The effects of maternal exercise on fetal heart rate and movement patterns

Early Human Development

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 237-247

  Manders, M A M ^a   Sonder, G J B ^a   Mulder, E J H ^a   Visser, G H A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Fetal body movements; Fetal breathing movements; Fetal heart rate; Maternal exercise

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; BRADYCARDIA; BREATHING MECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS BREATHING; FETUS HEART RATE; FETUS MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN;

ADULT; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FETAL MONITORING; FETAL MOVEMENT; FETUS; HEART RATE, FETAL; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, THIRD; RESPIRATION; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 0031589311     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3782(96)01858-0     Document Type: Article

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