Pregnancy tips Giving Birth After Running a Marathon

I usually focus my blog on pregnancy over 40, but I was shocked when I heard about the 27 year old woman who ran a marathon, then gave birth to her full term baby. Of course, some exercise in pregnancy is good, but you would never find me running a marathon when pregnant. Read more:

medicalnewstoday.com

From the article:

There is little if any research on running during pregnancy, perhaps because, as Dr Rod Jaques, who advised British Triathlon Team at the British Olympic Medical Centre for 17 years until he stepped down in 2007, said in an article published in Runner's World in 2002, scientists would be hard pressed to find women willing to subject themselves to such experiments while pregnant.

Jaques, advises pregnant women to keep their heart rate at or below 140 bpm while running and to take plenty of fluids.

Other experts suggest avoid running in the heat, and never run to the point of exhaustion.

Another point to bear in mind is that pregnant women are at higher risk of injury because they have higher levels of relaxin, a hormone that relaxes joints and ligaments, so they should ease gently into a run and stretch properly afterwards.