Flying with a Baby: 6 Tips for an Easy Trip
If this is your first flying with a newborn baby, it can feel scary! You’re trapped on a plane, surrounded by strangers, and you have your little baby who may or may not be equally as excited as you to be flying. There is this pressure to keep our babies and children silent so that […]
3 Mobility Exercises to Help Baby Engage for Birth
Baby needs to ENGAGE or enter into the pelvis either before or during labor for labor to progress. When baby engages in the pelvis, they can apply more pressure against the cervix and more easily rotate for birth. If baby is not yet engaged before labor, it is okay! Engagement is NOT an indicator of […]
4 Breathing Techniques for Labor Relaxation
Feeling anxious or stressed? Take a deep breath in, pause, then exhale to let go. Did you know that slowing our breathing with deep, slow, and long breaths can help to calm the nervous system? We can use breathing techniques to find pain relief during labor! There are a number of techniques, some more complicated […]
7 Safety Tips for Bed Sharing
7 Safety Tips for Bed Sharing: Sleep is a crucial component of early postpartum (and beyond)! It is a point of stress for many parents in trying to figure out how to support their child’s sleep health and their own, as well! We can’t function as parents if we are not sleeping at night! The […]
Labor Position Breakdown: Lunges to Rotate Baby
There are SO many different labor positions that you can try during your birth! The cool part about labor is that you tend to intuitively move in a way that OPENS your pelvis and helps your baby wiggle and rock through your pelvis WITHOUT even thinking about it! But, it can be helpful to know […]
Labor Position Breakdown: Squats to Help Baby Engage During Birth
There are SO many different labor positions that you can try during your birth! The cool part about labor is that you tend to intuitively move in a way that OPENS your pelvis and helps your baby wiggle and rock through your pelvis WITHOUT even thinking about it! But, it can be helpful to know […]
Prepare for Pushing: 3 Exercises to Make Pushing Easier
You can prepare for pushing with your prenatal workouts. There are several movement patterns that can create more space in the bottom of the pelvis to make it easier for baby to be born! If you incorporate those movement patterns into your prenatal workout routine, it can support your pushing prep! You do not need […]
3 Exercises for an Easier Labor
3 Exercises For An Easier Labor: You do not need to wait til labor to focus on opening the pelvis! We can prepare to open the pelvis during pregnancy with our prenatal workouts! Throughout pregnancy, we can focus on ensuring we have the movement capability to open each pelvic level: the inlet, the midpelvis, and the […]
Prepare for Birth: 3 Exercises to Help Baby Engage for Labor
In this article we will explore 3 exercises to help the baby engage for labor and prepare for birth. You do not need to wait til labor to focus on opening the pelvis!
Pelvic Stability Workout: 3 Exercises to Stay Pain-Free
You do NOT need to be in pain during pregnancy or into the postpartum period. You may have heard that the only way to resolve pelvic girdle pain (pain in the front or the back of the pelvis) is to give birth. But this could NOT be further from the truth. There is a LOT […]
Grow Your Glutes: Our Top 4 Tips
Our top tip to GROW your glutes for better function (aka less pain) and perform is to Find internal rotation with single-leg movements
My Postpartum Return to Fitness: Birth to 2 Months Postpartum
My third baby was born on October 1, 2022. Since her birth, I have been focusing on my own recovery and return to fitness! But my return to fitness has been a slow and gradual process to honor the postpartum healing timeframe.