Pelvic Pain or Discomfort? Here’s 5 possible solutions
During pregnancy or as a recovering postpartum, sometimes you may experience pelvic pain or discomfort. This pain may be the result of too much movement happening in the pelvic joint thanks to the hormone relaxin. Too much movement happening in a joint is known as instability.
so, what are some possible solutions to approaching pelvic pain during pregnancy or the postpartum?
C-Section Pain Relief 3 Options
These will be great options to discuss with your provider or anesthesiologist to help you manage pain after your c-section!
Core Muscles: How Can We Activate them?
By: Kelly Peterson PT, DPT & Gina Conley, MS, CD(DONA), MamasteFit It’s not about what CORE exercises you do but HOW you do them that matters. You need PROXIMAL stability for DISTAL mobility when it comes to CORE STABILITY. This means that your CORE muscles should activate from the point of attachment or close to your […]
3 Birth Mapping: Plan for Birth in an Informed Way
Birth mapping Birth mapping is a new way to approach how we plan for birth. It was developed by Catherine Bell and is a document that is created over several weeks throughout pregnancy to help families have informed decision making during their births. Birth is unpredictable. We cannot concretely predict or plan how birth will […]
Homebirth vs Hospital Birth: What is The Best Choice?
Homebirth vs Hospital Birth You can give birth in multiple locations, such as a hospital, homebirth, freestanding birth center, or in a place maybe you didn’t expect such as your car in route to the hospital. It is important to note that no location is necessarily better or worse than the other!! Both, Hospital and […]
Benefits of Weightlifting for the Pre/Postnatal Periods
What are the benefits of weightlifting during pregnancy and postpartum period?
When we lift weights or increase the stress on our body with an external load, the result is our muscles, tissues, and bones get denser and more resilient to stress and demand.
Why does this matter? When our body is more resilient and stronger, and we are better capable of meeting expected and unexpected demands placed on our bodies. This can enhance our healing postpartum, improve our ability to adapt to increased demands and reduce symptoms of pressure management issues.
Prenatal Fitness: The Mindset Aspect to Prep for Birth
When we think Prenatal Fitness, we typically think of the physical aspect of the workout: the squats, the running, the heart pumping activities. And those are all incredibly important aspects of fitness, especially for pregnancy. We want to enhance the physiological adaptations of pregnancy to improve birth outcomes, such as increasing blood volume an additional […]
3 Labor Hormones
There are a few hormones that influence labor: oxytocin, prostaglandins, beta-endorphins, and catecholamines. Each of these plays an important role in how labor will progress, but too much or too little of some could inhibit labor progress or cause a stall. Let’s explore each of these hormones, and discuss options to enhance or minimize the presence of each.
Core Training During Pregnancy: Beyond the Sit Up
During pregnancy (and most aspects of life) we need a strong, but not rigid, abdominal wall to help maintain pressure within our abdominal cavity, and to assist in stabilizing our spine. The abdominals, particularly the transverse abdominis, or corset abs, and internal obliques, are a component of our deep core system. This deep core system […]
3 Causes of Labor Stalls: The 3Ps
Labor Stalls If labor begins to stall or seems to be pausing temporarily (or it may feel like forever), there are a few things we should consider. 1. Is this actually a stall? For a labor arrest or stall to be “for real,” then dilation, effacement, AND station will NOT be changing for a period […]
Labor with an IV Pole
If you need to labor with an IV pole for whatever reason, it can be helpful to know how to labor with an IV pole to still facilitate that freedom of movement that helps with labor comfort. Why would you need an IV pole during labor? Maybe your labor is being augmented with Pitocin; this […]
Opening the Top of the Pelvis
The top of the pelvis is known as the inlet or pelvic brim. It is the first structure of the pelvis that baby needs to engage, or enter, to begin their descent and rotation through the pelvis. Each level of the pelvis opens with certain biomechanical movement patterns, and these movement patterns tend to be […]