So long, saltines and applesauce — modern moms-to-be are turning to performance products to boost energy during pregnancy and labor like athletes.
“It makes total sense,” Lauren Puretz, an OB-GYN and ultrarunner in Colorado Springs, Colo., told The Post. Whether logging miles or carrying a child, the feats take fuel — and sometimes sports nutrition products are all that go down.
Just ask pro runner Emma Bates, who alleges her former sponsor, the energy gel brand UCAN, dropped her after she got pregnant last year. Joke’s on them: Products like UCAN’s were no less handy, Bates found, during her first trimester than her last marathon.
“Once nausea…
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