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Fit & Pregnant,
The Pregnant Woman's Guide to Exercise
by Joan Marie Butler, RNC, CNM 

Learn how to stay fit during your pregnancy. This completely-revised new book is packed with advice from Joan Butler, an experienced nurse-midwife who is a mother of two and an athlete. In addition, dozens of mothers share their stories of exercising during pregnancy. Fit & Pregnant has already help thousands of active women.

** From the January 2007 Midwest Book Review**
"Now in a revised and expanded edition, Fit & Pregnant: The Pregnant Woman's Guide to Exercise presents the medically sound advice of nurse, midwife, athlete, and mother of two Joan Marie Butler for pregnant women of all backgrounds. Though Fit & Pregnant pays especial attention to the concerns of highly athletic women and particularly professional athletes, the needs, concerns, body changes, and exercise guidelines for all pregnant and postpartum women regardless of background are covered. Fit & Pregnant explores the beneficial effects exercise can have on the pregnant body, from types of exercise that can reduce the risk of postpartum urinary incontinence to general health and fitness promotion. Fit & Pregnant also covers which specific exercises are best avoided particularly in the second trimester onward, how to lift weights safely, and how to scale back particularly intense regimens - pregnant women are advised to train not for professional competition, but rather specifically for the "event" of delivering a healthy baby. Also discussed at length are the changes a pregnant woman's body goes through, what to expect and prepare for, and means to maximize health and safety throughout the experience. Enthusiastically recommended for expectant mothers everywhere."

Active women who are pregnant or planning a pregnancy know that staying fit is good for them and their baby. This book will help them understand the tremendous changes that their body is experiencing and how they can continue to safely exercise before, during, and after their pregnancy. They will hear from women like themselves -- how they maintained their fitness during pregnancy and how they stayed fit after the baby.

Activities covered include: stretching, Pilates, Yoga, Aerobics, weight training, running, walking, hiking, swimming, cycling, nordic skiing, and snowshoeing.

In Fit & Pregnant, you will learn how:

• physical activity may affect your ability to get pregnant,
• your body changes over the next nine months,
• your baby is affected by the exercise you do,
• exercise needs to be modified during pregnancy,
• other mothers stayed fit during their pregnancies.

• Sylvia Klein Olkin, MS Positive Pregnancy and Parenting Fitness Newsletter
  Finally there is a terrific book for active women ... who want to keep up their workouts throughout their pregnancies and postpartum.
• Kristen J. Kratzert, MD, F.A.C.O.G.
  Fit & Pregnant provides a compassionate and rational approach to the subject of exercise and pregnancy.

Publisher: Vitesse Press, Montpelier, VT

Publication Date: 2006, 1st edition

Cover Type: paperback

Book Size: 7" x 10"

Pages: 192