Swimming provides a long list of benefits during pregnancy, says Kecia Gaither, MD, MPH, FACOG, the director of perinatal services/maternal-fetal medicine at NYC Health and Hospitals/Lincoln in the Bronx, New York. Those include:
- Maintaining body temperature and preventing overheating
- Strengthening the core, potentially preventing diastasis recti
- Boosting circulation
- Increasing flexibility
- Improving cardiovascular health
- Nausea relief
- Decrease in fatigue and sleep problems
- Low risk for falls
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