Your Health After Birth

by Sadgrove, Judy

• ISBN13: 9780737016086
• ISBN10: 0737016086
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-09-01
• Publisher: Grand Central Pub

Summary

This book explains factors that affect your health after pregnancy and birth, and gives step-by-step advice for getting back in shape. Topics include diet and nutrition, getting enough sleep, body shaping, flattening the tummy, special medical problems, and emotional health.

Table of Contents

Introduction	5	(5)
Total Fitness
After pregnancy	10	(2)
Types of exercise	12	(2)
Aerobic choices	14	(2)
Toning your body	16	(2)
How to tone	18	(2)
Flexibility	20	(2)
Breasts and exercise	22	(2)
Sleep and fitness	24	(2)
How to get more sleep	26	(2)
Involving your baby	28	(2)
Clothing for exercise	30	(2)
Extra equipment	32	(2)
Diet
Nutrition in pregnancy	34	(2)
Aims of good nutrition	36	(2)
Breast-feeding and diet	38	(2)
Eating for fitness	40	(2)
Maintaining energy	42	(2)
Losing excess weight	44	(2)
Overcoming anemia	46	(2)
Foods for strong bones	48	(2)
Total Body Shaping
Your exercise plan	50	(2)
Warm up: cool down	52	(2)
Lower body stretches	54	(2)
After working out	56	(2)
A fat-burning session	58	(2)
Toning the arms	60	(2)
Shoulders and chest	62	(2)
Upper body exercises	64	(2)
Thighs and bottom	66	(2)
The inner and outer leg	68	(2)
Standing exercises	70	(2)
Varicose veins	72	(2)
Flattening That Tummy
Postnatal changes	74	(2)
Tummy toning exercises	76	(2)
Progressing the curl-up	78	(2)
Working the obliques	80	(2)
More abdominal work	82	(2)
Back, neck, and shoulders	84	(2)
Back strengthening	86	(2)
Back stretches	88	(2)
Internal Problems
The pelvic floor	90	(2)
Pelvic floor exercises	92	(2)
Fitness for sex	94	(2)
Special problems	96	(2)
Cesarean problems	98	(2)
Episiotomy	100	(2)
Emotional Fitness
Moods after pregnancy	102	(2)
Adapting your lifestyle	104	(2)
How exercise lifts mood	106	(2)
Postnatal depression	108	(2)
Relaxation techniques	110	(2)
Index and Acknowledgments	112