Wreckless....

We got season passes for the local family Theme park. Every single ride has, not advised if you're pregnant etc... as they do at Theme parks.

Well today, my husband, has been rotating, between taking Oatie on his own, then Oatie with his Siblings... and then the older two on their own. So today he took my elder two for an afternoon out... etc...

My husband just messaged me a photo of my kids in the line for the log flume... it's not one for the faint hearted... you have to hang on and there are not foot holds or anything to brace your feet on... Anyway I happened to notice this, in the corner of the photo....

Look how pregnant this lady is....

So, I'm txting him back, like there is no way that she'd go on that ride, it's not like the perimeter train or it's a small world at Disney....

but she did go on the ride...

things like this make me annoyed. There is a mother, who is carrying an unborn child, pretty heavily pregnant and taking an unnecessary risk! And as sods law has it, they'll have the non handicapped child even after going on a ride that is like being in a minor car collision... and there are people like us who wouldn't even consider doing that to an unborn child... who have the kid with the brain damage. See if you're in a car collision, then that is part of "being alive" / bad luck taking a risk by going in a car but you don't get hit every day... going in a car is a calculated risk.... going in a log flume is pure selfishness on that pregnant mother's part...

I'm not wishing any bad to this woman at all.. or dissing our Oatie. Oatie has brought so much pleasure in to our lives, as you all know he spends most of his day smiling and is such a character with an awesome sense of humour and puts most able bodied people to shame with his determination etc, although I do admit his physical limitations have altered the course of our family's path totally. My parents camped since I was 2, and have been in the Guiding and Scouting movement my entire life, and by the age of 16, I spend more than one year of my life under canvas camping with the Guides) a lot of my friends go camping and hiking most weekends with their kids, etc) and we're yet to be able to do that, I'm working, looking into solutions to make this possible for our family, not for each weekend, but so Oatie can also experience the pleasure of the outdoors too. I also hate it when "so-called friends" say, especially in the Summer, what you haven't been to this blah blah falls, or you haven't gone on this trek... I'm like no we haven't, Oatie can't WALK, or climb up rock or steps....

Altering your family's path, isn't necessarily bad, my husband and i have found that our talents/past sporting interests or physique (met in a gym), has all be so useful in our new path, like me being a lifeguard & Swim Instructor as a teen when I had a huge water phobia from almost drowning 4 times as a kid until I was 10... so now both skills really help Oatie with his swimming development. My husbands pretty serious back injury from Rugby through his 7 year recovery, taught him balance and control and even though I'm a better single skier than him (he may not agree) but he's a way better aide for Oatie on the Bi-ski, his turns and stance are perfect for the Bi-ski. I wanted to learn to ice skate since I was 5 and when we moved I did, I even tripped over my picks which had my knees bruised for 18 months... but I persisted and luckily I'm a good enough aide to skate with my Oatie. I LOVE skating with him, absolutely LOVE it!

So my next challenge is to get us outdoors more as a family... I think I might have found a solution, It's an "off road wheelchair" like the 3 wheel strollers but more robust...but it won't be until next Summer it comes into effect and we'll start small by camping in our yard... and having so many wonderful Scouting friends, I can ask them who have been on the trails etc (not the so-called friends), which ones terrain is suitable to start to experiment with being out doors more. With the help of ABR, I feel this is possible, where as before ABR any bumpy terrain even in a car park would have Oatie screaming in pain.

Nor am I saying that we should wrap everyone in cotton wool either, you know that my elder two figure skate and we're an avid skiing family.... all have risks... but in my opinion, going on a log flume is just plain STuPID when you're that pregnant.

I just think that this heavily pregnant lady is insane... this is one that could be avoided, it's not Disneyland with millions of strangers... it's a family park.. and you usually bump into at least 5 families that you know there... and like today my eldest had to ride the roller coaster sat next to a stranger as my husband was sat with my daughter, it's like when you go skiing and other people share the chair lifts with strangers or help take a ski-school kid on the chair with them. Ok, I won't see the outcome, but where we lived in England we used to go to an animal farm and had season passes for that, and I saw really pregnant women jumping into a shallow BALL PIT, others riding down the astroglide slide with a toddler on their lap and one Running for ice cream and falling flat on her tummy just because she was wearing flipflops.... and all 3 had non-brain damaged children. It's not like they were being sensible and then had an accidental fall, all are just plain stupidity... and just slaps you in the face how unfair life can be.

Rant over and out and yes, I'm hormonal as I'm pregnant... 33 weeks on Tuesday:), (I haven't been that public with it as I am excited but have all the past emotion of Oatie's birth with it), we went to the theme park with one of my friends who's daughter is my eldest age and she rode the ride in my place a month ago and said she had not had that much fun in ages having a tiny hand in hers on rides... And Last weekend I did go with my family, but I didn't ride any of the rides, I enjoyed watching my family riding the rides, and I enjoyed the precious gift of my unborn snuggled up safely, who kicked each time he/she heard his/her siblings approaching after coming off a ride.