Obviously even a low-risk pregnancy can be hard on anyone's body, but that's ridiculous.

The doctor had just finished telling me I was going to have a low-risk pregnancy.

"If an individual has a low-risk pregnancy, then being physically active will have benefits for both mother and baby," says Michelle F.

In such low-risk pregnancies, the college advisory says, "There currently are no data to confirm that exercise during pregnancy has any deleterious effects on the fetus."

Dr. Rosen said the section of the report dealing with low-risk pregnancies was its most controversial part.

For women with low-risk pregnancies, the panel recommended 7 or 8 prenatal visits rather than the usual 13.

Studies show that midwives provide quality and safe care for low-risk pregnancies with extremely successful outcomes.

In our case, my wife's age and health and prenatal diagnostics predicted a low-risk pregnancy.

In that study, 15,151 women with low-risk pregnancies were randomly assigned to one of two groups.

First, she must have an uncomplicated, low-risk pregnancy.