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One of the complaints that are often experienced by pregnant women is sleep disorders. Sleep disorders that occur in pregnant women are a reduction in sleep duration. According to a 2012 survey by the National Sleep Foundation, about 78% of pregnant women in America have trouble sleeping. While in Indonesia 97% of pregnant women experience sleep disorders in the third trimester. The purpose of this study is to determine the evaluation of the implementation of prenatal yoga with the quality of sleep of III trimester pregnant women at the Olive Sahabat Bunda Clinic. This research method is a quantitative research type of descriptive analytical research design used is one group pre test post test design. The number of samples used was 30 respondents. The variables of the study were prenatal yoga and sleep quality. The measuring instrument or instrument in this study was the Pittsburg Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) questionnaire. The results of this study showed that before prenatal yoga, 23 respondents (23.3%) had poor sleep quality at night and only 7 respondents (76.7%) had good sleep quality.

Background Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) is the main indicator for assessing the success of maternal health programs because of its sensitivity to improving health services, both in terms of accessibility and quality. Acceleration in reducing MMR can be achieved by improving health services for pregnant women in prenatal yoga classes which have the benefit of improving maternal health, both physical, mental and emotional. The aim of this research is to determine the relationship between maternal age, maternal employment and husband's support on maternal participation in prenatal yoga classes. Methode This research method is quantitative research with a cross sectional approach. The subjects were 42 primigravida. The sampling used was consecutive sampling. Data were collected using a questionnaire list, then the data was processed using the Chi Square test. Result The results of the bivariate test using the chi square test showed that there was a significant relationship between husband's support (p value = 0.009), there was no significant relationship between mother's age (p value = 0.559) and mother's employment (p value = 0.525) with the participation of primigravida pregnant women in taking prenatal yoga classes. Conclussion Husband's support is associated with mother's participation in prenatal yoga classes.    

Pregnancy is a physiological process that occurs due to the process of growth and development of a fetus. During the development of pregnancy there will be physical and mental changes. One of the physical changes that occur during pregnancy is pregnant women experience complaints of back pain, especially in III trimester. Efforts to reduce back pain in third trimester pregnant women are using prenatal yoga. This case study purpose to determine the effect of applying prenatal yoga on back pain in III trimester pregnant women. The method in this study is a case study on clients of III trimester pregnant women. Patients were measured with OPQRSUV and used NRS instrument to determine pain scale before and after prenatal yoga intervention. The intervention was carried out for 3 days with 15-30 minutes every session. The results of this case study showed that prenatal yoga intervention in pregnant women can reduce the level of back pain from scale 4 to scale 2 within 3 days intervention. The implication of this case study is prenatal yoga which consists of 6 effective movements to help reduce the scale of pain in III trimester pregnant women because it can relax the body of pregnant women.