Pregnancy Miracle-At Age-43

Sunday, October 18, 2009

Some Useful Tips on Diet & Exercise for Pregnant Women

It is absolutely essential that you remain fit, hale and hearty during your pregnancy. Good mixture of healthy diet and easy workouts could work wonder for your health and during pregnancy. You will not accumulate the usual fat that is the syndrome effecting most pregnant woman and will not lose your attractive body structure despite pregnancy. However do not forget to consult your physician or health care provider who is acquainted with your anatomic systems and who can give you the correct advice on the workouts to be made safely before, after or during pregnancy.

Some of the stretching exercises do very well during your pregnancy. It makes the muscles limber as well as warm and the conditions are very helpful during pregnancy. For instance you can take up neck or shoulder rotation as your workout. Slowly rotating your shoulder or neck will relax you quite a bit and it will relax the muscles in your body. Rotations should be slow and made in all directions. Just four or five rotations daily for your neck or shoulder would be ideal workout for you.

One of the most effective and good exercise is swimming. You can place your arms at the sides and take up the swimming with crawl strokes, one arm at a time and perform ten times. Thigh shift by putting your weight alternatively on each of your thighs, leg shaking, and ankle rotations will be the exercises that you can perform during your pregnancy which will give you good health so essential for the well being of the pregnant mother and the unborn child.

Conversely you could also take up Kegel exercises during your pregnancy. They help strengthening the muscles and at the same time support the bladder, uterus as well as the bowels. Your ability for relaxation as well as controlling the muscles preparing the labor as well as birth will be enhanced considerably with these exercises. These are exercises that are also usually recommended by doctors for the postpartum period. The objectives are promoting the healings of tissues as well as enhancing the pelvic muscle strength. With the exercises the pregnant woman can return to healthy state and they immensely help the urinal controls as well. One important restriction while performing the Kegel exercises is not moving your leg, buttock or the abdominal muscles. On the other hand the exercises are such that you can perform anywhere.

In any case a judicious combination of healthy diet and simple yet effective workouts can work wonders for the health of pregnant mother and well being of the unborn child.