Pregnancy and Climbing

Today was a more mellow day because I was still sore from climbing 2 days ago. One must listen to their body even more so now. We wandered to the crag and I let my fiance climb a bunch before trying anything. My subject; a 5.9 finger crack called Dinkum. I'm so glad the crux wasn't the start of the climb today. Got through the easier hand crack to a nice rest then wrestled the finger crack. While I didn't get it clean, I still got up it eventually thanks to the top rope. I lowered back to the good stance to have another (and what I hoped to be a clean) go. But, I was worked. This whole pregnancy thing feels like a workout already and pushing myself overboard is not the answer. Learning to say enough and try again another day.

Day 1 of going outdoor climbing while pregnant. ✔  Well, I'm 21 weeks and 6 days today, April 1st! No April fools. I climbed a crack and I climbed it 3 times. It was hard, it was rewarding, it made my whole body shake and I cried. But, I did it. At no point was I not having fun. Did I get frustrated? Hell yeah, it's a whole different beast trying to lug yourself up a crack being 10lbs heavier with a growing belly and boobs the size of watermelons. Come to find out its graded at 5.8 so wasn't as easy as we thought it was. Some say it could even be 5.9 (probably at the crux which was at the start) but I am crap at judging grades. I was saying that's probably like a 5.6 crack with a 5.7 crux and I'd be running up it no problem if I wasn't pregnant. But you know, I need to give myself some credit. Yeah, maybe I haven't been climbing every day like I did before winter but we did go to the climbing gym a few times and I was getting up the 5.8/5.9s fairly ea...