Pregnancy and Climbing

So far my favorite things about being pregnant are; Eating whatever I want. I mean I eat healthy and snack healthy but I'll also indulge in a mammoth sized bowl of ice cream with a banana and chocolate syrup and not even feel ashamed about it. I also will eat an entire sharing size bag of peanut m&ms because they don't have peanut butter ones in Japan but that's only on occasion to. Don't judge me. I may have eaten my weight in pizza tonight to but you can't tell me you don't have cheat days when you're on that (insert new diet fad here) diet. Feeling the baby move. It's the most bizarre thing but also the coolest thing in the world. Baby sits quite low right now and so therefore it feels like they're playing bongos on my bladder but hey, I know they're in there living their best life. Can't argue with that.  Watching my body change. You might think that's crazy because who wants to gain weight and feel huge as some women feel wh...

I'm going to start this blog by saying that I am pregnant, living in Japan as the title suggests. I have spent the first half of my pregnancy here. Been having appointments with a Japanese doctor and not once has he even mentioned COVID-19. The state I am in supposedly has the most cases in all of Japan and while none that we know of are in the city we are in, the schools and public spaces are closed here, yet not even my doctor is mentioning the virus or worried about us traveling in Japan and home? So no, I am not worried about it or worried about getting it. Am I taking precautions? Yes. I wash my hands regularly, I eat healthy, I take supplements and I stay home if I'm not feeling 100%. Which only happened twice this entire winter with having a fever only once. I'm more worried about the things in the long story I am about to tell. January - February I've been working in the snow sports industry for 14 years.  Every year it's the same, you get travele...