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I'm worried about this! I'm curious to other ladies replies.

I feel like I hardly have time for working out now and I'm not even pregnant yet!

Would love to hear other's replies.

There is a gym right next to my office that I could go to during my lunch break, but I don't know how that is going to work with pumping/eating/changing/working out/cleaning up/changing again/etc. I feel like my workout would be 10 minutes long. And also the gym membership is really, really expensive ($100+).

My other idea is to stock up on a bunch of different kinds of workout DVDs, and do them after LO goes to bed every night...

Neither of them sound ideal.

@highwire: Whoa, $100 a month?? I try to go to yoga class after LO goes to sleep but sometimes that means coming home at 11pm.

I dont work out. I didnt work out before having a baby either. I walk a lot and thats about it.

I haven't made much in the way of working out. I can't run because of injuries (walking is hard too). I tried going at 5 am and my kid cried with daddy the whole time. So dad didn't get any sleep and he had to work too. I'm still trying to figure it out. If I could go at 9 pm all would be good but I can't.

I'm a sahm and I had a hard time making time or finding the motivation to go to the gym.
I ended up buying some DVD programs and working out at home.

I don't work out. I try to grab a long walk with LO when I can, but now that it's getting cold that won't be happening.

@winniebee: I know you have an early riser in your house...me too. Since the time changed and the sun rises earlier, we have been taking morning walks. I don't know if that is feasible in Boston (I'm in CA), but that is how I am fitting some exercise in. Other things I try, but its hard to motivate, is to pick one afternoon on the weekend at the gym, usually Sunday when baby naps and Daddy just wants to watch football and there is a gym class at 8:00pm Tues/Thurs and I think about going to one of them (haven't actually been in a few weeks).
Its tough. I am hoping when I wean his before bed nursing, I can be more consistent about going to the gym one or two nights a week while Dad puts him to bed.

I'm going to try and start working out once LO goes to sleep at 7 p.m. I have been sick the past 3 weeks so I hope to get back to working out now that I'm finally feeling better. We have an elliptical in our workout room. I also run on the weekends with LO in the BOB.

I was able to work out after DD turned 2 by going to the gym in the evening at least 3x a week or running in my neighborhood while DH had baby duty. However, after getting into great shape, I got pregnant :-T . DS is 1+ year now and I have been back to the gym once. Now that the weather has cooled down, I might get a bike trailer and bike the kids around,.

I've already quit working out half-way through my pregnancy, so I can't imagine it's going to get better once the baby is here...

BUT, my coworker goes to the gym around 8:00 at night after baby is in bed, so if your gym is close to your house, maybe that's a possibility?

Nope. No time and I don't care to.

This thread is so disheartening I'm hoping to get to the gym about 3-4 days a week. I might have to switch to going in the morning, though. I think it's definitely something that has to be prioritized and scheduled, just like a work thing

To make some of you moms-to-be feel a little better, I do work out! I have a 3 month old and this is my routine. I think it helps because I have a really easy-going baby who sleeps through the night since he was 8 weeks old so he easily conformed to my schedule. If he didn't sleep well, that would mean I didn't and finding a chance to work out would be sooo much harder. I get up before work to run or do an exercise video at home 2-3 morning per week. I get up early on Saturday and meet my running group and go run after nursing little one while DH stays in bed. Baby usually goes back to sleep after nursing so its easy on DH as well. My weekday routine:

Set alarm 545 am.
Nurse baby.
Go on a run (3-4 miles) or 40 m video
Hop in shower and get myself ready
Get baby dressed (or sometimes DH does this)
Nurse baby once more before DH takes him to daycare.
Usually have to be at work at 9 am, but it varies...sometimes earlier

I've always been one to exercise also so that makes it easier as well. I like doing it before work so I can spend my evenings with the baby and DH. If I started my work days earlier, not so sure I'd be able to do it. Also, I have like a 10 minute commute and DH is around to help out as he usually doesn't start work until later as well. I can see how a lot of you just can't fit it in your schedules!

@Amelieisme: Awesome!!! I too have a super early work schedule (I start at 7:30am) so this exact plan probably wouldn't work for me, but I'm hoping since DH doesn't have to be at work til 9:30am he can do daycare dropoff and leave me some time in the morning to go to the gym before work (like I do now). I already get up at 5am to workout before work so hopefully adding a nursing session won't be too bad. Now I just have to get DH to agree to this master plan

Honestly, since his bedtime has gotten earlier (7pm), I haven't figured out how to fit it in regularly yet. I've been doing Sat and Sun morning runs, just to do something, but it is really difficult to find time during the week. I literally get home from work, start dinner, feed my LO while I'm cooking. Then eat dinner, shower with my LO, and then get him ready for bed/into bed. Then its dishes/laundry/cleaning time and then I get into bed exhausted at 9:3pm. I wish my husband would help more, but when the weather is mild like it is now, he works longer days and it's also hunting season, which means he's never home on the weekends. I'm trying to figure out a schedule so that after the first of the year, I can really buckle down.

I have to leave the house at 6 am to get LO to daycare by 6:30 am. So, I wake up normally at 5 am. For moms who workout in morning, what time do you drop off LO at daycare? I'd like to workout in morning but don't see how I'd have time.

Oh and the working out during lunch would be great. BUT that doesn't work because that's one of the times I pump. Being a working mom and having it all is ROUGH!