Essay On Exercise During Pregnancy

Term Project Part 3

Does exercise during pregnancy have beneficial effects for both Mother and child?

Tara A. Hotchkiss

University of Kansas

Tara Hotchkiss

Dr. Williams

Child Growth and Development

29 March, 2014

Does exercise during pregnancy have beneficial effects for both Mother and child?

1) Topic of the paper and a summary of the evaluation:

-The question and topic of my term project was: Should women could exercise while pregnant? If so, do the results of exercise benefit or hurt the baby? Based on the popular article, it was a positive thing to exercise during pregnancy. This popular article didn’t describe how much or how little exercise a woman should do in a certain amount of time, it only said that working-out benefited the mother’s health and the baby’s future; physically as well as mentally. I also found 3 different scientific articles that described experiments and research. These specific articles had varied results under a plethora of circumstances and/or limitations. Some results were found to be beneficial while others were negative, and even more surprising some results were even found to have a neutral or unchanging effect! My understanding of both articles was the fact that, exercise is good for both the mother and child, only if it is done under a careful and watchful eye of a doctor who knows the mother and her limitations, personally. My full conclusion of both of these articles, is that exercise is only positive and beneficial when the mother can physically make all of her goals without pushing herself and the child too far to a point of unhealthy and dangerous circumstances.

2) Summary of the popular article

-The popular article says that if a woman works-out during pregnancy (spe...

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... Reynolds, Gretchen. "Mother’s Exercise May Boost Baby’s Brain." Well Mothers Exercise May Boost Babys Brain Comments. The New York Times, 20 Nov. 2013. Web. 31 Mar. 2014.

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