Are you pregnant but want to keep fit? Then yoga could be what you are looking for. Research suggests that prenatal yoga is safe and can have many benefits for pregnant women and their babies.
Yoga can help women get through their pregnancy with minimal discomfort. It also helps the birth and post-delivery stages. Posture is also improved by yoga and this can help ease back problems, which are common in pregnant women.
And yoga continues to have benefits after pregnancy, too. Postnatal yoga, which can be started about six weeks after the birth, strengthens abdominal muscles and your pelvic floor. It also helps you to get back to your pre-pregnancy shape faster.
- Make sure your feet are below your hips.
- Keep your knees soft and back straight.
- Place one hand on the pubic bone and other on the sacrum.
- Bend knees, sticking your bottom out.
- Exhale and scoop forward.
- Using muscles in your abdomen and bottom.
- Transform it into a walk.
- Scooping while rolling through the front foot.
- You can even do two scoops each step.
Benefits:
- Helps with descent of the baby.
- Good for lower back, works lighly on abdominal muscles, legs and pelvic floor.
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