Healthy Bellies - Intervention Program During Pregnancy on Women and Newborn

Inclusion Criteria:

• Do not have any medical or obstetric contraindication for physical exercise

Exclusion Criteria:

• Haemodynamically significant heart disease;
• restrictive lung disease;
• incompetent cervix/cerclage;
• multiple gestation at risk for premature labor;
• persistent second or third trimester bleeding;
• placenta praevia after 26 weeks gestation;
• premature labor during the current pregnancy;
• ruptured membranes;
• pregnancy induced hypertension;
• severe anaemia;
• unevaluated maternal cardiac arrhythmia;
• chronic bronchitis;
• poorly controlled type I diabetes;
• extreme morbid obesity;
• extreme underweight (body mass index <12);
• history of extremely sedentary lifestyle;
• intrauterine growth restriction in current pregnancy;
• poorly controlled hypertension/pre-eclampsia;
• orthopaedic limitations;
• poorly controlled seizure disorder;
• poorly controlled thyroid disease; heavy smoker).