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If you were on bed rest or high risk...maybe.
As a PP said...pregnancy is not an illness. I shovel snow, mow the lawn, rake the leaves etc and sometimes I do all of that with the other kids on my hip. (JK on the last part, LOL)
You will be fine. Only issue is that you might tire out easier.
"Shaken baby syndrome" is a severe and tragic event in which someone shakes an infant or a young child, causing the head to arc forward and back in a whiplash motion. This sudden, drastic movement destroys nerve connections and ruptures blood vessels in the brain, leaving the child with damage ranging from developmental delays to blindness to coma to death.
Because your child is still in the womb, this kind of neck action is impossible. Your baby is curled in a little ball (fetal position) and even if he/she stretches a bit, there won't be the kind of rapid and extreme movement that causes damage.
My concern with performing CPR while pregnant is fatigue on your part or, in the later stages of pregnancy, stimulating contractions. Even then, I doubt that doing CPR would induce early labor. If it did, there would be a whole lot of late-term moms bending over Annie mannequins.
You should be fine.
LOL, no your baby is well protected. Before I became an L&D nurse I was a cardiac nurse and ran to the code with the code cart and started chest compressions while 8 mionths pregnant. Again another victim of malpractice wariness. Women have been lead to believe they need to be on bedrest at home with their feet up for even the lowest risk pregnancy so "just in case" the healthcare team is safe from liability.
Dana07
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Well, I worked a code a couple of weeks ago and i was 18 or 19 weeks along and i did about three rounds of chest compressions. is this safe? did i hurt my baby? i did not start bleeding or anything but i just wonder if i gave it like shaking baby syndrome or something. any clues to this?