I’m planning to go skiing with my husband for a couple of days, I’ll be 16 weeks pregnant.
I’ve been skiing since I was 3, and I’m a confident skier, though wouldn’t approach any complicated routes, keeping to easy ones. No complications, very easy pregnancy so far.
Anyone had experience skiing when pregnant? Just want some reassurance that I’m not the first one to do it.
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Hey so like you I'm a very confident skier and I wouldn't be worried about myself especially on blue or green runs however what you can't account for is others and having been taken out from behind skiing I can say you can't control things
Personally I wouldn't risk it, I realise that's not what you want to hear as a little skiing holiday sounds so good!

Hey Olga! I’m a confident skier too and I recently went to the mountains but decided I didn’t want to risk it (I was super upset tho). I also realised I would be super paranoid and somewhat tense which is never a good thing.

Also you may not be able to get insurance for winter sports while pregnant

Hey Olga! I had a similar experience / internal debate as recently had a ski holiday booked over NYE, which was booked before I found out I was pregnant. Similar to the ladies above, I avoided skiing more because of the risk of anyone else bumping into me! Skiing can be unpredictable and even the best skiers can have nasty accidents, I thought the risk of skiing & harming myself & my baby wasn’t worth the few days skiing we would have. I had super bad fomo when I was there seeing everyone ski, but it was also really lovely to relax in the mountains ☺️ for the sake of a few days skiing I would give it a miss, there’s plenty more opportunities to ski I’m sure. The regret is something went wrong would be worse than the fomo of not skiing xxx

Sorry to say but I also wouldn’t risk it. It’s unpredictable and like the others say even if you’re really good, someone else around you could make a mistake x

your comment made me laugh 😂 especially about killing an innocent beginner