Exercise During Pregnancy, Recommendations and What to Avoid

Pregnancy Podcast

Vanessa Merten

Newborn, Parent, Homebirth, Vbac, Kids & Family, Doula, Firsttimemom, Midwife, Pregnancy, Doctor, Parenting, Pregnant, Vanessamerten, Physician, Csection, Prenatalcare, Breastfeeding, Naturalbirth, Nursing, Birthcenter, Family, Baby, Hospitalbirth, Health, Obgyn, Research, Trimester, Expecting, Labor, Mom, Diet, Dad, Birth

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🗓️ 11 February 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Regular exercise during pregnancy can decrease your risk of complications like gestational diabetes, preeclampsia, and cesarean birth and promote a healthy weight gain. Working out can also ease common pregnancy symptoms like constipation and back pain. In addition, living an active lifestyle will improve your physical and mental health in the short and long term. This episode overviews exercise in pregnancy, including recommendations and what activities you should avoid.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the pregnancy podcast with Vanessa Merton.
0:10.0	Hello, thank you for tuning into the pregnancy podcast. In today's episode, we're
0:16.4	talking about exercise during pregnancy. As you can imagine, there are so many
0:21.6	benefits of exercising when you're pregnant. Regular exercise can decrease
0:26.3	your risk of complications like gestational diabetes, pre-Eclamsia, and cesarean birth birth and it can help promote a healthy weight gain.
0:36.5	Working out can also ease some common pregnancy symptoms like constipation and back pain,
0:42.1	plus just living an active lifestyle is going to improve
0:46.0	your physical and mental health not just in the short term but also in the long term.
0:52.0	You can find the full article and all of the resources that accompany this
0:55.7	episode at pregnancy podcast.com slash exercise. You are listening to the public feed of the podcast and will have access to the last year of
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1:21.0	pregnancy, birth, and being a new parent.
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1:27.6	As I'm sure you can imagine, it takes a tremendous amount of time to dig through research
1:32.2	for episodes.
1:33.6	Your support of this podcast as a premium member makes it possible for me to spend weeks diving
1:38.5	into a topic and distill it down into one short podcast episode for you. Become a pregnancy
1:45.1	podcast premium member at pregnancy podcast.com slash premium. This episode is
1:52.4	going to be an overview of exercise in pregnancy and
1:55.7	there are more in-depth episodes on specific exercises including cardio,
2:00.9	strength training, or weightlifting, and yoga. Another thing exercise is great
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