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Exercise During Pregnancy

The benefits of exercise during pregnancy are numerous. It will not only help you to control your weight gain throughout your pregnancy and afterwards, but it will also help to minimize stretch marks.

More importantly, exercise during pregnancy will help to ensure that you and your baby are healthy. Being as healthy as possible throughout your pregnancy will lower your chances of having a difficult pregnancy.

Benefits of exercise during pregnancy

Maintain a steady and healthy weight gain.
Lower the chance of needing a cesarean
Improve sleep quality
Accelerate postpartum weight loss
Increase energy levels
Increase self-esteem, lowering depression and anxiety
Help to reduce pregnancy discomforts
Shorten recovery time after birth

If you were exercising regularly before your pregnancy, you may only need to adjust your exercise schedule slightly. If you have not been exercising, it is important to begin any exercise routine very slowly, easing yourself into it.

Tips for exercise during pregnancy

Drink plenty of fluids before exercising
Be sure to stretch, but do not overstretch
Aim to exercise 3 or more times a week
Do not lift heavy weights
Never exercise to the point of exhaustion or breathlessness
During your 2nd and 3rd trimesters, avoid any exercise that requires you to lie on your back, as this reduces blood flow to your baby

Avoid these exercises during pregnancy

Skiing
Cycling
Rollerblading
Skateboarding
Horseback Riding
Surfing
You get the idea…

Post Pregnancy Exercises
Yoga During Pregnancy

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