Whether or not you're already close to your mother, being pregnant is likely to affect your relationship with each other. Many women feel naturally closer to their mothers as they go through this significant life event, turning to them for help and reassurance during the course of pregnancy and wanting them to be there in the days and weeks following the birth of the baby.
It's normal for a mother to respond to her daughter being pregnant by being very protective, so expect a few more phone calls than usual. Your mother is bound to offer lots of advice. Whether or not you take it all in, listen-you may just find some of it useful.
Your pregnancy is bound to trigger lots of memories for your mother of her own pregnancies, so expect to hear many stories of when you were a baby.
There are a number of changes in your body during pregnancy that impact how you can exercise and how your body moves:
Effective and safe exercises are the most efficient way of maintaining and improving your posture and minimizing the stress on your body.
Regular exercise (especially weight bearing exercise such as walking, and using weights-see A Safe Workout) generally improves the bone density of your skeleton.
Excerpted from Pregnancy Day by Day.
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