Summary Of The Article: Structural Constraint During Pregnancy

The article “Exercise During Pregnancy” by Raul Artal, M.D., James F. Clapp, III, M.D., and Daniel V. Vigil, M.D. relates to what I’ve learned about motor development because of it’s connection to Newell’s Model of Constraints. Newell’s Model has three different constraints: Individual, Structural, and Functional, which can impact a person’s abilities due to changing interactions in motor development that occur throughout their lifetime (Haywood, K.M. & Getchell, N.). Pregnancy is a huge Structural Constraint to a woman's body; the last few months can impact on a woman’s natural gait. A huge Environmental Constraint during pregnancy would be having more sensitivity to air pressure and low and high extreme altitudes (Artal, R., Clapp, J. F. & Vigil, D. V.).
Before she was pregnant, my mom regularly exercised a few times a week, but, early in her pregnancy she stopped working out as advised by my grandmother. This, along with her new unhealthy eating resulted in her gaining a total of 62 lbs during her pregnancy. As per body continued to be under the growing Structural Constraint of pregnancy she got to the point to being sedentary was her new norm. Her body was unused to the inactivity, and because of that did not burn the additional calories she was intaking from eating unhealthily. My mother did not continue with her regular exercise during pregnancy, and it had a negative effect on her .She learned from this experience, and when she had two subsequent pregnancies with my younger brothers gained less weight with them combined than her first pregnancy with me by continuing her physical activity during