Exercises
These are the exercises I have been doing to prepare for natural birth but every pregnant woman can benefit from them. They open the pelvis, keep everything limber, strengthen the pelvic floor and just plain, make you feel better.
Every time I start to exercise Colby becomes my personal trainer!
You should do at least 20 cat stretches 2-3 times a day and they are especially effective at night to help relax right before going to sleep.
Tailor sitting as often as possible can help the baby get into the easiest birthing position where the spine faces your belly button. This position also helps stretch the muscles around your pelvis.
Pretty much all that applies to tailor sitting
applies to squatting with the addition that squatting is a position you could actually labor/birth in. You can do this one with a partner if your achilles tendons aren't very flexible.
The last one is Kegels... and I can't post a picture of that. Look them up.
2 comments:
Hey Amanda...I didn't know you were a blogger! Colby is so stinkin' cute...those pictures of him doing the exercises...adorable!
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A good post, I am now considering getting a personal trainer.
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