Prenatal Workout Day!

Today's task is working out!

I am 18 weeks along and already taking on weight. Sigh. Time to work out!
That's not to say that gaining weight during pregnancy is a bad thing. But, I was doing well at being very gradual until this past weekend, and gaining gradually is the key to a happy, healthy pregnancy.
Gaining weight too quickly during pregnancy can cause problems and issues like back pain, fatigue and shortness of breath, and those dreaded stretch marks that we won't really see until later.
I learned my lesson after my first 2 babies. I now know that I need to make sure to do something physical daily. The challenge is that I am on modified bed rest, so I can't really do anything too challenging. My heart rate goes up very quickly, as it does with most mommies in their 2nd trimester, so we have to be very careful.

Some things that I can do are walking for 15-20 minutes, but I thought I would share some free workout link I found on another blog while I was looking for very safe exercises for me to do while on modified bed rest.

I'm hoping that the light exercise I am doing also brings my blood pressure back down. My blood pressure is the reason that I am on best rest. I had preeclampsia with both my other children and I am showing the same early signs sooner this time. But, exercise is good for regulating blood pressure. I never had time before with my career to workout since I worked 12 hours a day then had to do all the normal mommy stuff and sleep. There wasn't much time left for anything.

Here is the link for the blog with all the links (sorry to have a link to a link- I usually hate that, but I don't want to slight the wonderful blogger who originally took all the time to research and post the links that I looked at)

http://fitformotherhood.com/free-at-home-prenatal-workouts/

Hopefully that helps someone else in their search for safe and free prenatal workouts to do.

Below are some YouTube links I also looked at that look like a good workout. As always, talk to your Doctor first before doing any workout. You need to keep you and your baby safe!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBRK_sUhUz4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pH6IrhTjdR0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yZFFGs8dLg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwPeo49HNVY