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12-09-2010, 19:52
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2004
Location: annapolis
Boat: st francis 44 mk II catamaran
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If I Bump My Belly One More Time . . .
I think it's a pretty small tribe of women who have done their pregnancies while aboard. This is #2 for me being pregnant aboard (#1 was on an even smaller boat), but the belly is bigger and I swear now that I am in my 9th month I am smashing my poor belly against everything on board. Good think I have plenty of padding for the baby  I am getting so. freaking. uncomfortable. And pumping the head to flush for the 40 times a day I have to pee. Pure torture.
If I were to get any bigger, I fear I would wake up one morning and be stuck in our cabin until birth. :lol
(Cindy, Schoonerdog's wife)
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12-09-2010, 20:22
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Cruising
Boat: Privilege 39 Catamaran, Exit Only
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When we sailed across the Pacific, we met a couple of sailors headed for New Zealand. They had two yachts, she was pregnant, and they were engaged to be married once they arrived in New Zealand. The two yachts sailed in sight of each other. When the pregnant yachtie slept, the boyfriend kept watch for both yachts. When the boyfriend slept, the pregnant yachtie kept watch for both yachts.
They actually made it to New Zealand without a problem.
Being pregnant on board is a real challenge. But imagine what it would be like to sail across the Pacific on your own yacht while pregnant. A potentially whole new dimension to misery.
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12-09-2010, 21:04
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: In transit ( Texas to wherever the wind blows us)
Boat: Pacific Seacraft a Crealock 34
Posts: 4,115
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Hang in there!! This too shall pass.
Erika
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12-09-2010, 21:23
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cat herder, extreme blacksheep
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: furycame alley , tropics, mexico for now
Boat: 1976 FORMOSA yankee clipper 41
Posts: 18,967
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maybe the lady wasnt miserable when she was sailing... could be, ye know-- there are some of us who would rather be sailing than stuck in any way on land. mebbe she be one of us.
as for anyone preggers , on land or at sea--- gawd forbid-- i am not one of those who had fun while preggers, but i did meet some ladies who realllly enjoyed the situation and also did stuff!!!
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12-09-2010, 23:13
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Annapolis, Maryland
Boat: 1978 44 foot Camper & Nicholsons Ketch
Posts: 342
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Schoonerdog, not much longer. I hope all goes as planned for your delivery. Just think of the great biceps you are going to have from flushing that head ;0)
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13-09-2010, 06:02
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2009
Boat: Nassau 42 SV Ceol Mor
Posts: 794
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Nature is so smart. She makes the end of pregnancy so miserable that we actually look forward to labor.
Hang in there! You will be cuddling your sweet little lump o' ballast soon!
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13-09-2010, 09:23
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2004
Location: annapolis
Boat: st francis 44 mk II catamaran
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[QUOTE=Mimsy;520480]Nature is so smart. She makes the end of pregnancy so miserable that we actually look forward to labor.
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That is soSOsoSO true!
If you want to read the funniest account of being pregnant on a boat click here and then on the left click on "TALL TALES" and then from the list choose T.P.B.P. It's a first trimester Pacific crossing. And it's a fabulous read!
I just keeping thinking if my water breaks on the new ultrasuede.... nooooo! I am sitting on towels
(Cindy, Schoonerdog's wife)
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13-09-2010, 10:04
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Boat: Nassau 42 SV Ceol Mor
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Amniotic fluid is sterile and ultra suede is stain resistant. I say throw caution to the wind and sit to your hearts content!
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13-09-2010, 10:31
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cat herder, extreme blacksheep
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: furycame alley , tropics, mexico for now
Boat: 1976 FORMOSA yankee clipper 41
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i always place a bloat towel under kat--mebbe, if you are worried about the upholstry, that may be a good idea..... will help sop up some of the flood.....
and remember--you will be in much better physical shape than any other mother....have fun and may labor be easy for ye....
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13-09-2010, 11:53
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: St. Georges, Bda
Boat: Rhodes Reliant 41ft
Posts: 4,131
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so many projects--so little time !!
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13-09-2010, 12:29
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Malvernshire, on the sunny side of the hill.
Boat: 50' steel canal and river cruiser
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Hang in there girlie, not long to go, and your all set for a water birth.
If baby was born beyond the 12 mile limit, what nationality would it be?
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13-09-2010, 12:54
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: St. Georges, Bda
Boat: Rhodes Reliant 41ft
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Quote:
Originally Posted by anjou
Hang in there girlie, not long to go, and your all set for a water birth.
If baby was born beyond the 12 mile limit, what nationality would it be?
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Auntie Anjou  --has a nice ring to it
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so many projects--so little time !!
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13-09-2010, 12:57
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Carlsbad, CA
Boat: 1976 Sabre 28-2
Posts: 7,505
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We left Tahiti for Hawaii when my wife was 7 months pregnant. Passage to Hawaii was uneventful. When we got to Hawaii we anchored in Keauhou Bay, Kona, HI for a few days. Our procedure at anchor was to inflate our Avon Redcrest and keep it alongside so we could use it to climb back on the boat. I took the other dinghy and went into town while my wife hung out on the boat. She decided to go for a swim but ran into a major problem trying to get back on the boat. With her expanded stomach, she couldn't roll over the side tube of the dinghy so was stuck in the water. She paddled around trying to get back on the dinghy for quite awhile without success. A passing fisherman noticed her plight, pulled up alongside and helped her into our dinghy. Needless to say, she didn't try swimming by herself until after our son was born.
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13-09-2010, 13:02
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Central California
Boat: M/V Carquinez Coot
Posts: 3,782
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Quote:
Originally Posted by anjou
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If baby was born beyond the 12 mile limit, what nationality would it be?
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And where would one go for a birth certificate?
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13-09-2010, 13:16
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cat herder, extreme blacksheep
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: furycame alley , tropics, mexico for now
Boat: 1976 FORMOSA yankee clipper 41
Posts: 18,967
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Quote:
Originally Posted by markpierce
And where would one go for a birth certificate?
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how far away from your favorite place in the world are ye?????
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