Background: Birth weight plays an important role in infant mortality and morbidity, childhood development, and adult health. To date there are contradictory results regarding the role of physical ...

April 6, 2010 — Exercise during pregnancy is linked to a modest reduction in offspring birth weight, according to the results of a community-based, randomized controlled trial reported online March 24 ...

WASHINGTON -- Pregnancy and birth make big changes in a woman's life, and doctors want women to consider adding one more. They are encouraging women to exercise, figuring soon-to-be or new mothers may ...

Giving birth is an experience unlike any other. While a woman’s life changes forever after she gives birth, that does not mean new mothers cannot return to some of their old habits after their ...

In the past, pre-natal exercise advice was simple: don’t do it. And exercising after giving birth — who had time? Today it’s relatively common to see moms jogging in their third trimester and mommy ...