Exercise throughout pregnancy is important for keeping your body strong and healthy. As the hormone relaxin increases in the body, the result is an increase in laxity of your ligaments. Therefore, it is important to know how to modify exercise for these changes to reduce discomfort through your pregnancy. Exercise is also important for recovery […]
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Returning to Exercise and Sport After Giving Birth
Kelly Jameson is a Physiotherapist on Sydney’s Northern Beaches, and has written this informative guest article on how to know when it’s safe to return to exercise or sport after giving birth. Returning to exercise after giving birth is often a priority for women, and here on the Northern Beaches of Sydney that is no […]
Real Talk: Pregnancy
Pregnancy is an absolutely extraordinary thing. It really is a magnificent miracle to grow a new human being and bring them into the world. There is excellent information about pregnancy and birth in the area of nutrition, exercise, and wellbeing, which is really fortunate compared to times gone by. What sometimes slips under the radar […]
Glowing Expectations
What is Glowing Expectations? Glowing Expectations is about pregnancy and new mum care for real women. There are 2 programs on offer: a pregnancy fitness and well-being program for mum to be, and a postnatal program to assist recovery from birth and get mum ready to exercise again. Rachel Livingstone developed these programs from her […]
What You Need to Know About Abdominal Separation
Physiotherapist Kelly Vine shares her wealth of knowledge on Abdominal Separation, how to prevent it and how to reverse the effects. Abdominal Separation. What causes it? How can I help myself? Can I prevent it? How do I get rid of it? These are all common concerns and I hope to be able to answer some […]
Let’s revisit Sex Ed class
Let’s revisit Sex Ed class Remember back in Sex Ed class as a teenager, when you were taught that any form of unprotected sex could result in a pregnancy? Many of us grew up believing that a woman could fall pregnant on any day of her cycle. This fear drove us to seek out birth […]
Say goodbye to pain in the Chinese New Year!
Say goodbye to pain in the Chinese New Year! Tuesday 5th February marks the Chinese New Year, and we enter the year of the pig! As we welcome in Chinese New Year, it is time to reflect on the great history of Chinese Medicine. In the early days of Chinese Medicine, thousands of years ago, […]
Sleep, massage and its effect on pregnancy
Sleep can be difficult during pregnancy. A number of uncomfortable symptoms such as urination frequency, exhaustion, indigestion, discomfort, night-time leg cramps, restless leg syndrome, difficulty breathing (sleep apnoea), anxiousness, depression, back pain, sciatic nerve pain and a moving foetus can keep an expecting mother up all night. However, disruptions to sleep can have negative consequences […]
Take a naturopathic approach to your pre-conception care
Once a couple makes the monumental decision to have a baby they are usually keen to fall pregnant asap. It’s an exciting time! There are, however, many benefits to taking just a little time to look at your health and wellbeing before starting to try and conceive. Working with a naturopath to improve your health […]
Essential oils and pregnancy
Are you interested in how to support yourself naturally during pregnancy, labour and nursing, with essential oils? This blog might give you some inspiration… I have been using essential oils for years, and it has been quite some time now that I have been introducing this amazing practice of self-care to people. I am not […]
The Important of Pre-conception Care
So, you’re thinking about having a baby. Have you thought about your preconceptive health and how this can impact not only your ability to conceive but also the health of your baby? Diet is now recognized as one of the major environmental factors influencing the health of the embryo, fetus and mother. Particular micronutrient deficiencies […]
