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WOMEN’S TRAINING

TRAINING WOMEN'S TRAINING

» Fertility and exercise

LAUREN DRINKWATER

Lauren is a certified advanced personal trainer and group exercise instructor, specialising in ante- and post-natal fitness. mumfitwonder.com

For anyone reading this who is struggling to fall pregnant, please know that you’re not alone and that talking to others and hearing their stories will help, I promise. It’s my hope that sharing my own fertility story will offer some comfort, too.

And for anyone else, if you’re training for triathlon falling pregnant might actually be the last thing on your mind and you might be reading this out of a sense of vague intrigue. It might be that you’re training for something in order to get fitter beforeto want a baby but doesn’t want to give up competing. Whether or not you relate to my story, sharing it with you might just help to raise awareness of the condition I suffered from.

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