Pre & Postnatal Pilates You Can Do At Home

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A strong pelvic floor and pelvic stability helps mama!

It’s important to strengthen pelvic floor muscles, increase lumbo-pelvic stability, and improve posture while pregnant. Not only will this help protect against back pain from your growing belly, it will help you during childbirth and encourages quicker recovery.

Once your child is born and you are cleared to do gentle, low-impact workouts, you should continue this work to help rebuild the abdominals and pelvic floor muscles (especially if you have diastasis recti or have had a c-section). With the weight of your baby and the forward slouching for nursing and bottle feeding, your posture muscles and upper body need to stay strong to prevent neck, back, and shoulder pain.

Here is a video that you can do at home on a mat (or on a Reformer with the shoulder blocks removed)