The number 1 thing I recommend in pregnancy.

The number 1 thing that I recommend to every single client of mine throughout their entire pregnancy, WALKING!! Walking during pregnancy has a number of benefits, and is extremely low-risk.

*ALWAYS make sure you double check with your healthcare provider to ensure that you are considered low-risk and able to participate in certain activites. This is NOT medical advice, and can not be taken as that.*

While you may get more and more uncomfortable as the pregnancy goes on, taking a 30 minute brisk walk around the block 3-5 times a week can make an impact on your pregnancy and ultimately your birth experience.

There are a variety of other low-risk activites that you can do to help stay active in your pregnancy, which is the ultimate goal and reason for recommending walking. Things like swimming, stationary biking, and modified pilates and yoga are all good activities to try if you have the ability and resources available. I recommend walking the most because I’m aware that not every person has the resources to be able to do the other activites. Walking is the one thing that everyone would have access to!

Staying active with low-risk, low-impact exercise, like walking, can lower your risks during pregnancy, ease constipation, reduce back pain, and help improve your sleep!

By staying active the risk of gestation diabetes (GDM), or having poorly managed GDM is lower, along with preeclampsia and a cesarean birth are also lower. Walking helps the intestines to work by stimulating your bowels. The more stimulation, the better they work, easing constipation. Walking during pregnancy can help strengthen your back and core muscles. This strengthening can improve your posture, and in turn help ease your back pain. Promoting walking in the second half of pregnancy, specifically, can help prevent the appearance of insomia in the third trimester. Thus, increasing the quality of sleep.

Were you recommended to walk during your pregnancy? Did you see the benefits of walking!?

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