I'm back. After 7 months of weddings, life changes, and BABY on board, I've now decided to get back to blogging my life of fitness. Which has not been too great I confess, due to pregnancy. With 12 weeks left, I decided to come up with a 12 week, baby "Bump it", work out routine. I found an awesome site called Be Fit Mom, and will be taking some ideas and sticking them into somewhat of a routine until this baby is ready to hatch :)If you would like to follow what I'm doing on a weekly basis, I'd love it! ((Hit the follow button))...Especially for those Prenatal and Postnatal moms!
*Now I'm almost 28 wks!
Here are some key beneficiaries for staying fit as an expectant mom!
During Labor and Delivery, Fit Women Experience:
- Easier adaptation to the lower-intensity endurance activity of early labor.
- Shorter first and second stages of labor.
- Enhanced pain tolerance.
- Increased stamina for labor and delivery, with less perceived exertion during labor.
- Lower incidences of intervention during labor.
- Substantially fewer caesarian births.
- Good pelvic muscle tone-resulting in fewer episiotomies/tearing.
Adherence to Strength, Cardiovascular and flexibility Programs during Pregnancy also:
- Boosts maternal immune-system function which continues to benefit her baby after birth through breastfeeding.
- More efficiently delivers blood and oxygen to the heart and brain, enhancing concentration and energy-levels.
- Helps manage or prevent gestational diabetes.
- More effectively controls weight gain, which - in addition to physical benefits - enhances body image, confidence, and self-awareness.
- Improves posture and results in fewer aches and pains.
- Aids in quicker postpartum recovery.
- Decreases incidence of falls.
- Reduces stress, anxiety, and insomnia, imparting an overall improvement in sleeping patterns, possibly lowering risk for depression.
- A larger placenta develops, which increases the capacity to exchange oxygen and CO2, and nutrients and waste products.
- Increases the cardiovascular capacity of the baby.
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