Physical Exercise:

A Boost To Your Health And Spirit During

Low-risk Pregnancy!

Executive Summary about pregnancy support by Lopa Bhattacharya

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Can physical exercise during pregnancy support women for the stress of childbirth or does it pose serious health dangers? Well, a lot of debate ensued since January 2002, when the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) released new recommendations on exercise during pregnancy and the postpartum period, which, according to them, are supposed to encourage many women to get fit while pregnancy. On the other hand, there were some theoretic concerns which were raised about the safety of some forms of exercise during pregnancy. Various researches suggested that due to the physiologic changes as well as the hemodynamic response to exercise associated with pregnancy, some precautions should be observed.

According to them, physical exercise pursued during pregnancy results in a lot of calorie burn, which helps prevent them from being overweight during pregnancy and feel better in the process. Besides, physical exercise, they say, has its added benefits, like preventing gestational diabetes (a form of diabetes that sometimes develops during pregnancy), building the much-needed stamina for labor and delivery, relieving stress and coping with the postpartum period. Other than that, the world’s leading therapists and fitness experts today recommend physical exercise to new mothers to keep “baby blues” at bay, regain their energy and lose the weight they gained during pregnancy. Quite contrary to the old wives’ tales and established myths, today health practitioners suggest that a healthy woman can safely continue to do normal activities during pregnancy, which may include exercise, work, travel, and having sex. Yes, in case of low-risk pregnancies, they recommend would-be moms to pursue moderate physical activities and also exercise safely throughout their pregnancies, as they consider these to be beneficial for most pregnant women and their babies from the following aspects:

• Preparing the mothers’ body for childbirth as well as maintaining their overall physical fitness

According to some fitness experts, there are a few physiological benefits of exercising regularly during pregnancy. The physician on his/her part should screen for any contraindications to exercise and encourage patients to avoid overly vigorous activity, especially in the third trimester, when most pregnant women have a decreased tolerance for weight-bearing exercise.

What you can always consider during low-risk pregnancy include some moderate physical activities like brisk walking, dancing, swimming, Kegel exercises (pelvic toning), Relaxation/stretching, aerobics or yoga. These are certain examples of moderate and acceptable activities during pregnancy.

• Besides, any exercise which has a potential for abdominal trauma should be avoided. * Since pregnant women are more prone to injury of the ligaments, jumping or bouncing types of exercise are better avoided.

Back Pain in Pregnant Women

Executive Summary about pregnancy support by Orit Cox

Back pain in pregnant women is a very common complaint. In fact, as many as 80% of pregnant women will have back pain at some time during their pregnancy. There are several types of back pain that occur among expectant mothers, but low back pain is the most common. But why does your low back hurt during pregnancy?

This article will explore the causes of back pain during pregnancy, discuss the different types of back pain that occur, and provide information about what can be done to prevent and relieve prenatal back pain.

During pregnancy, your body produces a veritable cocktail of hormones. The primary role of relaxin is to loosen the joints and ligaments in your body in order to help them stretch and widen. As the ligaments and muscles which normally support your spine become lax, it can result in some instability in the spine, which can result in aching and discomfort.

There are two common types of low back pain in pregnancy, lumbar pain and posterior pelvic pain.

Lumbar pain is similar to the kind of back pain you may have experienced before you became pregnant. It can also result in pain that radiates to your legs.

Lumbar discomfort can be triggered by sitting or standing for extended periods of time or by repetitive lifting.

Posterior pelvic pain is low back ache that is experienced behind the pelvis, below the waist, and/or across the tailbone or sacrum. You may also have pubic pain. Posterior pelvic pain occurs four times more frequently than lumbar pain during pregnancy.

Posterior pelvic pain is often mistaken as sciatica. With sciatica, the leg pain is generally more severe than the spinal pain, and is accompanied by numbness, tingling, or pin-pricking sensations. Your risk of low back pain during pregnancy increases if you have had back aches before becoming pregnant or during a previous pregnancy. Exercise is essential for controlling and avoiding back pain. Regular exercise will stretch and strengthen your muscles and ligaments to better support your spine and prevent pregnancy back ache from occurring.

Pregnancy yoga, also known as prenatal yoga, is a wonderful exercise for pregnancy. It will help to both strengthen as well as stretch and loosen your body. At the same time, it helps relieve backaches.

Walking will help keep your legs and hips strong and flexible. Swimming allows you to have a full body work out with minimal stress and strain on the body. Aquatic exercises are highly recommended for pregnant women, and are especially gentle and easy on the body. Avoid any activity which is high impact, or over-stretches your body. This can aggravate backaches.

Specific exercises to alleviate low back pain during pregnancy include pelvic tilt exercises, Kegel exercises, back stretches, hamstring stretches, chest stretches, and wall squats.

If you must stand on your feet for long periods of time, try resting one foot on a low stool and change positions often.

When bending over, bend at the knees instead of the waist. Use your thigh muscles to push yourself back up instead of your spinal muscles. High heeled shoes can aggravate back pain.

The sleeping position most friendly for prenatal back pain sufferers is side sleeping, preferably on your left side. Try sleeping with your knees and hips bent. There are a wide variety of pillows available on the market that can help in alleviating spinal discomfort.

Meditation and breathing exercises, regular exercise, quality sleep, and adequate nutrition can all help keep you feeling more relaxed and at your best.

Some expectant mothers find that a warm (not hot) bath helps to alleviate pain. The magnesium in the Epsom salt is especially helpful at soothing tired and aching muscles.

