Pregnant question RE diving
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H2Andy
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There was a study done a couple of years ago, I think it was in Dive Training and basicly it too said no, never, just dont do it. The fetus has a PFO which elliminates any chance of off gasing nitrogen through the lungs. Basicly your bending the baby with every dive. Not a good way to start life.
COngrats and good luck!
COngrats and good luck!
page.crow
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Congrats you dog! <grinning> Babies have a way of changing lives...
Pregnancy is a contraindication to diving, no doubt.
Imagine the pressure on the inner ear when you go down in the pool. The same pressure is being exerted through the vaginal barrel, into the cervix of the uterus, and upon the beginnings of an amniotic sac, the "bag of waters" of the baby. Brand new pregnancy? Then the fetus is just barely implanted.
Any dive instructor who knows your woman is pregnant is not going to let her dive.
Congrats on your new career!
page crow DC
Pregnancy is a contraindication to diving, no doubt.
Imagine the pressure on the inner ear when you go down in the pool. The same pressure is being exerted through the vaginal barrel, into the cervix of the uterus, and upon the beginnings of an amniotic sac, the "bag of waters" of the baby. Brand new pregnancy? Then the fetus is just barely implanted.
Any dive instructor who knows your woman is pregnant is not going to let her dive.
Congrats on your new career!
page crow DC
There is very little good information about the risk to the pregnancy of maternal diving. As you can imagine, it would be difficult to do such studies in humans, and the animal data are apparently inconsistent.
Most of the human information is anecdotal, but there is some indication that there may be an increased risk of cardiac and pulmonary abnormalities in fetuses whose mothers dove. There is, as far as I could find, no useful information about whether this is dependent on the depth of the dives or the time in pregnancy when the diving was done.
The UK Sport Diving Medical Committee makes the very reasonable observation that, since diving is purely elective for the vast majority of women, and since there is some weak evidence to suggest an increased risk of fetal malformations, that pregnant women simply avoid diving.
There is no issue of increased pressure across the amniotic fluid. There are no air spaces within the fetus, and the pressure simply equalizes across all fluid-filled spaces. The issues are thought to have to do with bubbling in the fetal circulation, which occurs just as it does in the maternal.
Most of the human information is anecdotal, but there is some indication that there may be an increased risk of cardiac and pulmonary abnormalities in fetuses whose mothers dove. There is, as far as I could find, no useful information about whether this is dependent on the depth of the dives or the time in pregnancy when the diving was done.
The UK Sport Diving Medical Committee makes the very reasonable observation that, since diving is purely elective for the vast majority of women, and since there is some weak evidence to suggest an increased risk of fetal malformations, that pregnant women simply avoid diving.
There is no issue of increased pressure across the amniotic fluid. There are no air spaces within the fetus, and the pressure simply equalizes across all fluid-filled spaces. The issues are thought to have to do with bubbling in the fetal circulation, which occurs just as it does in the maternal.
H2Andy
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hey, good call
good of you to not dive as well while she can't
good of you to not dive as well while she can't
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Rob_lee_1:We have decided not to dive. Not worth the risk.... regardless of if its a billion to 1!
Im sure Diving can wait
Congratulations and smart move! Besides....we'll still be here in 9 months
truck1
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Rob_lee_1:lol... she found that quite funny
I think the best bet is to stop before starting
God Choice.Let me translate what I actually meant about baths.I was born in NYC where a bath is actually filling a tub with water and relaxing while sitting down.A shower is standing under running water.I keep forgetting in the south and elsewhere that a bath and shower mean the same thing.(this is what I get for posting when I am tired.)What I actually meant was (and I am sure most of you figured this out) showers are ok.The bath the part of sitting down in water is not due to certain parts of her body having to adjust back to normal.When my son was born my wife went thru the same thing.My wife was told in no uncertain terms due to the higher chance of infection, she could not swim or take a bath (showers still ok) :lol: until she was cleared by a doctor.This is usually a couple of days to a couple of weeks.This varies from person to person.
Again Congratulations and I will take a nap from now on before posting.
btw, if you do contact DAN or a doctor who is knowledgable about diving while pregnant,or diving in general,please pm me with what they said.I know next to nothing about it and am now genuinely curios.
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