Yesterday I started exercising. I just did 30 minutes of walking on the treadmill to test the waters and felt fine. Today I continued, adding a few minute intervals of easy jogs. I am following a "back to running" post-partum plan in one of my pregnancy fitness books, Running While Pregnant, which I totally recommend. A great read, good resource I went back to several times during pregnancy at different phases. Anyway this back-to-running plan is mostly walking, with about 3 brief runs (i.e. 1 minute long the first day and working up from there). It's a two week plan so I should be back to running by then.
I am playing it by ear, not knowing how workouts will go. Probably just take advantage of nap time. That means our family schedule has to be a bit flexible, as I have been wanting to really get on a schedule with school at a certain time and office hours for business; and we probably will find our general groove, but for now it just has to be more like "Baby is sleeping - I am on the treadmill!" or "I am nursing, come read some books!" etc.
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