- May 25, 2019
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- Posted by: Dr. Anushri Shah
Engaging yourself in prenatal yoga is relaxing and provides benefit to the body, emotional state of mind and is the key and an important ingredient for leading a healthy and happy pregnancy. It is a healthy practice that can be initiated by you during the time of pregnancy and it has proven its merits time and again on pregnant women, by keeping them calm and relaxed in the most crucial months of their life. There are different ways prenatal yoga can help you when you are pregnant and make a positive difference. Few of the changes are as follows:
- It supports the changing body: during pregnancy, your body goes through a myriad of change that requires to be adjusted by you. Prenatal yoga does the work for you. It is designed specifically to support that sea of changes that the body goes through. It is healthy and a safe way to stretch and strengthen the muscle along with the body, especially the lower part of the body. So, the method of providing support to the growing belly is sustained.
- Important muscle groups are toned: prenatal yoga tones the physical body, the abdominal cores along with preparing for the process of giving birth. Muscles that are toned properly provides for the right amount of balance between the strength and the length it is neither tight nor lax. Maintaining the muscle tone during the time of the pregnancy, but with all the poses of yoga and backbends in a gentle manner, it can help in minimizing the pains and aches during those nine months and brings the body to a toned condition after the delivery. The hip muscle and especially the pelvic floor.
- Prepares your body for labor and thereafter delivery: one of the advantage in taking up prenatal yoga is it teaches women the importance of opening up and to trust their bodies regarding the fact that their body will definitely help them to give birth. Working properly along with the prenatal yoga through the methods of deep and breathing mindfully can help find peace along with the body can learn the process to loosen up and relax. You can let the body do what the instincts of the body know to do that is to give birth.
- Prenatal yoga helps in forming a connection with the baby: even going to the class for once for taking up the yoga is a reminder, that time requires to take out for the baby and mommy! As the pregnancy progresses it is obvious and important to form a bond with the baby and your body will respond differently to the various yoga poses and it will give you a constant reminder that there are steady changes going in your body. Certain poses will prove to be helpful and will relax you further as you practice breathing deeply appropriately.
- Gives relief to other pregnancy problems: by the process of stretching and muscles toning you can help in circulating blood throughout your body in a healthy manner. It helps you to cope in a proper manner with your headaches, insomnia, and shortness of the breath. All symptoms might not be similar for all women but deep breathing is important as it provides the baby with oxygen and to the muscles that are required during this time. The prenatal yoga takes things into stride with the guarantee that things will get sort out eventually and you will find comfort and peace.
- A healthier pregnancy is guaranteed: it is guaranteed that the baby is going to be healthy. Women who take up prenatal yoga are not likely to have the risk of going into early labor or delivering a baby whose birth weight was less.
- Prenatal yoga encourages to be friendly with other pregnant women in the class: the advantage of this yoga is that the class is of pregnant women who are going through some similar changes in their life. It is a place where these women can connect and share their experiences and sharing your journey of pregnancy along with a new friend is certainly more calming to the mind. As that woman will understand all the basic things that you are going through presently.