Gymnastics for pregnant women: benefit or harm?
As it appeared, future mums intensively going in for sports more than seven hours a week at earlier stages of pregnancy (till 18 weeks) run 3,5 times higher risk of miscarriage, than women who did not go in for sports at all.
To tell the truth, at later stages (after 18 weeks) miscarriage for this reason, according to doctors, is practically excluded.
Future mums must not be engaged in any occupations which are accompanied by shaking of a body, vibration, weight-lifting, risk of falling or blows. These include mountain climbing, equestrian sport, diving, all kinds of wrestling, team sports, mountain skiing.