Originally Posted by urbanknight

You don't need to cut cycling completely. She's not ovulating constantly, and you replenish your swim team to full capacity in 72 hours. So (and this was the advice from my wife's OB when we were trying) you need to stay off the bike 3-4 days before she is expected to ovulate.



Same story here. After months of consulting with doctors, marking dates on calendars, and even considering medical intervention, we just kind of took a break. It was during this break when my wife took a week off work to get her wisdom teeth removed. Still somewhat hopped up on pain pills and feeling good from the attention I was giving her (I was also on a break from work), we did it and that did it! My wife is an eager professional, so she is in high stress as it is, and stressing out over trying to get pregnant didn't help at all.



Sounds believable to me. 3 weeks leading up to the birth and 6 weeks after, one or both of them were in the hospital. The constant visits and other new parent duties kept me off the bike for a while, and I was depressed and moody. I also continued to gain weight and am still trying to work it off a year later.



Don't get too excited. You will be so busy changing diapers and giving the little one attention, and so tired from waking up every 3 hours from his cries (that's how often newborns feed), and so frazzled from the other times he screams and you can't figure out why, you might not be able to ride that new Roubaix for a while. I cracked my frame shortly before having my son and the replacement bike had maybe 200 miles on it when he turned 3 months old. So I recommend waiting a year before buying the Roubaix so you don't sit there looking at a "like new" 1 year-old bike.