Mental Benefits:

• Exercise helps stabilize your moods and increase your energy during pregnancy.
• Exercise increases confidence in your changing body image and decreases feelings of apprehension about labor and delivery.

Physical Benefits:

• Mothers-to-be who exercise experience less lower-back pain and depression than their sedentary counterparts.
• Women who exercise during pregnancy experience fewer pre-natal discomforts such as: constipation, swelling of extremities, bloating, nausea, leg cramps, varicose veins, insomnia, fatigue, back pain, and incontinence.
• Women who exercise throughout their pregnancies return to activities of normal daily life 40% faster than less active women.

Impact of Exercise on the Quality of Pregnancy and Birth:

• Physical activity during pregnancy reduces the incidence of gestational diabetes by half, and the risk of pre-eclampsia by 35%.
• Sedentary women are 4.5 times more likely to have a Cesarean delivery than active women.
• Women who continue weightbearing exercise throughout pregnancy experience less problematic deliveries (75% decrease in the need for forceps or C-section, 75% decrease in maternal exhaustion, 50% decrease in the need for Pitocin, and a 50% decrease in the need to intervene due to fetal heart-rate abnormalities).
• Exercising women have been shown to have active labor that was 30% shorter than control groups.
• Pregnant women who exercise have babies with higher APGAR scores. The higher the APGAR score -- the healthier the newborn.

Don’t wait any longer to begin your prenatal fitness program.
The time is now to become One Fit Mama™