Core Strength for Pregnancy: How to Safely Exercise Your Core While Expecting
Should you still train your core during pregnancy?? Absolutely! But, not every core exercise is made for pregnancy! In this blog, we will be breaking down why you should still keep your core strong throughout, what you should consider when training your core, and what type of exercises could you do to keep your core […]
Magic Moves of Labor: Resolve Issues with Your Labor with These Positions!
There are a few “magic moves” of labor that seem to solve every problem! When someone’s labor is stalling or there seems to be an issue, if you throw them in one of these positions–boom, baby is suddenly ready to be born. But, how do they work, and will they work every single time?? Let’s […]
Preparing for Birth: Prenatal Exercises to Help Baby Get in Position
If you want to help your baby get into their best position for birth, you need to focus on ensuring their path to rotation is clear! There is a lot of pressure to FORCE your baby into the “best” position, usually OA or LOA (back of the head towards the front or slightly to the […]
Strengthen Your Pushes: 3 Unique Tips for More Effective Pushing!
How do you even push a baby out?! This is a common part of birth that many of us have some anxiety about! It’s the final part of our labor–we are finally going to meet our baby, so how do we even go about pushing?? In this blog, we are going to break down what […]
The MamasteFit Birth Prep Circuit: Release Tension and Open the Pelvis for Birth!
As you are preparing for birth, you want to not only incorporate strengthening and aerobic exercises to help with your stamina for birth, but also release areas of tension to make it easier for your create space in your pelvis for birth.
The Best Prenatal Exercises for Optimal Baby Positioning
What is the best position for your baby for birth?? It depends! There is no one best position for your baby to be in during birth, as your baby will move through several positions as they navigate through the pelvis.
Creating Room for Baby: Techniques to Help Baby Engage in the Pelvic Inlet
The first part of your baby’s path through the pelvis is to engage, or enter, the pelvic inlet. The pelvis has three levels: the inlet, the midpelvis, and the outlet. Your baby will navigate each level of the pelvis in their journey through for birth! However, there is no one movement that opens the entire […]
Prepare Your Body for Labor: 2nd Trimester Birth Prep Workout
As you prepare for birth, it is important to know that there are common areas of tension that most of us experience during pregnancy. These common areas of tension, or restriction, can impact how well we can create space in our pelvis. If we have difficultly creating more space in our pelvis, it could negatively […]
Top Tip to Protect Your Pelvic Floor with Lifting
If you want to continue to lift throughout your pregnancy, you may be wondering HOW you protect your pelvic floor while lifting. The pelvic floor sits at the bottom of our core canister and plays a big role in pressure management, or how much or little pressure is within our abdominal cavity. Intraabdominal pressure is […]
The Ultimate Guide to Prenatal Core Workouts: Modifications and Benefits
Should you avoid all core exercises throughout your pregnancy?? Absolutely NOT! You need a strong core to not only stay comfortable throughout your pregnancy but also to support your baby’s position for birth! HOWEVER, there are some things we do want to consider when approaching core work throughout pregnancy. During pregnancy, the abdominal wall is […]
Best SI Joint Pain Relief Exercises: 10-Minute Pelvic Stability Workout
Pelvic pain is common BUT not a mandatory part of pregnancy. You may have been told that the only solution to pelvic pain is to give birth… and then you’re several months postpartum and you STILL have pelvic pain. What gives?!
Quick and Effective: 10-Minute Foam Roller Workout for Your Pelvic Floor
The pelvic floor plays a large role in our daily function during both pregnancy and the postpartum–plus is important during birth!