Take extra time to rest and take care of yourself. If you are pregnant with back pain that is very intense, or your pain is rhythmic and feels like menstrual cramps, you should contact your health care provider for advice. If you are concerned about your pain, you should contact your health care provider for further evaluation.

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How to Calculate Conception Date

Executive Summary about conception date by Susan Baler

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The pregnancy test was positive… when can you expect that little baby to arrive? Doctors use a little gestational wheel to calculate pregnancy due dates. It is really easy to calculate your due date using this little math problem. Start with the date of the first day of your last period.

Now subtract three months. For example, if your last period began on August 23, 2008, you add 7 days and come up with August 30, 2008. Now subtract three months to get October 16, 2008. An important thing to remember about due dates is your baby can’t read a calendar or a schedule yet.

The average baby is born sometimes within two weeks before and two weeks after the estimated due date. So, if you were due on October 16, and baby wasn’t born until October 23… they are still on time. Labor begins through a complex communication between your baby and your body.

If your body isn’t ready, induction does not work well in most cases. So, when you are calculating your due date, keep in mind that this is just giving you a ball park date. Only about 5% of babies are actually born on their due date when they are allowed to trigger labor on their own.

Keep your due date in mind for planning your maternity wardrobe, your baby shower, and what baby clothes to begin with. All you need to do is put in the date of your last menstrual period, and you’ll be given the due date automatically.

Calculate Ovulation and Conception Date - To Conceive a Boy

Executive Summary about conception date by Margaret Eastman

Many people use the ovulation cycle to determine conception date, not aware that conception of either a girl or a boy is largely due to to the timing of intercourse during the ovulation cycle.

The 24 hour window, and for a brief time afterward is why you must calculate your ovulation cycle and conception date to conceive a boy.

If the Ovum, the egg released by your ovary, gets fertilized by a male sperm–> You have a BOY! If the ovum gets fertilized by female sperm–>Its a little girl!

Like all differences in males and females, there are differences in male and female sperm. Male sperm are fast, but weak and short lived. Female sperm are slow, but more robust and long lived.

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Pregnant With Twins - What to Expect

Exeutive Sumary about pregnant with twins by Tehmina Mazher

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If you are in the same situation then following will help you in understanding the twin pregnancy

How to know that I am pregnant with twins?

You are right in having doubts in your mind about having twins if

–You have gained a lot of weight.

–You are suffering from an excessive morning sickness.

What are the feelings of being pregnant with twins

The news of being pregnant with twins most of the times is accompanied with shock, stress and worries of you will handle the two babies at a time..During the twin pregnancy one feels more tired and gains a lot of weight as compared to the normal pregnancy and the result is that she might fed up early when pregnant with twins.

Whats are the Symptoms of Twin Pregnancy?

The body also reacts more to these pregnancy hormones by giving more pregnancy symptoms.

Probability of Giving Birth to Twins

Exeutive Sumary about pregnant with twins by Yana Mikheeva

Giving birth to twins (and sometimes to triplets) is a dream of many women, regardless of the fact that plural pregnancy proceeds more difficult and requires a special vigilance. It’s interesting, that for the last 20 years, statistics of giving birth to twins, triplets and more increased significantly. Deliveries of 0,5 - 2% of women finish with birth of twins, triplets, more seldom four and five babies.

Do you have a chance?

1. Age of a mother.

A probability of birth of two and more babies increases, if a mother is older than 35 years.

2. Inheritance.

If some of your or your husband’s relatives has twins, then your probability of giving birth to several babies at once is extremely high (especially, if you inherited this trait from your mother).

3. Genesial technologies.

Often women, who were prescribed hormonal medicines during sterility treatment or while preparation to artificial extracorporal fertilization, get plural pregnancy. Hormonal medicines stimulate ovulation in the midst of a cycle and, if a woman receives overdose of a medicine, then several ovules come out of ovary follicle at once, not just one. As a rule, doctors “remove” excess ovules. In USA and Israel there were cases, when women gave birth to 6 or 7 babies at once.

Sings of plural pregnancy

Moreover, unfortunately, doctors not always can give you an exact answer about your pregnancy during the first 10-12 days.

Psychological factor. Often mothers of twins admit that they knew about their forth-coming birth on the earliest terms of pregnancy. If you feel, you’re expecting twins, tell your doctor about it for sure.

High biochemical indexes. Women pregnant with twins have increased indexes of some biochemical tests. Intensive morning sickness and/or vomiting. More heightened, in comparison with usual pregnancy, content of hormone HCG (pregnancy hormone) can increase morning sickness. Intensification of other pregnancy sings. Many (but not all) women, expecting twins, suffer from other intensified sings of pregnancy - due to a significant increase of hormones, in comparison with usual pregnancy.

In the second term a woman may suffer from strong breathlessness, hands and legs spasms, sudden increase in weight and belly sizes, and an intensive stir of fetus. Hemoglobin decrease or anemia - are also usual events for plural pregnancy. And in general, this is not surprising, as during such pregnancy a load on a future mother’s organism increases in several times, depending on the quantity of babies she’s bearing.

Unfortunately, this means that complications are much more often met during such pregnancy.

Quick weight increase since the first days of pregnancy. High physiological indexes. During the first medical examination doctors will be already able to tell you that your uterus size is little bigger for your assumed term of pregnancy. This tendency will remain for the whole term of pregnancy. Heartbeat of two hearts can be heard.

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