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Nine Months of Strength
Your Guide to a Healthy Baby
By Teri Brown
Bridson gives the following tips to begin training for your delivery. Remember to check with your health practitioner before starting this or any other exercise regime:
Preventing backache before and after pregnancy:
There are a number of exercises women can do to ease backache during pregnancy. The pelvic rock, abdominal contractions and the incline crunch can all help strengthen your abdominal muscles, thereby giving more support to your taxed lower back (with the weight of the baby). Many yoga poses also can help with lower back pain, including spinal rolls, downward dog, cat's pose and open spinal twist. Both before and after pregnancy, good posture (keeping shoulders back and pelvis in as neutral a position as you can manage) is the best way to ease back pain. Birthing positions:
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