The effect of exercise on some aspect of prenatal outcomes

Background: Many studies continued to show effect of Exercise during pregnancy is beneficial for mother and fetus health that promote prenatal outcome. This review attempt to demonstrate exercise beneficial in pregnancy from other view.Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of exercise during pregnancy and the postpartum period on improving quality of pregnancy.Materials and Methods: This study reviewed 30 articles from 2010 to 2018 with search in reliability web site as PubMed, Web of science, Science direct, Google Scholar, Up to date and Scopus. Medline and Embase. The Key words which used in research including healthy pregnancy, prenatal and postnatal care with using exercise and vaginal delivery. Studies didn’t have this words in title excluded from review.Results: These articles recommend that all pregnant women without contraindications engage in ≥30 minutes of moderate exercise on a daily basis. Moderate exercise usually increased perceived physical and mental energy and likelihood of normal delivery and usually decreased perceived physical and mental fatigue. Sufficient exercise means they achieved at least 150 min of exercise per week (analogically 20-30 min per day on most or all days of the week) that it reported higher quality of life during each trimester of pregnancy and in the postpartum follow-up. in particular researcher pointed that if exercise takes place during the second and third trimesters reduce the risk of cesarean delivery, decreased durations of labor (the second stage) that in multiparous women is more than primeparuse. Exercise improve physical fitness of postpartum women. It can be use full for reducing postpartum depressive symptoms and increases the likelihood that mild-to-moderate depression will resolve. It can reduce their stress, fatigue and improve sleep quality in postpartum. In addition, neonatal health indicators specifically increase cognition and intelligence of neonate are better in these mothers.Conclusions: Moderate exercise during pregnancy is effective for improving feelings of energy and decreased fatigue.it may be associated with good pregnancy outcomes. Therefore pregnant woman should be advised to exercise during pregnancy and postpartum time under the consult of health care provider

کلیدواژه ها:

Healthy pregnancy ، exercise and pregnancy ، Maternal health ، postpartum and exercise