Mysuru: “Being active during pregnancy is going to help both the baby and the mother, specially by avoiding several health complications, ” said Dr Madhura Phatak, Consultant – Obstetrics and Gynecology, Columbia Asia Hospital Mysuru
Parent Craft, an exclusive program hosted by Columbia Asia Hospital, is an educative session which covers all the aspects of maternity-about pre-natal and post-natal care in a unique interactive program, which involves doctors’ interaction, team exercise and live healthy food counters and relaxing foot massage for the mothers.
Speaking during Parent craft, on Wednesday, August 29, Dr Madhura Phatak said “Bed rest or inactiveness during pregnancy may worsen the muscles and cause more problem to the baby. Apart from this, a risk of diabetes and hypertension also shoots up. The baby may overgrow making Caesarean inevitable,” Dr Pathak said suggesting that an additional 500 calories must be consumed during pregnancy.
During the interaction program, the common question pregnant women and their family members posed were what they should eat, what type of exercise they should do during their pregnancy period and also about pregnancy weight gain.
Responding to this, Dr Pathak said that the average weight gain during pregnancy should be between 8kg and 12kg. If they put on more weight there are chances of having back pain and may also end up having diabetes, hypertension and baby putting more weight due to which the chances of caesarean delivery are more. Dr Pathak suggested that women who are overweight must plan their pregnancy only after reaching right body weight.
More than 30 pregnant women along with their husband and family members who had come from across the district took part in the educative awareness program.
