I am sorry I am quite that heated, but this is my and my baby s life I am talking about, and both our health but also our happiness are important. I do think about the babys future, and it s looking pretty bleak if mama s getting depressed because she is forced to live in a country that she hates passionately.
However, i do thank you for your suggestion that young people forget to remember that there is other good things that can happen even when what they want badly right here right now is not possible, I will give this a thought and try to think of other solutions but to keep on diving. Okay, I gotta go to work now. Yes and dive, cuz I need money to pay the gynelogist, who by the way sees no problem with me diving. Please everyone, remember, I do spend most of the time in the pool and do maybe one 6 to 12 meter dive in a day, sometimes two, but that s it. Also whenever possible, I let other people carry tanks etc for me saying I have back problems. And last but not least please think about the following quote of a pregnancy website> there is not much that can really disturb a healthy pregnancy. Just think of all the hard working women, like my grandmother for instance after world war 2. she worked in the fields, harvesting etc and bore completely healthy children, like soooo many others did before her. And please, please dont tell me anymore I should not dive, I know that! Instead give me solutions to my situations or let it be!
A few points:
Most OB/GYN's don't know a damn thing about diving...hell, most doctors in general aren't very well informed (just ask the urgent care doc who diagnosed my Type 2 DCS as a "shoulder strain" LOL).
That seems silly...you dive because you need money to pay the OB/GYN. It's responsible to go to an OB/GYN, but ridiculously irresponsible to dive while knowingly pregnant. It's like smoking while pregnant, knowing that your baby has a far greater chance of being born premature and with a low birthweight, but justifying it by telling yourself, "well, at least I make sure I get exercise once a week!"
It's not the carrying of the cylinders that's gonna get you into trouble, it's the whole "gas under pressure" thing that's going to harm your baby. And you know as well as I do, that the greatest pressure differential is in the first 33 feet of water...one dive a day is a LOT to put your baby through. That's one dive a day for how long....a week, a month, 5 months? That's way more diving than the average vacation diver who accidently becomes pregnant right before vacation and doesn't realize it until after she returns.
You read on a pregnancy website that "not much will disturb a healthy pregnancy". That's assuming that you're not being irresponsible...there's a ton you can do to "disturb a healthy pregnancy", like smoking crack, drinking alcohol, exposing oneself to toxins, smoking cigarettes, and potentially, scuba diving.
There are only two good solutions to your situation...
1. Give up diving for the duration of your pregnancy
2. Abort the pregnancy
Anything else is your attempt to justify your irresponsible and selfish decison.
(Mods, I'm sorry if this was harsh, but I as a medical professional, I can't sit by and say nothing)
Some people should not be allowed to breed......IJS.........
