Warning Signs to Stop Exercising and Call Your Doctor

If you experience any of the following symptoms stop exercising and call you doctor right away.
  • Bleeding from your vagina
  • Difficult or labored breathing before you exercise
  • Dizziness
  • Headache
  • Chest pains
  • Muscle weakness
  • Calf pain or swelling
  • Preterm labor 
  • Decreased movement of the fetus
  • Leakage of fluid from your vagina


Source: American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Exercise during pregnancy and the postpartum period. Obstetrics & Gynecology, volume 99, number 1, January 2002, pages 171-173.


  
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