Most doctors will tell you that swimming is very good exercise for anyone, especially pregnant women. The myth that swimming can be detrimental for expectant moms probably stems from the irrational fear of contracting some sort of infection from the pool water or having your waters break while in full breaststroke and not noticing the loss of fluids.

Jan and I went to the gym yesterday for a relaxing swim and an intensive weight lifting session (respectively). When Jan was finished with her paddle around, she found me toning my already sumptuous gluteus maximus.

Me: How was your swim?
Jan: OK, I guess. A little strange…
Me: Why? What happened?
Jan: I had this weird feeling while I was swimming…
Me: …
Jan: It was this sort of tightening and then I felt like I had all this extra room in there.
Me: Maybe your waters broke. Did you put your goggles on and check the water behind you to see if it was all murky and viscous?
Jan: …

We later determined that Jan’s waters are, in fact, still intact and what probably happened was that Little Girl’s head had “engaged” (or dropped). Looks like everything is moving in the right direction. (Ha! That’s pregnancy humor)