The effects on labor pain and delivery outcomes

Prenatal Yoga Outcomes:

In the article, it discusses prenatal yoga outcomes,  Yoga during pregnancy: The effects on labor pain and delivery outcomes 60 women participated in a random yoga trial in Iran. The women in the yoga group were required to do a 60-minute yoga program 3 days a week from week 26-37 of their pregnancy. The women who were in the yoga group. The women who were in the yoga group reported less pain upon reaching 3 centimeters in diameter than the women in the control group. They also experienced shorter duration of the 2nd and 3rd stages of labor than they women in the control group.  The yoga group experienced a reduction in cesarean section births at 13.3%, where as the control group experienced 50% C-section rate. The participants in the yoga group underwent fewer planned inductions (29.3%) than the women in the control group (56.7%)

“The results of some studies have shown that yoga practices involving yoga body movements of asana, breathing awareness and use of chanting “om” can be beneficial to spine flexibility as well as circulation of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) around the brain and spinal cord. Increasing CSF circulation results in an increase the availability of CSF endorphins and serotonin which has a great impact on raising the threshold of the mind-body relationship to pain”