Prenatal Fitness by the Numbers
Updated: May 21, 2021
The evidence is growing that prenatal fitness is an important part of a healthy pregnancy, right along with eating right, sleeping well, and avoiding alcohol and smoking.
Expect Fitness has compiled and curated the most significant stats on prenatal fitness:
150-Minimum minutes of moderate-intensity aerobic exercise pregnant women should get every week
76%-Reduction in gestational diabetes risk for expectant mothers who exercise over 4 hours a week in the year before pregnancy
67%-Reduction in prenatal depressive symptoms
54%-Reduction in preeclampsia risk, a leading cause of maternal mortality, with first trimester exercise
39%- Reduction in the odds of high birth weight babies
20%-Reduction in risk of C-section
