It’s not every day that a full-term pregnant woman runs a marathon—and delivers just hours after. But Amber Miller also doesn’t seem like your ordinary mom. At almost 39 weeks pregnant, she participated in a Chicago marathon and ended up running and walking the 26.2-mile course in six hours, 25 minutes and 50 seconds. She crossed the finished line around 3 p.m., and ended up delivering a healthy, seven-pound baby girl by 10:30 p.m. the same day.
Sunday’s marathon was in fact Miller’s eight marathon and her third while pregnant She received medical clearance to participate in the marathon from her doctor, though she signed up for it before knowing that she was pregnant. Even still, she found enough energy to complete what she had set out to do—and she now faces judgment from those who question her decision to take on an endurance challenge while pregnant.
Pregnant women usually don’t get enough exercise, and those who do usually don’t push themselves beyond a certain point. But expecting moms should exercise since there are many benefits that can come from low impact activities like walking, swimming and doing prenatal yoga. Running a marathon? Probably not.
What are your thoughts on this? Do you think what the marathon mom did was risky?
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All's well that ends well. I admire the courage and strenght to go ahead and run. We really are tougher than we look, why in my grandmother's generation they practically stopped from harvesting the corn for an afternoon break to have the baby and then they were back at it the next morning. I think there would have been a huge outcry though had there been any complications with the run or the baby ..
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