Yes, please. Sign me up. I’ve been continuing my yoga for the last six months, although not with the same frequency or fervor as before. Between the pregnancy and the Seattle summer (80 degrees and sunny every day) I get quite a bit hotter than I used to. Before, I had gotten so used to the heat that I would barely break a sweat in class. Now I kind of dribble out of there. Other obstacles include tight outfits, acid reflux and a list of positions I can’t take, but other than that… class has been quite rewarding.

I read in one pregnancy book to avoid working out. In a book with plenty of good advice, that suggestion was just ridiculous. I’m supposed to get 30 minutes of exercise a day (I’m lucky if I get that every day), and it can help with all of the crummy symptoms. Research suggests that the yoga will help with labor and all sorts of other things. As usual, I find it to be the perfect well-rounded activity for me, before and now. (And hopefully will help me get my girlish figure back after, if Mike has time to watch the baby.)

No, the baby doesn’t really react to the classes. I think he gets lulled into a coma with the movement. I have to skip some stuff, so I give myself some built-in rest periods, and I modify lots of poses. It’s been pretty intuitive to figure out how to change my practice, although I’m really just kind of making it up aside from a few modifications I had been taught. If it doesn’t feel good or is too hard I just don’t do it. A special thank-you goes out to the Zantac I’m taking.

We don’t have a prenatal class, and I probably won’t venture out to one. I’ve talked to a couple of other women at the studio who have tried it elsewhere and said they were so bored they wanted to cry. (We Baptiste folk are used to a little more action in our classes, it’s FAR from stretching and breathing.) I don’t think those classes are for me! I’ll stick to my regular ones, especially Mike’s weekly class… I can only go to that class for another couple of months! I have some DVDs, including one made by two of my teachers, that I can use if going to 90-minute classes at the studio gets too hard… or too sweaty.

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Eight months since my last post… I’ve pulled the blog from the edge of extinction, gave it a make-over and breathed life into it again. Hello to my one or two remaining readers.

The last eight months can be summed easily: Work. BABY.

I’ve pretty much been working for one of my local clients since before the time of the last blog post, with a little time off here and there in between projects. I’ve also been busy incubating the future offspring — coming soon, November 2011. I’m sure my two readers know about my pregnancy, so I doubt this post is killing any drama.

I’m anxious to get the blog up and running again. Hopefully it’s like riding a bike — you don’t really forget how. I thought I might want to document my next three months, with a big change right around the corner.

So, hello again blog. I’ll finish dusting you off and fixing your broken links and getting your plug-ins all working again. You’re really kind of a mess, but I don’t think it’s showing.

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