Effects of prenatal yoga on birth outcomes in nulliparous women: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
Feifei Chen, Hongjun Yu, Shuhua Peng · 2025
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Feifei Chen, Hongjun Yu, and Shuhua Peng pooled trials of prenatal yoga for first time mothers in a 2025 review. Yoga in pregnancy blends moderate aerobic activity with mindfulness, breathing work, and pelvic floor training. The team searched many databases for randomized trials comparing yoga plus usual care with usual care alone. Outcomes included cesarean rates, assisted delivery, tearing, early birth, and labor length.
Fourteen trials with thousands of women were included, and bias was checked with standard handbook methods. The pooled results, reported in the full text, weigh whether yoga shifts those outcomes. The authors frame the review as a guide for a low cost, drug free practice. Whether the benefits hold across settings is the question the synthesis was built to answer.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Feifei Chen, Hongjun Yu, Shuhua Peng |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 32 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |