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Category: Pregnancy Exercise

Exercising regularly during pregnancy keeps you fit, increases your energy levels and can help you cope better with labour. It improves mood, posture, muscle tone, and has been shown to decrease rates of gestational diabetes, C-sections and high blood pressure (preeclampsia). Here is a list of exercises that are good for you during pregnancy: 1. Vajra asana: After every meal. Reduces flatulence, acidity and bloating. 2. Cat camel exercise: Helps in backache. It also helps baby to move from breech position to head down. 3. Squats: Or duck walk or moping the floor helps strengthening pelvic floor muscle. Reduces pubic bone pain, hip pain and helps in vaginal birth. It increases blood supply to developing baby. And helps in increasing baby’s weight. 4. Kegel’s exercise: pelvic floor muscles squeezing and releasing helps in urinary incontinence. Regular exercise of vaginal muscles helps in preventing uterine prolapse in future. 5. Butterfly pose: Stretching of pelvic and thigh muscle reduces aches and pains which most women complain while turning on the bed. Breathing exercise in this pose will increase lungs volume and oxygenation to the baby. 6. Walk, stationary cycling, swimming: All of these are regular cardio exercises. Improves circulation, lung capacity, stamina, blood supply, and muscular strength. Remember to warm up, stretch and cool down. Drink plenty of fluids to stay hydrated, and be careful to avoid overheating.

Exercises During Pregnancy

Exercising regularly during pregnancy keeps you fit, increases your energy levels and can help you cope better with labour. It improves mood, posture, muscle tone, and has been shown to decrease rates of gestational diabetes, C-sections and high blood pressure (preeclampsia). Here is a list of exercises that are good for you during pregnancy: Vajra…

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Bleeding in Early Pregnancy

Bleeding in Early Pregnancy

Bleeding during pregnancy is relatively common and doesn’t always mean there’s a problem – but it can be a dangerous sign. Reasons behind Bleeding during pregnancy: Implantation bleeding In early pregnancy, you might get some harmless spotting”. It often happens around the time your period would have been due. Cervical changes/ erosion Pregnancy can cause…

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Activity or Exercise During Pregnancy

Activity or Exercise during pregnancy will depend on how active you were before you got pregnant and the health issues you may have earlier. People may say that being pregnant is a time to rest. You may often hear them saying: Don’t bend Don’t sit on the floor Don’t climb stairs Don’t drive Don’t carry…

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