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Unsafe pregnancy exercise

Pregnancy changes your body in many ways. Some of these changes can affect the way you exercise. Throughout pregnancy, the hormone progesterone causes many of your ligaments and joints to soften and loosen in preparation for labour. Joint injuries and ligament damage may therefore result from exercise that involves jerking actions and sudden movement, for example tennis, squash and jogging.…

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