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Recovering After Pregnancy

Although the birth of each of my sons was different, I have noticed a similarity between the two experiences in how I feel afterwards. The overall theme of what I felt after my first pregnancy and what I am feeling now is to get up, get out, get moving, and otherwise resume my normal daily activities. As I share my experience in the pregnancy recovery department, please keep in mind that since each woman and each pregnancy is different, your plan for pregnancy recovery and resumption of daily activities should be discussed with your doctors or midwives to ensure your … Continue reading →

Exercise in the First Trimester

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Exercise is hard regardless if you are pregnant or not. It just is. It takes commitment, will-power, and education. For pregnant women exercise is absolutely imperative. Exercise along with diet can almost guarantee a pregnancy free of major complications, manageable labor, and natural delivery. Pregnant women are strongly encouraged to engage in some form of exercise daily during pregnancy. As to the intensity and type of exercise: this depends entirely on the individual pregnant woman. If she is active and has been exercising regularly before pregnancy, she can continue her regular exercise routine until it becomes uncomfortable at which point … Continue reading →

Safety is a Good Choice for Your Health

For a large portion of the year, it’s dark when I drive to work at the cats-only boarding facility. I usually take a back road, rather than the highway — less traffic, nice scenery, a better ride all around. This particular road has very little in the way of shoulders — and no sidewalks — for bikers and walkers. Two mornings in a row, I’ve encountered someone who didn’t take safety seriously. One was on a bike, riding down the middle of the road. Thankfully, I saw the bike’s reflectors and knew something was in my path… but didn’t make … Continue reading →

Exercise Won’t Decrease Your Chances of Cesarean

Go ahead and exercise during your pregnancy, but don’t expect it to increase your chances of having your “dream birth.” That is one conclusion drawn from a recent research study by Dr. Ruben Barakat and his colleagues, at Universidad Politecnica de Madrid in Spain. The study followed 142 women for the second and third trimesters. Half of them followed a moderate exercise plan and the other half exercised very little or not at all. While the study confirmed the health benefits commonly associated with exercise during pregnancy, it did not confirm the previously held assumption that women who exercise are … Continue reading →

The Pregnancy Blog Week in Review for August 5-12

The Pregnancy Blog is a great source of information for everything from trying to conceive a baby up to the birth and the early postpartum period. Whether this is your first or fifth baby, you will find something interesting or new in our archives. The Week in Review offers a synopsis of the blogs posted this week. If you are pregnant, you may have heard that you shouldn’t change the litter box. You may be wondering exactly why this is harmful. What is Toxoplasmosis? answers questions about this infection and how to avoid coming in contact with it. Morning sickness … Continue reading →

Safe Exercises for the Pool

Swimming is a great exercise choice for pregnancy. It’s low impact and cardiovascular. Exercising in the water helps prepare your body for giving birth. Swimming stregnthens and tones the body. Water Exercises also stretch the muscles, which helps prepare you for labor. You can take a class or exercise on your own. Any exercise that can be done on land can be done in the water. You can walk, jog or do any other motion exercise while in the pool. The water level should be above the navel for the best movement. Before you begin any exercise routine you should … Continue reading →

Exercise is Vital to for a Healthy Pregnancy

We’ve talked about pregnancy exercise both here and in the Fitnessblog previously. At the time that I found out I was pregnant with my first child, I was just starting a new fitness regimen. My doctor said it was all right to continue with the exercise as long as it was low impact (low weight, high number of reps) and since I rode regularly, I could continue to ride for the first trimester and even some during the second trimester. There were two tricks to maintaining my exercise and fitness during the pregnancy: avoiding injury, but building up muscle strength … Continue reading →

Losing Weight Post-Pregnancy

We talked about losing pregnancy weight yesterday. Today I want to take a look at what a woman should look into as she prepares to lose her pregnancy weight post-partum. While I can’t endorse any one single plan as the best plan for losing weight, I do have some good ideas of how to do your planning. First and foremost, give yourself that six to ten weeks after the baby is born to recover. You may find yourself shedding excess weight through breast-feeding. When a woman breast-feeds, her uterus will tighten up and that helps to reduce the levels of … Continue reading →

Preparing For Labor

Like all good things, each pregnancy will come to an end. What awaits at the end of pregnancy? Labor and delivery. While I am a firm believer in not telling labor stories to anyone who is pregnant, I am also a firm believer in being prepared for the experience of labor. Preparedness for labor is less about which childbirth class you take or which technique you plan to use than it is about having made a plan for how you would like to proceed. At its most basic, preparing for labor includes talking to your health care provider and getting … Continue reading →

Forget The Don’t List Here Are Things That You Can Do While Pregnant

There can be days when it seems like your positive pregnancy test came with a list of restrictions a mile long. You go to the neighborhood deli to get some lunch and then realize that you have been told not to eat lunch meat. Ski season is just around the corner and you realize that you are going to have to sit this one out. Depending upon how far along you are in pregnancy and how your pregnancy is progressing, you may be even further restricted by bed rest and other activity limitations as you go along. Even on those … Continue reading →