Metabolism in Pregnancy
According to the experimental model, women with a higher content of muscles in their body, during pregnancy gain less weight in comparison with the rest of women. Besides that, these women have better content of nutrients, vitamins stored and better feeding habits so they prove to develop better immunity and overall environment for baby’s development while in utero. In order to understand why the content of muscles is so important during this magical time in the mother’s and baby’s life, we have to understand more facts about metabolism.
What is happening to muscles during pregnancy? If women can continue with their normal life habits, the content of muscles will not change, but in the majority of cases, the doctor will recommend slower life rhythm at least in the first three months of pregnancy, and that will mean easier exercises, walks. Unfortunately, the majority of women will experience some kind of problems during this first month- the presence of bleeding, hematoma, cysts and even sicknesses will affect in such a way that women will need or just want to slow down. As we all know, muscles need regular exercise in order to maintain their fitness.
Sleeping more and resting overall will be much better for the overall health of pregnant women and their babies so muscles will lose some of their fitness and help women to maintain health, provide babies better nutrients. Most of these women notice a decrease of their muscle’s tonality but no change in their weight and no presence of any inflammation, so overall immunity stays stable and strong. Their usual feeding habits included oats, almonds, fruits and vegetables and hence, the best type of nutrients to maintain all requirements. The rest of the women often entered the circles of eating too sweet and too salty food, and as a result, didn’t provide the right kind of nutrients which was clearly affecting immunity. Still, babies managed to be born healthy. After two years of observation, these babies proved to have more allergies, bronchitis and similar craving as their mothers did while they were pregnant.
The experiment shows that the most severe consequences on baby’s development had extreme dieting, especially diets restricting carbs. These popular diets were often the choice of women in order to prevent them from gaining extra weight but the results were devastating. Premature baby’s birth, the negative effect of development, especially of neural tube and brain.
After all, no matter the size of a body, what is more, important is the fitness of activity before pregnancy, as well as adapted activities during pregnancy and a healthy diet which will satisfy all women’s and baby’s needs and bring the best in both during this magical time. More about how to satisfy your cravings with simple solutions, read in the next blog.
