Hope to hear your views, I have an unmarried aunt who told me she prefers aerobics to jogging...because she thinks jogging will 'misplace' the uterus and makes a person harder to get pregnant or causing future miscarriages.

But from what I have found on the internet, it says only to avoid jogging during pregnancy to prevent any miscarriages.

So is this true? I'm quite alarmed by her saying because I have been a regular jogger for past few years. But I'm still single for now.

Everything you have ever wanted to know about special women running issues are here:

http://www.runnersworld.com/categor...185-0-0,00.html

Scroll down, you can find special articles about pregnancy....

Eva

Hi there!

Note that you started running around the same time as me, I started jogging and running straight after X'mas binges in 2002 (it was a spur of guilt over carbs).......so that makes my starting pt around jan 2003 too!

it has been 2 years plus and I have never looked back! in fact if I never get to work out (jog/swim), I'll feel funny and start to move around...

I found this on the website you suggested:

40 things every women should know

32. Running doesn't make your breasts sag or make your uterus collapse. Believe it or not, these old myths resurface from time to time. In fact, running tightens and firms all the muscles it uses, so it will help prevent sagging rather than cause it. There are no recorded cases of running resulting in a fallen uterus (or any other organ, for that matter). Where this idea got started is a mystery.

I'll inform my aunt abt it~ thks!

There would be far fewer of us!

Think about how active we had to be when our food wasn't in the supermarket?

A lot of these myths started in Victorian times when women were "too delicate" to do anything. I'm almost old enough to have played 6-women basketball, because if we had to run the whole court we'd be injured for child-bearing.

Think the major impact from exercise would be if you reduce your body fat % below where you can sustain a pregnancy, but for most of us on these boards, that's not too likely.

Really.

(And even more so, the jolting from aerobics isn't substantially different from that due to jogging, IMO.)