Miladin Radisavljević, Ljiljana Antić, Snežana Milićev

It is well known that pregnancy after the fourth month entails certain changes related to additional burden. This burden (weight gain, protruding belly, reduced movement and similar) also causes changes of conditions for establishing and maintaining the balance of the ventral and dorsal sides of the body. For the purpose of maintaining and securing normal stability and good balance during various movements and positions of the body, it is necessary to engage the deep muscles of the back. Along with the mentioned, the torso flexors should also be strengthened, and stretching exercises for the spinal–pelvic–femoral muscles, the adductor muscles and the hamstrings used to provide pelvis with free balancing. Exercises for strengthening thigh extensors and calf muscles, as well as the plantar and dorsal flexors of the feet enable the expectant mother to maintain good posture and good feet status. Breathing exercises can help to establish and maintain normal lung ventilation which at the same time prevents the obstruction of pulmonary circulation in the lower part of the lungs. Thus, like every natural process, giving birth, as a physiological function of a woman’s organism, should be pain free. Psychoprophylaxis is one of the contemporary attainments of the medical science which tends to achieve the removal of painful components of birth contractions. This method of initiating birth consists of a psychological and somatic preparation of the expectant mother for delivery

Keywords: kinesitherapy, psychophysical preparations, pregnancy, natural childbirth

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