Pregnancy News- Precaution Before And During Pregnancy

Becoming a mother is one of the most exciting times in a woman's life. This relationship expert will help you learn what you can do before, during, and after pregnancy to give your baby a healthy start to life.

 

A study published in the American Journal of Psychiatry suggests an association between smoking during pregnancy and increased risk for developing bipolar disorder (BD) in adult children. Researchers at the New York State Psychiatric Institute and the Department of Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, in collaboration with scientists at the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research in Oakland, California, evaluated offspring from a large cohort of pregnant women who participated in the Child Health and Development Study (CHDS) from 1959-1966.

Smoking during pregnancy can lead you to contribute significant problems in utero and following birth like low birth weight and attentional difficulties. This is the old tale that smoking is injurious for health especially in pregnancy but this is the first study suggest that association between prenatal tobacco exposure and BD can lead you to the serious psychiatric illness. This is marked by many shifts in mood that alternate between periods of depression and mania.

Pregnant women with cancer are on the rise these days. The number of pregnant women diagnosed with cancer has increased over the past few decades. Researchers couldn’t determine that what the main reason behind it is but said it could be due to older average age of expectant moms. The risk of cancer increases with the ages 35 plus.

According to the reports from the Annals of Epidemiology however, the theobromine content in cocoa can help prevention of pre-eclampsia. Research from Yale University concludes after questioning dietary habits of 2,500 pregnant women that those who eat chocolate regularly are 50 percent less likely to suffer from pre-eclampsia during the pregnancy. It should be the great reason that why pregnant women should eat chocolates. This is because these luscious treats are found to improve a pregnant woman's condition by preventing certain complications including pre-eclampsia. According to studies, chocolate can not only relieve a pregnant woman's stress levels but also makes happier babies.

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Pregnancy Workouts- 5 Most Effective Workouts During Pregnancy

Pregnancy workouts are very important for those who are suffering from morning sickness, back pain, and swollen feet. It seems more relaxing than gym. Experts say that exercises during pregnancy gives pregnant women more energy, strengthen the muscles, reduces weight gain during pregnancy, it helps with insomnia and lower risk for pregnancy complications. Experts says that if you were not very active before conceiving so, exercises during pregnancy can improve your mood too and helps you feel like active and energetic throughout the day. Recent studies have revealed that exercises in pregnancy periods give the positive effects on your unborn baby. So, are you ready to learn the most effective exercises during pregnancy, which will not only helps you but it’s very helpful in your unborn baby too? Let’s begin…

1.     Prenatal yoga- As we all know that yoga is good for overall health. Now a day’s many diseases and much type of health problems are cured by yoga. So, if you are doing yoga everyday throughout your pregnancy, you can have the much easier time for labor and delivery and you can recover very fast and easily after delivery. The most important thing to remember that you have to avoid lying on your stomach, deep twisting, quick movements, crunches, holding your breath and lying on your back after 20 weeks of pregnancy.

2.     Walking- It should be along walk or a short walk. It increases the blood circulation, stretches, tones and it helps you in maintain mind calmness. It has effect on pre baby stress too.

3.     Swimming- It’s surprising to hear that swimming during pregnancy but it’s true. Swimming takes all the pressure off of the joints, provides resistance, and helps control blood sugar with the wonderful feeling of zero gravity. It makes new moms to feel over all better. Doctors may advice you to avoid swimming if you have lost your mucus plug.

4.     Dance- You can have a great fun along with circulation and the movements of dances like salsa, zumba, or ballet lengthen and strengthen the muscles. It effects especially in the lower body. Experts said, it will safe and more effective if you dance under an instructor who has specific prenatal experience.

5.     Resistance training- According to a study from Michigan State University, resistance training 3 days a week for 20 to 30 minutes helps pregnant women lower the risk of gestational diabetes, high blood pressure, weight gain and it also helps in keeping the muscles and bones strong and endurance up.

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists suggests pregnant women to do 30 minutes of exercises in all days of the week. The most important thing is before starting any kind of exercise, you need to take permission from your doctor.