Preparing To Push – Learning How To Push During Birth
“Hold your breath and I will count to 10 – keep pushing until I stop counting”. “Push like you are having a bowel movement”! What? So you want me to hold my breath and poo my baby out? My idea of...
View ArticlePostpartum Training…What’s Too Much?
If you are anything like most women, once you had your baby, you took one look down and freaked out! Thoughts of “What happened to my body? Why do I still look 4 months pregnant? I mean I trained most...
View ArticleDo You Suffer From Mum Bum?
During pregnancy your centre of gravity shifts and as a result, many women try to counterbalance that shift by tucking their tailbone. Overusing the posterior pelvic floor muscles and under-using the...
View ArticleHow to Do a Proper Kegel
So you had a baby and everyone told you to do the famous kegel exercises. You nod and say “yes I’ve heard of that”, then go home with your newborn baby and try to pull up your pelvic floor muscles,...
View ArticleWhat Your Mother Never Told You
Speaking at a new moms group it is a constant surprises how secretive women can be when it comes to talking about all the wonderful changes Mother Nature creates in our body postpartum. It really...
View ArticlePREP – Preventive and Restorative Exercise Program for a Better Birth and...
Did you know that training for birth can help facilitate your labour and delivery and set you up for a smoother, faster recovery? By choosing the right preventive and restorative exercises, you can...
View ArticleThe Role of the Pelvic Floor
It is hard to know that your pelvic floor is there since you can’t see what it is doing. It’s not like someone will come up to you and say, “Hey your pubococcygeous is really cut!” Nevertheless, this...
View ArticleReconnecting Postpartum
What you thought your body would look and feel like post-pregnancy and the reality of it are two completely different things. Words such as “disconnected,” “lost” and “unmotivated” will sum up those...
View ArticlePilates for Your Pelvic Floor: A Quick Must-do Exercise Routine for New Moms
Before any mom hits the gym or gets antsy about losing baby weight, a crucial first step is strengthening what pregnancy has weakened. First and foremost would be your pelvic floor. Whether you had a...
View ArticleSelecting Safe and Effective Exercises Postpartum
Exercising after giving birth is necessary to rehabilitate the postnatal body and strengthen key areas that support the demands of motherhood: The upper back must be strengthened to support...
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