I hope it's a fake baby they're putting in such a precarious position. The ultrasounds as cool new hobby against doctor's advice is somewhat debatable, but a 7 months pregnant woman ICE SKATING? Are they INSANE? One
professional ice skater (Ekaterina Gordeeva, I think) once talked about how she wouldn't even step foot on the ice past 4 months to glide around like an ametuer because prenancy knocks your whole sense of balance out of whack, and plus, it's not usually a good thing to go splat anywhere while pregnant - you tend to be
more careful, if you have the sense God gave a box of hair. Ekaterina's a professional, she knows what she's doing on the ice, how to skate. Is Katie as good and assured on the ice as a two-time Olympic Champion and 4-time World Champion? Maybe she figures she doesn't have to be, because "Tom knows the history of ice skating" and we don't
I've joked about this pregnancy being a pillow or an alien, but I did seriously think she was pregnant until yesterday (pregnant by in vitro or another guy, but pregnant nonetheless). Now I'm just appalled and baffled and would really rather believe it's all a fake-out and they've got a test tube baby growing to present in a couple months.
My best friend in high school was born 2 months premature because her mother slipped on an icy pavement while wearing sensible shoes and trying to be careful, because she'd lived in that clime for years and was accustomed to the ice and the danger it presented. My friend was born with a lot of problems, stemming both from the trauma of the fall on her, and the prematurity, which followed her her whole life. Luckily though her parents were Prysbeterian and not Scientologists, so she was able to be treated with actual medicine in actual hospitals by actual doctors, and wasn't told to exercise and take a vitamin.