The 9 Month Injury

Written by a rotating roster of the currently injured and recently delivered, The 9 Month Injury is the place for stories from the front lines of derby pregnancy and new motherhood! Preggers? New Mom? Breastfeeding? Tell us about it! [email protected]

The 9 Month Injury: Mind Games And Other Blockers - Part Two

by NZBuzz November 15, 2011 - 11:56pm

Mind Games And Other Blockers Part One

Blocker 2

Well to put it simply this blocker is Chronic Atrophy of the Vastus Medialis Obliquus Muscle.

Google it if you want to.

Say it fast five times in a row if you can.


The 9 Month Injury: Mind Games And Other Blockers - Part One.

by NZBuzz September 28, 2011 - 8:00am

Buzzy Bee-arch, Otautahi Rollers

So now that I have stepped completely out of my comfort zone and taken up the challenge of learning to play roller derby, I have discovered that it is a whole lot harder for me than I thought it would be. I was confident, shall we say, slightly cocky, to begin with. Having done so much roller skating growing up I thought I would take to it pretty quickly but there were a few things I didn't see coming, a few 'blockers' that I will have to get past...


The 9 Month Injury: Emotional Baggage

by DerbyLife August 15, 2011 - 8:12am

By: D-Bomb, Captain, Oly Rollers

I have always wanted children. For years I’ve watched friends and family have babies and I was always a little bit jealous because I wanted a child of my own. I had tried to get pregnant, but it just never happened for me, which is why it’s ironic that when I actually did get pregnant, I was anything but ecstatic. I went through waves of emotion. Mad, sad and-of course- finally, happy. The thing that was keeping me from being immediately happy was derby.


Derby: Check. Degree: Check. Baby: TWINS! Now What?

by ivy.b.leaguer August 7, 2011 - 11:21pm

Roller derby found me in January of 2007. I was listening to the local news at noon when I heard a “coming up next” tagline for a piece on the Star City Roller Girls of Roanoke, Virginia. My interest went on high alert and I couldn’t wait for the commercial break to end so I could contact these women and somehow get involved.


Traveling Tips for the Derby Mom & Family

by MsDfiant July 27, 2011 - 4:37pm

Tip #1: Reconsider the Decision


Finding Derby Post-Partum

by Sweet N. Lowdown July 15, 2011 - 1:25am

Over the course of one year I’d moved from Los Angeles to Flagstaff to Chicago to Miami, and finally to Tucson, AZ. In Chicago, I met Rich, a talented photojournalist, and got thoroughly knocked up. In Miami, he proposed. In Tucson, we had our son, Levi. Besides being an amazing photographer, Rich was also an avid skateboarder and went riding pools with his friends at least two or three times a week.


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