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What Kind of Exercise is Appropriate During Pregnancy?
What kind of exercise is appropriate during pregnancy?
Swimming is a sport smooth and efficient at the same time on the assumption that she had not swum regularly before, you should begin slowly swimming, just for ten minutes in the first three sessions, then you can slowly increase the time up to twenty minutes at a normal pace, two or three times a week. There is desirable that the water temperature is too hot, between 18 and 25 degrees Celsius. Nor is it advisable to go to saunas or hot baths.
In the case of the pregnant woman chooses to go cycling, there is no problem until the heart rate rises excessively maternal and while during the pregnancy appears called pelvic arthropathy, produced as a result of relaxation and movement the joints of the pelvis.
Undoubtedly, brisk walking is an excellent alternative for those women who have previously been sedentary during pregnancy but want to stay in shape without too much effort. Read the rest of this entry »
Exercise During Pregnancy
Is exercising safe during pregnancy?
Usually do not need to limit exercise for pregnant women, as long as no excessive fatigue or perform activities that may hurt her or the fetus.
While gynecologists allow a woman accustomed to aerobic exercise before pregnancy the continue along it, are not advised to intensify the effort, or that women with sedentary lifestyle now begin an aerobic activity beyond a walk.
What are the benefits of exercise during pregnancy?
The exercise during pregnancy helps women to be more active, with a body more flexible and fit. The exercise will provide the non-pregnant women gain more weight than recommended, this is about ten or twelve kilos. Besides the regular exercise is used to combat constipation characteristic of pregnancy. The joints give fewer problems in women into sports. Read the rest of this entry »
Folic Acid and pregnancy
If you have not heard of folic acid is good that you know because deficiency is devastating for the breeding season, especially in countries where many births.
Folic acid was known to the anemia, but since the 80′s has discovered the damage that causes deficiency in pregnancy: stillbirth or without anencephalic skull, spine with serious abnormalities not be closed and starting or spine bifida (this causes the bone out and form meningoceles or mielomengoceles discovered that being infected, causing severe infection and often death).
It is therefore important that parents take their daughters from development, the doctor of his choice and the best nutrition advice and more rich in folic acid and pregnant women who come as soon as possible with your gynecologist and nutritionist doctor for a pregnancy, a marriage and a happy life. And remember, do not treat yourself.
Better Sleep During Pregnancy
One of the problems that can occur during pregnancy, especially with advancing pregnancy is insomnia, as the feeling of discomfort at bedtime often prevents sleep. However, it is something that can be overcome by following a few tips:
- Sleep on your side. You should not sleep on their backs because, especially in the last quarter, this causes the uterus weight rests on the spine and gut, you can cause pain in the waist, respiratory distress and difficulty in digestion. It is best to sleep on their side, choosing the side on which you are most comfortable.
When pregnancy is well advanced on a pillow between your legs and special pillows to support the belly to sleep.
- If the urge to the closeness of delivery that prevents you from sleeping, it is best to relax before bedtime. You can take a hot bath has a relaxing effect or ask your partner to give you a relaxing massage together with essential oils. Thus, while your body relaxes, your mind will too. Read the rest of this entry »
Diabetes During Pregnancy
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Studies have shown that during pregnancy the fetus may acquire certain patterns of behavior related to eating.
This is why it is essential during pregnancy to keep a healthy lifestyle so that the child may grow well. Scientists talk of fetal programming or prenatal imprinting.
During pregnancy the fetus is attached to the body of the mother through the umbilical cord and placenta, through this reach the fetus not only nutrients and supplements needed for growth of the fetus, also came to the hormones, waste products of metabolism.
Many women suffer during pregnancy gestational diabetes diagnosed. Due to hormonal changes in pregnancy the action of insulin is restricted, the blood sugar rises. Read the rest of this entry »