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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000004.txt from 2004/12

From: Barbara Trautwein <mzeztee@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] playing during pregnancy
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 08:13:26 -0500

Actually, my playing got better the farther along into the pregnancy I
got! Sound was richer, tongue lighter and more facile, and fingers
were flying. Then about a week before the baby came, everything changed
for the worse! I sounded like I was wheezing into the oboe, my tongue
felt like a huge wad of cotton, and my fingers clutched the oboe. I
cried. . . .

I saw the obgyn two days later and was told that the baby had dropped. .
. I would deliver very soon.

SOOOO what had happened is that I had carried the baby very high and HE
was providing me with the best breath support I had ever known! When
the baby dropped, so did that support. Did I ever learn a lesson
about the importance of breathing right!!!

2 cents.,
b

eightsmiths wrote:

>This may be a silly question, but are there any health reasons a pregnant
>woman should not play the oboe during any time of her pregnancy?
>
>Ruth
>and yes, I am expecting a new baby in May.
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