Yoga class!

I went to my first yoga class today at Yoga Shala. It starts at 10:30, which is a fabulous time. It means I can sleep in and still make it to the class. It ends at noon, so there's enough time left in the day to get stuff done afterwards (if I were tempted to actually do things).

One of the things that the lady who taught the class talked about was community. It was really neat to see all the other pregnant ladies there. There were probably 20 women in various stages of pregnancy. I was a little worried walking in that I was going to be the only person who wasn't in my third trimester... maybe most pregnant ladies go to regular yoga classes until they get really big? But that wasn't true. At the start of the class, we all introduced ourselves and said how pregnant we were and then anything else we wanted to say. The woman who was the least pregnant was 13 weeks and the woman who was the most pregnant was 39.5 weeks. I was right across from her. She looked really tired. I'm hoping to make a few pregnant-lady friends through the class.

It was a good class. There's a lot of stretching of the legs and hips, which is good because mine are always really tight. We talked about pushing through and holding a difficult position, but staying relaxed. It's like labor.

I got an introductory package, so I get to go to unlimited classes for the next two weeks. Unfortunately, I'm going to be at home for Thanksgiving, so I'll miss the next Saturday class. I'm also probably going to miss the Wednesday evening class because we're headed down to Corvallis that night. It's the only Wednesday class I can make until the end of the term because I teach. If Mike works late, I'm going to go to the yoga class and then we'll drive down afterwards.

I didn't feel any tiny squee motion during the yoga class, but got some good bumps earlier this evening. Sometimes, it feels like baby is jumping up and down on my cervix. Or at least it feels like I imagine it might feel to have something jumping up and down on my cervix. I'm not sure how it feels to have ones cervix bumped from the inside. Pregnancy is really weird.