Michelle420
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Some of the advocates have said it strengthens muscles for labor and delivery.
I guess it just depends on who you talk to.
I would think you need spotters close by, the danger being dropping weights.
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It has nothing to do with MUSCLES.
But everything with vessels in the placenta and between the placenta and uterus.
Additional abdominal pressure and additional pressure in that circulation system may cause some of them disrupting and causing abraptio placentae - maybe not catastrophic but enough to cause relative hypoxia to the baby and her brain. Vessels in the placenta are fragile and the more close to the delivery date the riskier it gets. That is the reason a pregnant woman should not lift ANY heavy objects - even something she usually does and is able to - not even the other child.
Why would any SANE mother to be would risk hypoxia to the brain( and therefore risking the life-long impairment of the child) of her supposedly wanted baby just before delivery is beyond me![]()
Well if you read her facebook page, it looks like a lot of women do it and support her, just as many as those who don't support it.
Mainly, I guess I assumed if it was dangerous some doctor's would come out and say so.
https://www.facebook.com/leaann.ellison