Best Exercises For The Third Trimester Of Pregnancy

Regular exercise during pregnancy makes your delivery easier! Exercise improves your health and maintains your weight gain during pregnancy. Exercise and physical activity improve a woman's mental health and help her stay stress-free and positive during pregnancy. It also provides a healthy start for your unborn baby's development. Unfortunately, according to the research, only 40% of women exercise during pregnancy to keep themselves safe and positive. Before starting exercise, ask your doctor.

For your third trimester of pregnancy, keep your bump size, body weight, and some physical changes in mind. Here are some exercises that are good for you during this time.

Exercises You Can Do

Walking

Walking is the best exercise an expecting woman can do during the third trimester of pregnancy. Walking during this period helps to improve the baby's movement and maintain weight gain. If you’ve kept up with the walking habit, don’t stop it unless you feel any discomfort.

Slow Dance

During the third trimester of your pregnancy, dancing or low-impact aerobics is good for you and your unborn baby. Before doing it, ask your doctor and get their approval to do it.

Benefits of dance and aerobics-

• Strengthens hearts and lungs
• Reduces stress
• Relaxs your mind
• Improves depression
• Maintains muscle tone

Yoga and Meditation

Prenatal yoga helps increase flexibility in your body, and meditation is also very helpful to reduce stress during pregnancy. There are many ways to manage your stress like listening to soothing garbh sanskar music and other activities.

Benefits of yoga and meditation-

• Strengthens body muscles
• Enhances the relaxation
• Maintains blood pressure 
• Stimulates blood circulation
• Flexibility

Breathing Exercise

Doing breathing exercise correctly is very important for a pregnant woman. You can do this breathing exercise throughout your pregnancy; the reason is that your body needs a good amount of oxygen for the baby's development. It provides all the nourishment required for the fetus.

Avoid Exercise That Includes

• Jumping
• Skipping
• Bouncing

Benefits of Exercise During Pregnancy-

• Improves blood circulation
• Reduces the risk of gestational diabetes 
• Increases flexibility
• Improves digestion system and reduces constipation
• Improves emotional health
• Improves muscles for labor or delivery
• Improves sleep cycle
• Reduces stress 
• Improves depression and anxiety
• Gives a healthy start to a baby

These are some exercises you can do during the third trimester of your pregnancy to have a stress-free and healthy pregnancy. Exercises done by a mom-to-be will impact the baby’s growth and development. If you're not doing exercises before pregnancy, this is the best time to start and stay healthy.

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