For healthy pregnant women, regular exercise benefits you like: – Keep your mind and body healthy. – Maintain physical fitness. – Reduce low back pain. – Help to reduce your stress and provide better sleep. – Help you gain the right amount of weight during pregnancy. – Help reduce your risk of having a cesarean birth ( also called a c- section). Cesarean birth is surgery in which your baby is born through a cut that your doctor makes in your belly and uterus. – Excessive gestational weight gain – Gestational hypertensive disorders – Lower birth weight