Pregnant women should a visit to their health care provider to begin prenatal care. Prenatal care help keep you and your baby healthy. Prenatal care help prevent complications and inform women about important steps they can take to protect their infant and ensure a healthy pregnancy.

Prenatal therapy help prepare the bodies for childbirth by strengthening the muscles they will use for delivery. You can start exercising at any time during your pregnancy. The aim is to improve the physical and psychological well-being of an expected mother for labor and preventing pregnancy-induced pathologies by various physical means.

1. Keep your mind and body healthy. Physical activity can help you feel good and give you extra energy. It also makes your heart, lungs and blood vessels strong and helps you stay fit.
2. It helps to prevent and relieve common discomforts such as tailbone, back and hip pain, or carpal tunnel syndrome
3. Maintain muscle tone, which can deteriorate quickly with limited activity
4. Prevent or treat postpartum conditions such as pelvic organ prolapse, incontinence, and diastasis recti, when the abdominal muscles don’t reconnect like they’re supposed to after pregnancy
5. Improve mental health. Studies shown that when women experience stress, anxiety and depression, it affects them as well as the developing baby.
6. Help reduce your risk of having a cesarean birth (also called c-section).

If you’re an active person and you exercised before you got pregnant, it’s safe to continue your activities during pregnancy. But if you didn’t exercise before you were pregnant, it’s better for you to start now.

1. Walking. Taking a brisk walk is a great workout that doesn’t strain your joints and muscles.
2. Swimming and water workouts. It’s also easy on your joints and muscles.
3. Riding a stationary bike. This is safer than riding a regular bicycle during pregnancy.
4. Low-impact aerobics classes. Low-impact aerobics don’t put as much strain on your body that high-impact aerobics do.

Strength training. Strength training can help you build muscle and make your bones strong.