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Mountaineering is Perfect for Expectant Mothers

WEDNESDAY, 1 AUGUST 2007

Are you an expectant mom who wants to break free from the usual jitters and pre-conceiving feeling of pregnancy? Then give mountaineering a shot!

Believe it or not, but mountaineering could indeed make your pregnancy stage a little worry-free. This is according to Natalya Shulyakovskaya as she did experience doing such thing and she was able to prove that it’s indeed true.

Shulyakovskaya relates her own story of her journey to trails of Tenaya Lake with her husband and how she was able to give her pregnancy stage a blast. All through her pregnancy, Shulyakovskaya did a lot of exercising and muscle-flexing. She climbed up the hills and Stairmaster, swam the ocean, walked and did yoga, and etc. She did these things to feel lean, focused, and energetic for her pregnancy.

However, this rocking mommy still finds mountaineering as the perfect way to prep yourself up for pregnancy. “This is nothing, absolutely nothing, to prepare for pregnancy better than mountaineering,” says Shulyakovskaya.

She pointed out some of the reasons why she finds mountaineering a fun and effective way to revive pregnanct women. First, there’s the morning sickness. Morning and altitude sickness feel similar and rise from a similar cause. Your body yearns for more oxygen and more red blood cells to carry it at high elevations. It reacts by slowing you down. After a period of discomfort, most people acclimate. In pregnancy, the volume of blood that runs through your body goes up dramatically to accommodate a growing child. Your hormones reshape the body. According to Shulyakovskaya, after you dealt with the pangs of altitude sickness and nausea, you are already set for your first trimester.

Furthermore, Shulyakovskaya added the power of constant movement where the mountains will test the limits of your body and your mind, and teach you to just keep on making one slow step after another until your second wind kicks in and you reach the summit.

“The day after her birth, I woke up, full of adrenaline after the labor and aching for movement,” says Shulyakovskaya. “The 20 pounds I gained during my pregnancy were gone. I marched around the labor and maternity ward while Alexandra slept. And the stride I felt was quick and springy.”

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