Activity in pregnancy helps you later on
November 17, 2008 by Marijke Durning, RN
Filed under Women's Health
So much for curling up in bed, reading a good book and waiting for nine months for your baby to be born… What? That’s not what you had planned? Might have made a nice dream though.
Anyway, it’s best that you don’t do that anyway because I’m bringing to you yet another study about pregnancy. This one says that women who stay active and who exercise throughout their pregnancies are healthier for many years, even decades, after their pregnancies, compared with their peers who didn’t exercise.
The results of a study of 39 women were published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Twenty of the women continued their usual exercise routine during pregnancy and the other 19 stopped exercising by the third month. All 39 began exercising again six months after delivering their baby.
Not only were the women who exercised through pregnancy at a higher fitness level (82% of their pre-pregnant exercise level) than those who didn’t exercise (52%), the first group also had a lower resting heart rate and lower levels of LDH, the so-called bad cholesterol.
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Tags: pregnancy blog, exercise while pregnant, activity in pregnancy
Yeah, I agree with what you said in this article. Some of my female friends can get back to their before-pregnancy-body-shape easily, because they were active during their pregnancy and after the baby delivered, they do their ‘real-role’ as a mother. And the good news is it helps them to get their normal weight back