There are plenty of good reasons for a woman to take up kegel exercises, but even more so during pregnancy! Your PC Muscles are actually an important part of the child birthing process and strengthening them can help out a lot. Strong PC Muscles will help ease the pain of childbirth and will also make the act of pushing easier. The PC Muscles tend to become weaker during pregnancy and can lead to bladder problems (frequent urination, etc.) and kegel exercises can almost totally offset this.
Additionally, after the child is born kegels will actually help the vaginal healing process along. A great advantage to doing kegels while pregnant is that many other forms of exercises become impractical once you are so far along. You can do kegels anywhere and it takes a much smaller amount of physical exertion.
Even though kegels can be extremely beneficial to you during and after pregnancy, it is important that you take it easy the first month or so after birth. After all, that region of your body just went through tremendous strain! This does not mean you should stop exercises completely, just tone down the intensity long enough for your body to recuperate from the stress it has just recently experienced. This is nothing serious to worry about but it is something to consider. Worst case scenario if you overdo it is you will become sore. Not a life threatening issue by any means.
Perhaps the greatest benefit kegels can bestow open you during pregnancy is preparing you for the pushing. Pushing is painful and having healthy pelvic muscles will make the whole ordeal go a lot smoother. Strong, toned muscles can also reduce the amount of trauma those muscles may otherwise experience. These are good enough reasons in and of themselves to practice kegel exercises during and after pregnancy, not to mention the better sex! The ability to do kegels anywhere you are no matter how far along you are is an extreme convenience as well.
At your book club meeting, when you are driving, even on an airplane. There really isn’t anywhere you can not do kegels and no one can even tell that you are doing them! Just make sure that you continue to breath normally when you are performing these exercises. There is no reason to strain the rest of your body and become short of breath. The only area of the body you need to target is your PC Muscles, putting strain on any other area of the body does not have any benefit whatsoever.
Kegels can be done from a totally relaxed position and some people even combine the exercises with yoga or meditation. Yoga can have its own benefits for pregnant women but that is another topic unto itself. You can make use of Kegels all the way up to the emergency room if you choose to do so.
However, It has been recommended that pregnant women reduce the amount of kegels they perform when they are approaching their due date. The reasoning behind this is that you do not want to go into labor with sore PC muscles caused by an intense kegel workout. This will not effect the baby in anyway, it will simply make the process of giving birth more tiring than it already is.
After all, you need these muscles to push and you do not want to tire them out right before the moment you really need them! Many people do not even practice kegels to the intensity level stated above but it is always better to be safe than sorry.
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