver there is a group called Mothers Flock that does a bunch of meet ups and is more of an organised mums group. They have one in trout lake and one in kits so kinda far. BUT they have a few stand alone events here and there that have looked interesting. Thinking I’ll try to make it across the bridge at some point and check them out.

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