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Prenatal Yoga A Boon To Would Be Mothers
All women with no exception whatsoever are anxious about childbirth right from the time they conceive. Sometimes this is because of the horror stories they have heard from friends or seen on TV. However, it need not be that way. Yoga for would-be-mothers reduces the incidence of pain and discomfort to a very large extent.
How to Get the Best of Both Worlds
Yoga works on some specific principles, while doctors and medicine work on another. Both however, have it at their heart to provide you with a pain-free pregnancy and delivery. Medicines usually cut down the characteristic pains with the help of extra vitamins (calcium especially) and fetus-friendly pain killers. Yoga on the other hand will anesthetize through hundreds-of-year-old tried and tested techniques and principles on which yoga is still functioning today.
The good news is that one need not exist without the other. One can have the intervention of both the doctor (for closer re-assurance) and the yoga instructor for the most pain-killing efficient postures and exercises at the time of delivery and before that as well. The medical benefits being already known, the following would throw a light on the benefits of prenatal yoga:
1. You can start with prenatal yoga today even if you do not have a yoga studio anywhere close by, with the help of an excellent video or DVD. Start today as every moment is precious.
2. Feel free to use whatever props keep you comfortable and capable of doing the prescribed activities. Prenatal yoga movements will become easier with each passing day.
3. Take great care that you do not overstretch in your over-enthusiasm to do better, lest you harm yourself
4. All the prenatal yoga exercises can be done with around-the-house props such as beanbags, cushions, chairs, blankets, pillows, and so on. Do exactly as the prenatal yoga pose says you should. If you find that it is too uncomfortable, immediately inform your instructor and doctor.
5. In case you are among those women who have developed terrible back pain during pregnancy, you may ask the yoga instructor to include in the list for prenatal yoga a few back-strengthening exercises as well.
6. If you are practicing aqua yoga, check that the water should be at least waist deep and pre-heated. Ideally all the practice should be done in swimming pools.
7. Keep the doctor involved in the whole prenatal yoga routine, lest anything would trigger the premature arrival of the baby.
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