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I had to ease up on the intensity of my exercise, but I still did the same thing up to the 3rd tri. Then my doctor told me to stop exercising and I'm blanking on the reason why... It wasn't serious, just precautionary.

With my first and second I walked to work 40 minutes total every day.
With my third I run around after an almost three year old and almost one year old all day.

I pretty much just walk a lot and carry around 20 or 30 pounds of squirming baby/preschooler.

Yep, second pregnancy I was very active, went to the gym regularly for nearly all of my pregnancy.

First time around, not so much.

Second L&D was much faster, smoother, easier on my body and recovery.

Nooope. Wasn't really exercising before, and they tell you not to start anything new. I just remained relatively active.

First and second- yes
Third- not so much. I need to start going again

I start out exercising, then have bleeding episodes, and am told not to by doctors

With LO's pregnancy I didn't exercise at all until about 17 weeks, and by then I was out of shape and didn't do much more than walk and occasional elliptical.

This pregnancy I ran until 9.5 weeks, then had an episode, now I've been instructed not to exercise until 2nd tri. FX I can pick back up with running, and add in yoga at 13 weeks.

I ran through my 35th week. However, I'd been a runner for more than 10 years at that point, so felt like I knew my body well and it felt natural to me. I definitely went slower and was cognizant of my heart rate. I had an unplanned c-section, and think one of the reasons I bounced back so quickly is that I was in okay shape when I delivered. No regrets!

Nope! I was too tired and lazy to. I did try to go for walks in the evening just to be mobile, but other than that, nope! I didn't exercise before I got pregnant either so there wasn't the prior drive/motivation for me to.

I did prenatal yoga into the 2nd trimester - when my pack of classes ran out. After that, I didn't exercise much - did a lot of walking, though.

I did yoga and swimming up until about 22 weeks. My gym membership was prepaid for a year, and the year was expiring right around 22 weeks, & I was starting to get uncomfortable. I showed early. Plus my gym does not have child care. So I've decided to let my gym membership go until about 2 months postpartum and then I will look into different options.

Also I am a teacher so I am on my feet, walking around, for 8 hours a day as of 33 weeks today.

I did prenatal yoga, which was less intense than what I had been doing (hot yoga).

With my first, no. Then I learned the hard way that losing pregnancy weight is no joke, so for my second I did a lot of walking/barre. But like @ms.line I still gained plenty of weight and 7 months postpartum I feel good and am pretty toned, but still need to lose 12 pounds - and that's despite amping up my game to working out five days a week (barre, spin, Cross Fit)!

@BrandNewMom: Wowza! Were you at the gym when it happened? That's kind of an awesome story.

I did yoga 3-4x/week before getting pregnant, and am just getting back into that schedule at 18 weeks. I hadn't been running enough before to get back into it, but I briskly walk the dog instead. The first tri was rough so I'm excited to have the energy now. But I'm feeling the need for major modifications in my regular yoga classes as the belly grows!

@YogiRunner: I was! But it was our apartment complex's gym, so luckily there was no one there.

No. I didn't exercise before though ether, other than walking on weekends.

For my first pregnancy, I walked a lot and took prenatal yoga until the week I delivered.

I haven't felt great this pregnancy, but I'm almost out of the first trimester. I'm planning on doing prenatal yoga again.

With pregnancy #1, I had GD so I walked after meals for 10-20 minutes to keep my blood sugar low. With pregnancy #2, I was tired from taking care of an 18-month old so I didn't exercise as much. I also had vasa previa towards the end of my pregnancy so I was on bed rest then.

Yep! First pregnancy I worked out several times a week with prenatal exercise videos, took long walks, and did a yoga class once a week. Felt great and was down to my pre-pregnancy weight almost immediately. We're trying to our second and I am positive that I will not be able to do an eighth of that this time around.

I biked to work and worked on my feet all day until the very end. But at some point in the second trimester I totally gave up on the exercise program I was following. And now I'm paying for it postpartum!

I planned to. But morning sickness kicked my butt, and by the time I felt better I had a walking/talking toddler who makes it hard to do anything purposeful. Though, I suppose chasing after her counts as some exercise!