How to use yoga ball during pregnancy

Nowadays, many families are very concerned about the issue of offspring, so women receive a lot of preferential treatment during pregnancy. The mother-in-law will do all the housework, hoping that the daughter-in-law can rest assured and take care of the baby without doing anything. In fact, this is a very wrong practice. If pregnant women lack exercise, it will be detrimental to childbirth, so they should exercise appropriately. So how do pregnant women use yoga balls?

1. Benefits of practicing yoga

Pregnant women practicing yoga can enhance physical strength and muscle tension, enhance the body's sense of balance, and improve the flexibility and agility of the entire muscle tissue. At the same time, it stimulates the glands that control hormone secretion, increases blood circulation, accelerates blood circulation, and can also control breathing well. Practicing yoga can also help massage the internal organs. In addition, yoga exercises that target the abdomen can help reshape your body after childbirth. Yoga is beneficial for

Improve sleep, eliminate insomnia, and make people healthy and comfortable. Develop a positive and healthy attitude towards life.

But it's important to note that yoga is not the only way to make pregnancy and childbirth safer and more successful. Yoga simply helps pregnant women to exercise properly throughout the pregnancy process. "Childbirth" consumes a lot of physical energy, so most pregnant women will feel fear and anxiety before delivery, which is a normal phenomenon. Practicing yoga can make this process easier and help pregnant women maintain a peaceful mind before delivery.

During pregnancy, although expectant mothers must be very careful to protect the fetus, they should not be too cautious and stop exercising. Proper exercise during pregnancy not only helps to enhance the physical fitness of expectant mothers and control body lines, but also helps them give birth to babies smoothly.

Pregnant women will be in a state of mental stress due to the constant changes in their bodies during pregnancy, especially the back has to bear additional pressure. Yoga exercises can balance out your growing belly and maintain good posture. Stretching and strengthening the body can help open the pelvis before labor. Adjustments to the pelvic floor can help better control labor, reduce complications and speed up postpartum recovery.

Through yoga stretching movements, such as kneeling cat breathing and side stretches, not only can tense and painful muscles be relieved, but yoga breathing can also help stretch the ribs and strengthen the elasticity of the chest and back muscles, allowing mothers to stabilize their emotions, relax their muscles and regulate blood pressure.

In addition to back pain, many mothers often feel shortness of breath and constipation after pregnancy, which can be improved through prenatal yoga.

Gentle prenatal yoga can increase cardiopulmonary function, promote blood circulation and metabolism, and reduce fatigue caused by increased oxygen demand during pregnancy and shortness of breath caused by breathing difficulties.

Many mothers suffer from esophageal reflux or constipation because their uterus presses on the gastrointestinal tract as their baby grows in their belly. Many yoga poses for prenatal women can promote gastrointestinal motility, help with bowel movements and gas discharge, and relieve bloating and constipation problems.

Pregnant women yoga can also control weight and improve edema

Pregnancy causes some mothers to have swollen hands and feet, which look like big balloons from a distance. Deformation of appearance is often difficult for beauty-conscious mothers to accept. This is because after a woman becomes pregnant, the progesterone in her body begins to increase to help the embryo implant firmly. But progesterone also increases the concentration of sodium in the urine, thus causing edema. Pregnant women yoga can enhance blood circulation and metabolism in the body, reduce edema during pregnancy, and give mothers a good look.

2. Parent-child yoga starts during pregnancy

All pregnant mothers have similar troubles. Usually their bodies will undergo the following changes, such as their breasts becoming very plump, fat starting to accumulate at the waistline, hips and thighs, and they often feel soreness in the waist and legs, but they have to continue to indulge their appetite in order to supplement nutrition. Pregnant mothers’ bodies change dramatically, but they are extremely careful with the fetus and dare not “act rashly.” In fact, there is no need to interrupt or reduce normal exercise during pregnancy. Scientifically arranged exercises are beneficial to both the mother and the fetus. Yoga with soothing movements is a good choice. Talking to the baby in the womb during exercise is also considered the earliest form of mother-child yoga.

Benefits for expectant mothers

Appropriate exercise can keep expectant mothers in a good mental state and prevent them from gaining too much weight. It can also promote blood circulation, enhance myocardial contractility, increase oxygen intake, and promote metabolism. By enhancing the function of the neuroendocrine system, it can increase the secretion of digestive juices, which is beneficial to the digestion, absorption and utilization of food. It can also enhance muscle coordination and help pregnant mothers adapt to the shift of the body's center of gravity and weight gain.

You can experience that exercise can relieve tension, make the waist and pelvic joints softer, and the muscles more elastic. In particular, consciously exercising the muscles of the abdomen, waist, back and pelvis can avoid low back and leg pain caused by weight gain and change in center of gravity during pregnancy, and help reduce labor pains and promote smooth natural delivery.

The above is an introduction on how pregnant women use yoga balls. In fact, pregnant women can do some simple exercises during pregnancy. Yoga is a better choice. This is also very beneficial for future delivery and can also promote the development of the baby. So don’t always sleep during pregnancy, and exercise appropriately.