Pregnancy Exercises: Best Way to Relax

Exercises during pregnancy helps the pregnant women to get relief from the pregnancy discomforts like back pain, stresses and fatigue. Even if the pregnant woman is not involved in any of the physical chore she may get tired. This can better be treated by doing exercise instead of taking any other medication.

While following exercise program, you need to adopt certain measures like wearing lose fitting cloth, avoiding any hard exercise during pregnancy, avoid lying straight at your back, drink lots of water, and don’t get exhausted which means overheated. Before allocating any of the pregnancy exercises program first do consult your health care provider. Back pain is one of the main discomforts of pregnancy and you can’t relax if you are one of the sufferers. The best way is to exercise. Some of the safe exercises during pregnancy are: indoor cycling, low impact aerobics, swimming, brisk walking and jogging. These exercises are safe as they are mild or moderate. Also, there is no danger of any injury while performing these exercises.

If you are pregnant then probably you are carrying a weight bag of 15 to 20 pounds or even more. It is really difficult enough to sleep at night as sleeping at the back is not an easy job. Exercise is best to get a sound sleep. You need to keep checking your BMI as well if you are already underweight then exercise activity may also consume some part of your daily intake of calories.

Abdominal exercises during pregnancy are helpful for strengthening abs muscles. Swimming is considered to be the best exercise as it involves all of the abs muscles. Sit ups and crunches are also useful enough to be done. Not only this, there are certain exercises which may be prescribed by your midwife along with each step precaution. Do consult your midwife before adopting any exercise.  Abdominal exercise after pregnancy helps in reducing the tummy which projects a bad feel.

Is drinking alcohol during pregnancy safe? No, it is not as it causes health risks like physical and mental disorders. No matter how healthy you are eating and how regularly you are following an exercise plan. Alcohol during pregnancy brought in the risk of miscarriage. Fetal alcohol spectrum is the name given to the disorders related with consumption of alcohol. Baby most probably suffer from movement and coordination problems throughout his life. Also, baby will face learning difficulties and it may range from mild to chronic. It may cause permanent damage to the developing cells of the baby. The face, growth of brain and organs get badly affected especially in case if pregnant women drink excessively.