Mom-Baby Fitness: Modeling Healthy Lifestyle Habits

I let my daughter bring her stroller and baby doll to class, so she can do what the mommies are doing. Her active approach is catching on, too – other toddlers are starting to join in! It is never too early to start modeling healthy habits!

Healthy Moms Having Healthy Babies – the Challenge in 2011

Outlining DTP’s goals in 2011: Helping women be healthy during the childbearing period, and adding to the effort to assure Safe Motherhood around the globe.

Birth and Human Survival

Ever wonder if humanity will become extinct sooner rather than later? Animal Planet program on sea turtles…hatchlings crawl across the sand to the ocean and the commentator remarks that only one in a hundred will survive to adulthood. Those who escape the pelican beaks or salt water crocodiles waiting for them on the sand may [...]

Active Pregnancy – the rationale

Moving into Motherhood It’s time to hit the main theme again:  Aerobically fit women are at reduced risk for things that go wrong in pregnancy, improve their tolerance for labor and birth, and recover more rapidly in the postpartum period. The arrival of the holidays provides a good reason to bring this up, yet again! [...]

Fetal Programming

Basic information on fetal programming, including behavior and environmental factors that influence fetal development.

Pregnancy Pathway, Pregnancy – Behavior, part 2: Nutrition

Let us discuss food!      Yeah, food! Question: How many extra calories do you need in each trimester to offset the metabolic cost of pregnancy? Answer: First trimester – 0; Second trimester – 300; Third trimester – 500 (source: Institute of Medicine). Keep in mind that you may also need calories for any fitness [...]

Pregnancy Pathway, Pregnancy – Behavior, part 1: Exercise continued!

Now that you know WHY exercise is a healthy behavior, this entry explains WHAT is safe and effective exercise to do.

Pregnancy Pathway, Pregnancy – Behavior, part 1: Exercise

Summary of the reasons why exercise is critical to good pregnancy outcome.

American College of Nurse Midwives updates

Two updates on the ACNM website of interest: • the value of exercise in pregnancy • health care reform Check out the ACNM site!!

Rant: Health Care Reform/Pregnancy

Ideas about how health care reform could improve maternal/infant health.

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