Recommended exercises during pregnancy

As we discussed earlier, exercises are very good for an expectant mom. However, it is very important that you check with your doctor before starting up with the exercises. Because there may be medical reasons which may not allow you to do physical activities. As some pregnant women may have bleeding during this period where they would have been advised by the doctors to be on bed rest throughout the pregnancy period. So get your doctors permission before exercising.

If you have no problem in exercising then some exercises are recommended for you. It is always good to do some cardio vascular exercises like walking, jogging, and swimming. However, remember that the intensity of the exercises should be low. Do not force yourself. When you feel tired or suffocating or feel difficult to breath, please slow down your workouts. Overheating of body is not good. Avoid exercising during hot sunny day. Finish of your exercises before the sun gets hotter or do your workouts after the sunset. Drink plenty of water.

Dance and slow aerobics are also very good for pregnant women. Start your exercises slowly and always start your exercises with stretches. Make sure you stretch your arms, thighs, upper back, and lower back. Above all these exercises, it is well and good to do yoga during the pregnancy period.

Benefits of exercising during pregnancy

As I told you earlier, fatigue, weight gain, body pain, emotional imbalances are some of the most common problems faced my pregnant women. Exercises cannot stop them but it can help you overcome these problems with ease.
Exercises help you to keep your mind relaxed. It improves your mood and makes you feel stress free. It helps in digestion problem and reduces constipation. When you do exercises regularly, it helps you to avoid unnecessary weight gain. Proper stretches will help you by reducing your back pain and relaxes the stiff muscles. Exercises help you to build your stamina and enhance your energy level.
When your physical activities involve your leg muscles, it helps you to strengthen the abdominal muscles. It reduces your morning sickness and helps you to feel fresh. It reduces the chances of gestational diabetes. It makes you sleep well. It will help you to feel stronger and prepares you for the labor.
Above all, the exercises what you do helps your baby to be born. Doctor has found that the baby’s cardiovascular function improves when the mom does some exercises, there by reduces the chances of cardiovascular diseases. Therefore, make it a habit to do some sort of exercise during pregnancy too. Before starting your exercises, confirm with your physician what exercises you are allowed to do and what you should not do.

Exercises during pregnancy

In general, we know that exercises are very good for our body. To activate the inactive cell, we need to do some physical activities that involve the inactive muscles. Therefore, exercises are good. However, is it advisable to do exercises during pregnancy? This is a big question among most pregnant women. I too had the same question and my doctor cleared it.
The answer for the question is “YES, you can do exercises during pregnancy”. It is actually a very necessary one. You have to exercise during pregnancy.
It is common that during pregnancy period, you feel tired, you gain weight, you cannot even walk freely, you get so much of body pain and something will pull you back from all your activities. Why all these happen? The answer is just because of lack of exercise. That is physical movements. So we have to do some sort of exercise during pregnancy.

Worries of an expectant dad

When the expectant dads hear from their partners about their pregnancy, an unknown fear arises in their mind. They start feeling that they are pushed into a new unfamiliar, mysterious, adventurous world.
In general, we can say that the expectant dads have fear about sharing their partner’s love with a new member, even though it is his baby.
The next fear is about the security, whether his earnings will be well enough to support both his wife and the baby to be born. Because in most families there will be a change from two incomes to one income. Now the single salary has to serve three members. Therefore, the expectant dad has to be really a strong person both mentally and financially.
The next common one is fear of performance. Whether he can be a good dad for his baby? Can he perform his duties properly as a dad? Whether he will be able to guide his child properly in studies and in life?
Next is his fear of pains. Not his body pain but that of his wife’s. It is a natural human nature that we cannot tolerate our loved ones health problems. That to during the pregnancy time, it is very difficult for the men to see their wives suffering with back pain, body pain, headache, nausea, vomiting… Most men cannot withstand the labor pain and blood of their wife.
Then comes the fear for relationship. Almost all men will have fears about how the child will behave with him. Whether his baby will come to him with a smiling face? Whether his child will stay for longer time with him? How soon the child will recognize him as its dad? Main fear is about his rights towards the baby. Because most of the women will always keep a checkpoint for their husband, in moving with the child. Like don’t touch when he is sleeping, wash hands before touching the baby, don’t kiss the baby on its cheeks, so on…

Reactions of an expectant dad

Universally many people believe that once the couples get to know about the formation of their baby, the only reaction they show is happiness. Moreover, most of them feel that the expectant couples will very sooner start feeling the parenthood. That is not the true status. Many people face difficulties in coming out of their couple’s status to parents’ status. In addition, no one can expect an overnight transition.

Especially an expectant dad will take much more time to enjoy his baby’s development. That to the first time dads will fear of many things. Their joyfulness may be covered with lot of questions that spoils their happiness. Before becoming an expectant dad, that is when there is no actual commitments, they may feel fatherhood to be very simple. Only after knowing their partners pregnancy, the real anxiety starts.

Is depression during pregnancy a hormonal change?

For years, doctors around the world believed that depression during pregnancy is not due to hormonal changes. However, in the recent years, after so many research works, doctors in different parts of the world has found out that pregnant women feel depressed due to hormonal changes. In general, pregnancy period is the most ecstatic period for almost all women. However, due to hormonal changes, they experiences different mindsets. Their mood keeps changing or wavering. During this period if any other cause adds to it, they become depressed.

At least two among ten pregnant women will be facing this problem. So be frank to your doctors or midwives, so that they may help you out by some mental exercises. Above all, tell you people at home how you feel and ask them to help you. Because, in most cases the family problems are the ones which leads to depression. Try to keep yourself relaxed. If you think that your job may pressurize you, then it is better to take a break. As far as possible, keep your mind healthy and out of tensions. Because, depression may affect the fetal’s growth. It may directly reflect on the brain development of your baby. So have a relaxed pregnancy period.

Finding out the due date

Once after you found that you are pregnant, the next exciting thing is to find out the due date. Due date is the most probable date, when your baby is going to see this beautiful world. All pregnant women will be very eager to know their due date. Calculating the due date is very simple, if you know your last menstrual period starting date. The average time or days for the fetal development are 280 days or 40 weeks or 9 months and 7 days. However, for this calculation, you need to remember your LMP date correctly. In general, the delivery done in between 38 weeks to 42 weeks is considered the full term. When the baby is born before 38 weeks, it is called premature baby and if the baby is yet to be born after 42 weeks, then the pregnant woman will be induced or forced to deliver the baby naturally or through a c-section.