Here’s Whatcha Don’t Wanna Do
You read a lot when you’re pregnant about being careful of your balance, or lack thereof. Because you are a lot bigger and constantly changing in size, it’s hard to keep a good sense of balance and it’s important to avoid awkward situations in which you may become thrown off. You don’t wanna ignore that advice.
If you do ignore it, you may decide it’s a good idea to sign your 2 year old up for a free circus class for a few weeks. And you may decide that you can handle all the things they do in circus class even though you are pregnant and large, things like getting up and down off the floor a lot, helping your toddler do somersaults, etc. These things may include assisting your child while he’s hanging on a trapeze just a few feet above a very thick mat, like one of those that are about 1 1/2 feet thick. If you ignore the advice, you may think it’s ok to stand on this thick mat even though you are huge. Then, when you start to move around the trapeze you may discover the path is somewhat narrow. You may step a little too close to the edge of the mat, which may give way a little more than you’d expect due to your extreme largeness. And then you may use the other foot to step down off the mat so you don’t fall. But, because you don’t have a good sense of balance, you may not totally clear the mat with the other foot. And your little toe might get caught on the side of the mat as you go down…and it may try to stay there, on the mat, as your body descends. When you land you may think you only jammed it, but when you look down and see that your little toe is sticking out to the side at about a 45 degree angle you’ll realize it’s more than jammed. Then you may start to faint during your child’s circus class.
If you ignore this advice, you may then have to spend the rest of the day in the ER after making your husband come home from work. You may have x-rays and find out you broke your toe, like totally broke it. You’ll be instructed to stay off of it for 3 days, which will be virtually impossible since you have a 2 year old. Then you’ll have to heal for about 4 weeks, making several follow up appointments with a specialist, taping your toe to the one next to it in hopes of straightening it back out, and wearing “only hard soled shoes” for much of your summer, not that you can see how you are to fit your foot in any type of “hard soled shoe.” And you’ll have to do all of this while being in your third trimester and wrangling a toddler, who, believe me, does not give a crap that your toe has a “big toe boo boo - whoa!”
I’m just saying, if you ignore this advice, it could happen to you. When pregnant, don’t stand on squishy mats, mats meant to create a sense of safety, because, for pregnant ladies, apparently mats break toes, not falls.
Oh no. I am glad the rest of you are ok! I wrote a post one time about how important even that little toe is. I can’t imagine what kind of shoes you could wear. Can you wear Crocs? They are a little hard but have holes for airy-ness in the hot summer? … wish you well!
Steph
Oh crap. That SUCKS! I am very glad that it’s just your toe, and not anything more serious! But Dude. That SUCKS. Yay for YOUR summer, eh?
Hang in there… Maybe he’ll start to like quiet activities? Get a sprinkler and lots of sidewalk chalk, cuz you aren’t going far this summer.
Oh NOES! Argh! What’s a pregnant girl to do? Can you at least parlay this into a get-out-of-housework-free card for a week or two? Do Teva sandals count as “hard-souled”?
Well, at least you don’t have to look at it… you know, the belly being in the way most of the time!
OH OUCH! That stinks. Hope it’s better soon!
That sucks so bad. So bad. I hear that broken toes are awful. I hope to avoid this myself if at all possible. Thank you for sharing. I hope you feel better soon and that even though Sam is two he’ll get that you need a break sometimes.
I am one of those people that have pretty much broken EVERY toe hence having the most ugliest, crooked, bumpy and bent toes known to man. They were a #itch to deal with being healthy and having agility that I can’t imagine what you are going through now with a belly and a 2 year old.
I wish you all the best my friend!! And … as tough as it may be (okay next to impossible), I would play the poor me card to ensure that hubby were to take an extra day or two off to allow you to kick back and put those swollen knubbies up. The good news though: at least you can try to pass off the swollen feet as broken toes rather than the pregnant elephantitis!
YIKES! That has to hurt!
Poor you! I’m sorry to hear this.
I hope that you can muddle through the next few days without much pain!
I am so sorry! What a story! You are so good at relaying good advise while telling a detailed story at the same time. Get well soon!
When I was pregnant with #2 I took my toddler to one of those indoor playlands. When it was time to go she ran away into the gerbil tubes and I couldn’t get her to come down. I finally went in after her and got stuck. Took a bit of maneuvering to get out. . .
Ouch! That had to hurt!
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I think your first mistake was “toddler circus”. Yikes. So sorry about the accident. But you’ll always have a good story to tell this baby.
Oh Beth, that sucks. I hope your toe is doing better.
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