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An active pregnancy

Being active and getting regular exercise during pregnancy will build up your stamina and improve your suppleness and strength. This will help you cope with the extra demands made on your body as it adapts to pregnancy and childbirth. By exercising you can also develop a better understanding of what your body can do and learn different ways of relaxing.

  • Staying active

    Stay active for a fit pregnancy

    Exercising helps you feel positive so you're less likely to think of yourself as clumsy, fat, or ungainly, particularly in the last three months. Your circulation will improve and that can help to ease tension.
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  • Exercise for you both

    Exercise: good for you and baby

    Taking some regular exercise helps you feel happier as well as keeping you fit. It's an enjoyable way of getting ready for the months of change ahead.Every time you exercise within your limits, your baby gets a surge of oxygen into her blood that sets her metabolism alight and gives her a real...
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  • Your pelvic floor

    Exercising your pelvic floor

    Your pelvic floor muscles form a funnel that supports your uterus, bowel, and bladder, and closes the entrances to your vagina, rectum, and urethra.
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  • Sport during pregnancy

    Sport during pregnancy

    Being pregnant isn’t a reason to give up sport altogether but obviously, during pregnancy not all sports are suitable. Using some good old-fashioned common sense and respecting a few rules, you can keep fit during these special nine months – there’s no need to let yourself go!
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