Laboring Down: 2 Labor Positions While You Wait to Push
Explore two effective labor positions to ease discomfort and prepare for pushing during childbirth. Discover how these positions can help make labor smoother.
Prenatal Lifting: Trimester-by-Trimester Workout Guide
Discover the safe way to do prenatal lifting throughout your pregnancy with our trimester-by-trimester guide. Stay fit and healthy for both you and your baby.
Diastasis Recti Healing: 5 Exercises to Try
Diastasis Recti, DRA, or abdominal separation, tends to be a big concern for folks throughout their pregnancy and after birth. In this article we will share few exercises that can help with the diastasis recti healing process.
My Top 6 Prenatal Exercises: Prepare for Your Birth + Stay Pain-Free
Discover the best prenatal exercises for a smoother pregnancy and childbirth experience. Our top 6 prenatal exercises help you prepare for childbirth and stay pain-free.
Postpartum: How to Return to Lifting After Birth
If you’ve been an active person and you wonder how to return to lifting after birth, this article is for you. Find out the best ways to stay active postpartum.
Water Breaking: Understanding the Rupture of Membranes
In the movies, your water breaking or the rupture of membranes, is always so dramatic and followed by a flurry of panic and rushing to the hospital. Birth is not usually like this (usually), and your water will not always break so dramatically either! There are a number of ways to understand HOW your water […]
Top 4 VBAC Prep Tips
As you prepare for a vaginal birth after a cesarean (VBAC), you may have a long list of all the things to do to prepare OR you may have no idea where to even begin. In our professional experience, having a c-section is not your fault, and I can honestly say that for all my […]
3 Postpartum Core Stabilization Exercises + Advancements for a Stronger Core
When we near the 3+ week postpartum time frame, we may want to start to introduce some core stabilization work to support rebuilding our core after birth! As we approach core stabilization training, we want to focus on the torso maintaining its position as our arms and legs move. We can start integrating this with […]
3 Early C-Section Recovery Tips
A cesarean birth may have not been your plan. If you did not have a scheduled cesarean, likely, this is an unexpected postpartum experience for you. We usually plan our birth for a vaginal birth: you probably even have all the postpartum care items prepped for recovering from a vaginal birth. But, what happens if […]
3 Movements to Fix Baby’s Position for Labor Progress
Your baby’s position plays a huge role in your labor progress! Both you and your baby work together during your birth. You move to create space in the pelvis for your baby to navigate more easily. Baby wiggles and adjusts their head position to navigate the pelvis. There is a lot going on during your […]
6 Prenatal Exercises to Open the Pelvis for Birth
We can use our prenatal workouts to prepare for birth! Prenatal fitness can support: Staying strong throughout your pregnancy so you can meet daily demands, such as picking up your kids and all the things Keeping your comfortable and pain-free so you can move with ease! Pregnancy does NOT mean you need to be in […]
Top 5 Prenatal and Postnatal Core Exercises
You may have heard to avoid all core exercises during pregnancy and given no clear guidance on how to reincorporate core work postpartum. First, you absolutely can do core work during pregnancy and early postpartum. But, we may need to reframe what we consider core exercises! Core work is more than sit ups and crunches! […]