Wednesday 30th August Look, entering a dance competition 9 months after giving birth is not the best idea I've ever had.  Funnily enough, babies don't really like being ignored, left to play on their own on the floor in a dance studio.  They also don't care for being pushed through the shops on a mission to Bras and Things for a costume, and certainly don't have the patience to wait while you try on 5 different things. If you can push through the mummy guilt long enough to leave the baby with someone else, you get to the studio and realise that it's hard to be creative on 4 hours o ..read more

My first dance class after having my baby was at 7 weeks post-partum.  It was a master class with the amazing Yanis Marshall from France, in a dance style I don't do.  Back in November when I was pregnant I saw Yanis was coming and, idolising him as I do, I decided to buy a ticket to his workshop, fully aware that I could feel totally incapable of it at the time, but thinking it is better to have the choice than to have massive F.O.M.O.  Lovely husband insisted he could handle a day on his own with bubba, and the clinching factor was that my work Christmas party (in January) fel ..read more

38 weeks, enjoying the calm before the storm! Hello!  I'm still here, and still pregnant!  But sadly not pole dancing at all any more.  I think you will forgive me for this when I tell you I am 39 weeks this week, which means 1 week away from D. Day!  Apparently in Australia it is most common for babies to arrive between 38-41 weeks, so any day now (please baby!) My last term of teaching at BPS and The Peach was term 5, from 29th August- 23rd October, or from 28 weeks- 35 weeks pregnant, and it was absolutely fantastic!  I cut down from the previous terms 14 ..read more

Weeks 12-16-18-20 As happens a lot in life, it never rains but it pours, and finding out the amazing news of me being pregnant coincided with some other big news: my husband being made redundant.  This was happy news for him, in a kind of bitter-sweet way, but, as you can imagine, financial security is pretty high up there on the "important stuff to consider when having a baby" list, so this news was also a little scary!  Months before we had said that if the redundancy came through we would take a lovely big holiday together, yet it was still ..read more

Heaps of people who read my first blog post about my first trimester of poling pregnant wrote to me (thank you!) and said there was a massive lack of information out there on the subject and subsequently they had felt scared to continue poling throughout their own pregnancy.  This is such a shame and is also my whole motivation for writing this blog!  Please continue to share your experiences with me so we can all contribute to getting as much info out there as possible and hopefully more women will be able to safely and confidently continue their favourite sport during their preg ..read more

Pole dancing and pregnancy...two terms you don't often hear in the same sentence.  But it's the first thing I googled when I found out the good news that I was, indeed, with child.  And what did I find? Not a lot!  I LOVED this Cleo the Hurricane blog post, which is a fantastic read about her own pregnancy journey, and also deals with people's attitudes to pole and pregnancy.   Here is an informative article which I really enjoyed written by KT Coates, a pole instructor from the UK. Some interesting opinions and experiences can be found on  ..read more