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Women who continue exercising regularly through the end of their pregnancies (three times a week for at least 20 minutes at a moderately hard to hard level of exertion) demonstrated the following reduced risks during the birth process… * 35% decrease in the need for pain relief * 75% decrease in the incidence of maternal exhaustion * 50% decrease in the need to induce or augment labor with pitocin * 50% decrease in the need to intervene because of abnormalities in the fetal heart rate * 55% decrease in the need for episiotomy * 75% decrease in the need for operative intervention (forceps or cesarean section)
Posted on: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 00:01:12 +0000

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