The benefits of moving more during pregnancy begin immediately and last your whole life. Your baby will start reaping the benefits in utero, too. Here’s a laundry list of reasons to start exercising today.
- Builds confidence
- Increases energy
- Helps control weight
- Reduces risk of heart disease
- Improves mental health and mood
- Strengthens bones and muscles
- Reduces risk of some cancers
- Leads to better sleep at night
- Decreases stress and worry
- Helps your body manage and maintain insulin levels
- Sharpens thinking, learning, and judgement skills
- Improves sexual function
- Increases longevity odds
- Reduces risk of falls
- Teaches you breathing techniques that can be used during labor & birth
- Reduce pregnancy discomforts and pains
- Speed up post-delivery recovery
- May lower odds of requiring a caesarean section delivery
- Labor and delivery time may be quicker
- Boost the “feel good” chemicals in your body
- Improves posture
- May prevent gestational diabetes
- May lower odds of delivery complications
- Lowers blood pressure
- Fights fatigue
