Pregnant? Try exercising!!

Worried about gaining weight throughout your pregnancy? try any sort of exercise! Not only is it beneficial to your health but ALSO your babies health. A new recent study has shown that exercise may boost the baby's brain... Exercising can ease back pain, help you sleep better, boost your mood and energy levels, and of course Prevent excessive weight gain!

 

Although I can not speak from personal experience, I know many people who have had birth in which they have exercised and they have told me it seemed that their birth's were much smoother and that is because when you exercise your strengthening your muscles which makes it easier for you to control when giving birth.

 

There are a multitude of exercises you can do while pregnant, brisk walk on the treadmill (or outside) swimming, dance, or even yoga. Remember though: Before doing any sort of exercise it is always great to consult a doctor! :)

According to the NYTime article:
" The women in the exercise group were asked to work out for at least 20 minutes, three times a week, at a moderate intensity, equivalent to about a six or so on a scale of exertion from one to 10. Most of the women walked or jogged.
Every month, for the remainder of each woman’s pregnancy, she would visit the university’s exercise lab, so researchers could monitor her fitness. All of the volunteers, including those in the nonexercise group, also maintained daily activity logs.
After about six months and following the dictates of nature, the women gave birth. All, thankfully, had healthy boys or girls — which the scientists gently requested that the mothers almost immediately bring in for testing.

Within 12 days of birth, in fact, each of the newborns accompanied his or her mother to the lab. There, each baby was fitted with an adorable little cap containing electrodes that monitor electrical activity in the brain, settled in his or her mother’s lap, and soothed to sleep. Researchers then started a sound loop featuring a variety of low, soft sounds that recurred frequently, interspersed occasionally with more jarring, unfamiliar noises, while the baby’s brain activity was recorded. In this case, the relevant brainwave activity soared in response to the novel sounds among the children born to mothers who had remained sedentary during pregnancy. But it was noticeably blunted in the babies whose mothers had exercised. In essence, “their brains were more mature,”