Postnatal physiotherapy is important to follow a series of exercises to strengthen the muscles which have been stretched by pregnancy and birth. This will help to prevent backache, promote correct posture and help you regain your figure more quickly. These benefits include assistance with weight loss, increased aerobic fitness, social interaction and psychological wellbeing. Improve your mood, relieve stress and help prevent postpartum depression.

Prenatal care is the care given during the pregnancy.

Benefits of prenatal exercises:
1) Reduce incontinence — Incontinence is an annoying side effect of pregnancy. Pregnant women sometimes have trouble controlling the bladder due to changes to the pelvic floor muscles. It helps to strengthen pelvic floor muscles and ease the incontinence.

2) Ease low back pain — Physiotherapists help pregnant patients experience less back pain by helping them engage in stabilization exercises focused on the muscles around the spine.

3) Make delivery and labor easy — Physiotherapists usually have pregnant patients do strength and flexibility exercises, increasing chances of easier child birth as most women become less active during pregnancy due to fatigue or back pain and it is important to remain physically active for easy delivery so physiotherapy helps in this.

4) Helps to reduce constipation.

5) Helps to control blood sugar level.

6) Boost up the mood and increases stamina by stimulating positive hormones.

Postnatal care, given after the delivery:
Postnatal exercises, types of postnatal exercises
1) Brisk walking
2) Swimming
3) Aqua aerobics
4) Yoga
5) Pilates
6) Low impact aerobic workouts.
7) Light weight training.
8) Cycling.

When should I start postnatal exercises?
Wait until after your postnatal check, at between six weeks and eight weeks, before taking up exercise, other than Kegels and walking.

Postnatal physiotherapy is important to follow a series of exercises to strengthen the muscles which have been stretched by pregnancy and birth. This will help to prevent backache, promote correct posture and help you regain your figure more quickly.

These benefits include assistance with weight loss, increased aerobic fitness, social interaction and psychological wellbeing, improve your mood, relieve stress and help prevent postpartum depression.