FREE 5-Day Pelvic Floor Prep for Birth Challenge
Join us for our FREE five-day challenge to prepare your pelvic floor for birth! Over the five days you will learn about your pelvic floor, ways to approach mobility, pelvic floor relaxation exercises, and a tip to navigate birth! 40-Week Prenatal Strength Program: Start in Your Third Trimester! The 40-Week Prenatal Strength Program syncs to […]
Prepare for Birth: 3rd Trimester Focused Fitness Programs
The MamasteFit Prenatal Fitness Training Programs are designed to keep you strong throughout your pregnancy and comfortable! Our prenatal fitness programs sync to your week of pregnancy or trimester, so you can start our programs in your third trimester! 40-Week Prenatal Strength Program 40-Week Prenatal Mini Program On Demand Prenatal Workouts On Demand Prenatal Yoga […]
6 Prenatal Exercises to Prepare Baby to Rotate During Birth
Your baby rotates through the midpelvis after they have engaged into the pelvis! Certain laboring positions will create more space to speed up this rotation! Read this blog to learn two labor positions that open the midpelvis plus 6 prenatal exercises to do to prepare for birth!
4 Exercises to Support Your Baby’s Position for Birth!
There is a big emphasis on forcing baby into the perfect position during pregnancy. We get asked frequently: What exercises can I do to get my baby to engage? What exercises can I do to get my baby to be in the perfect position? It’s important to understand that there really aren’t movements that are […]
Is LOA the BEST Position for Your Baby?? 3 Positions Your Baby NEEDS to be in During Birth!
Is LOA, or baby towards the front and left, the best position for your baby for birth? The answer is: it depends! You may be bombarded with the pressure to get your baby in the “perfect position” for birth, without realizing that there are multiple positions that your baby needs to rotate through as they […]
Is Your Pelvis Too Small for Vaginal Birth? 3 Reasons Your Small Pelvic Assessment was Wrong!
Is Your Pelvis Too Small for Vaginal Birth? Discover the 3 key reasons why your small pelvic assessment might have been inaccurate.
4 Exercises for Tailbone Pain Relief!
Tailbone pain?? It can be a literal pain in the butt! The tailbone, or the coccyx, is attached to the sacrum via the sacrococcygeal joint. This means the tailbone can MOVE around depending on the pull from the surroudning musculature, which would be the pelvic floor! The pelvic floor can have uneven tension through it […]
My Top 3 Ways to Prep my Pelvic Floor for Birth!
As I near the middle to the end of my third trimester, I am shifting my focus during my workouts to prepare for birth. My workouts have lowered in intensity and are slowly lowering in overall volume as I near 37+ weeks. One aspect of my birth preparation is my physical preparation. My workouts are […]
Twists During Pregnancy: Are twists safe or dangerous??
You may have been told that twisting throughout pregnancy is dangerous, and to avoid twists once you find out you are pregnant. However, this couldn’t be further from the truth! We need to twist for optimal spine function and to support our core and pelvic health. Now, what we may want to avoid is deep […]
Right Upper Quadrant Pain… But No Blood Pressure Issues? Check the Thoracic Spine!
If you are experiencing pain in the upper right quadrant, or right below the bottom of the rib cage towards the front, it could be a sign of hypertension or a preeclamptic issue during pregnancy. Pre-eclampsia is a serious prenatal complication that is the leading cause of maternal death, so symptoms associated with pre-eclampsia should […]
Laboring on the Toilet: 3 Tips to Speed Up Dilation
The toilet is commonly referred to as the “dilation station” in the labor world! The reason being is that when we are more relaxed, our cervix can more easily dilate as baby presses down on the cervix with contractions.
Our Top Postpartum Care Items!
There tends to be a lot of focus on preparing for birth that we may forget that there is a postpartum period too! While Amazon prime is usually most frequented at 2 am the early days postpartum to buy that thing that promises relief, it still takes some to arrive! Having a few helpful items […]