"I had awesome energy through my pregnancy," recounts Sarah Elizabeth Choiselat of Vancouver, British Columbia. "And I felt beautiful in my pregnant body." Sound too good to be true? It doesn't have to be. Exercise offers many wonderful benefits for you during your pregnancy.

"I cannot say enough of how valuable regular exercise was to me," says Robin Shain of Little Rock, AR. "I gained a reasonable amount of weight during pregnancy and felt good about myself."

Shain also noticed that exercising throughout her pregnancy helped her avoid many of the typical pregnancy discomforts, including swollen ankles and fatigue. "But I gained the greatest benefits with the stretching exercises which helped me remains limber, comfortable and ready for labor when it began."

* Excerpted from "Exercising for Two", by Carrie Myers Smith, Every Baby magazine, Issue One.

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Also, you can read more about exercising during pregnancy at: http://www.4women.gov/Pregnancy/first.cfm#17