Breech Positioning: 4 Ways to Turn Baby Head Down!
If baby is in a breech position, where the feet or butt present first, it could alter your birth plan fairly significantly depending on what your provider is willing to support! Explore fours to help your breech baby turn head down!
2 Ways to Prepare for your VBAC
Preparing for a vaginal birth after a cesarean (VBAC) can feel daunting! The to-do list can get lengthy to ensure you have your desired birth experience. Let’s explore some manageable ways to approach preparation for a VBAC!
Prevent Labor Stalls: Understand The Passage Stall
Labor stalls can be caused due to a number of factors such as the passenger, the passage, and the power. Understanding which of these factors is causing a labor stall can help us resolve the issue to see labor progress again! Read this blog to learn more about the passage stall.
Adeline’s Birth Story: The Birth of MamasteFit
Adeline’s Birth Story I’d like to start this story by sharing that Adeline’s birth story is not what I would consider a positive birth story. I still carry some resentment towards my provider and sadness about my birth experience to this day. But I have accepted that I can have conflicting emotions about the same […]
2 Labor Hormones to Enhance Your Labor Progress
There are hormones that influence our bodily functions, and its not different when it comes to labor! Oxytocin and prostaglandins work together to start the labor process. We can explore different ways to enhance the release of each hormone to support our labor.
4 Strategies to Avoid Abdominal Coning with Overhead Pressing Movements
Abdominal coning tends to occur as a result of certain types of movements, such as the overhead press. There is a lot we can do to minimize or completely alleviate coning with overhead pressing movements, and it starts with focusing on positioning!
6 Exercises to Prepare for Birth: Prepare to Open the Pelvis During Labor
Prepare for Birth: Exercises and Mobility Prepare For Birth: We can move to create more space in the pelvic levels during labor. Each level opens more based on the movement pattern. It’s also important to note that not every level opens simultaneously, so there is no one movement that opens the entire pelvis. Grab the […]
4 Inversions to Adjust Baby’s Position & Release Uterine Ligaments
Inversions could help adjust your baby’s position both during pregnancy and labor! There are several types of inversions you can do based on if you are pregnant, in labor, have an epidrual, and even your strength levels!
Pregnancy After Loss: 5 Tips for Navigating PAL
It can be challenging to enjoy pregnancy after loss. There may be a feeling of disconnection or anxiety the entire 9 months! In this blog, I share my own story of pregnancy after loss and five tips on how you can navigate it.
4 Pushing Strategies to Protect Your Pelvic Floor During Birth
You may be anxious about pushing during subsequent labor if you currently have a pelvic organ prolapse! Read this blog to learn some techniques to help reduce the risk of worsening a pelvic organ prolapse with the second stage of labor!
Abdominal Coning: When to be Concerned & When is it Normal!
What is Coning?? Abdominal coning is when the center of the abdomen pushes out further than the rest of the abdominal wall due to increased pressure. This tends to create a cone or tent-like appearance down the center of the abdomen. Depending on your anatomy, it may be wider around the belly button or wider […]
What Is Fetal Station? The 3 Pelvic Levels Explained
Fetal station helps us understand how high or low baby is in the pelvis! Depending on what station baby is will determine what type of movement patterns we should do to help create more space to facilitate labor progress!