On Thursday, the first day of my third trimester, I mentioned that I managed to get back into the gym to do some non-painful exercise (click here to see what I did). After a week of doing very little, my thighs were killing me on Friday (which is a good thing as I felt like I had finally done something!) and spurred on my success I decided I'd do another exercise DVD review - to see how well it fares as far as pregnancy exercises go now I'm a little less mobile.

I reviewed Davina's Body Buff a few weeks ago when I was 25 weeks pregnant and blissfully ignorant of any pelvis problems lurking around the corner! Now that things are beginning to seize up a bit I was intrigued to see how I'd get on with a different one of Davina's DVDs (variety is the spice of life after

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Well, here we are. I'm 28 weeks pregnant so the third trimester starts today and if the last week is anything to go by, it's going to be pretty shit! However, I'm an optimist and hope that it's just been a blip ('FOOL!' I hear mothers from around the world cry!).

Despite only really wanting to go home to put my feet up (with my pelvis aligned. Naturally.), I have broken the rut and got myself back in the gym! Wearing something entirely awful that was too tight, I did 30 minutes of happy, unpainful (in the nether region) exercise, so I thought I'd share what I did here as I think it really is still do-able as far as pregnancy exercises go:

Aerobic exercise: 15 minutes on the cross trainer (you could equally walk but I find that painful), set to 'random' at level 9 (calorie wise I did 117 calories in

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Ever wondered what a pregnant woman is like after a night out when she went to bed at 1am? Well, I tell you. She's a pissed off grouch, with no sense of humour and her poor family gets it in the neck for a whole day. What a catch, eh? And that has been me all day thanks to a fun night out with a bunch of drunk people. (in case you can't tell from my tone, I did really enjoy the night!)

I decided in the hope to release some happy endorphins I'd do some exercise but after spending 3 days doing all the exercises on the Davina - Body Buff DVD for today's review post, I couldn't face doing any more Davina. Having leant out all my other exercise DVDs I reached for my only other DVD - Ministry of Sound's Pump It Up (image below for your enjoyment and to prove

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And finally - exercise. I don't know why I've been putting it off for so long, I guess I've been worrying that it needs to be all serious because we're talking about exercise during pregnancy but everything I have read about it has said it is really good for us and baby bean.  I'm not sure if Beanie was enjoying it but today I was on the treadmill (mainly walking but I did break into a bit of a jog), and I'm sure I felt the baby join in for a little while - I can't say it was all that comfortable but it amused me to think of it in there with a sweatband on working out.

When you google exercise during pregnancy it mostly points to sites that tell you to do fairly lame back exercises and to spend the rest of you day doing your pelvic floor. However, with

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