Baby Weight, an innovative prenatal and postpartum fitness plan, helps you control weight gain and maintain muscle tone during pregnancy and get your body back faster after baby comes. Baby Weight is unique to other books on the market today in that it was developed by a licensed Physical Therapist and certified Perinatal Fitness Educator, offering the insight of an experienced healthcare professional aware of the unique needs of the prenatal and postpartum mother. Learn all you need to know about the changes in your body and how to counteract adverse body changes and common aches and pains through specific exercises that isolate the exact muscles weakened during pregnancy and childbirth. Baby Weight features the CoreMama(tm) exercises, which teach you to work the muscles that need it most in a progressive and intense program that caters to all fitness levels. Since the exercises were developed by a Physical Therapist and Perinatal Fitness Educator specializing the treatment of women during and after pregnancy, you can rest assured that the intense exercises will safely challenge you within the limits of your abilities to push to the next level. You will sweat, you will tremble, and you will definitely feel like you've had a work out after doing these exercises! After baby comes, the postnatal program will teach you to use your baby's weight to help you lose your baby weight by incorporating your baby into the exercises, making them more effective and more fun! The handling techniques used to integrate baby into the exercises, developed by a neonatal and pediatric Physical Therapist, help stimulate your baby's motor development. Mom and baby grow strong together!Of course, weight control doesn't depend on exercise alone. Learn to follow a balanced and healthy diet with Baby Weight's practical and easy-to-implement nutritional advice that teaches you to make conscious food choices. If you are looking for a guide to get and stay in shape during and after pregnancy, look no further!

An authoratitive guide to exercise in water for pregnant women, a popular form of pre-natal exercise with many health benefits. Packed with exercise ideas and essential safety considerations for when working with pregnant clients.

Pregnancy Fitness covers all physical and physiological aspects of pregnancy, birth, and recovery. Practical and accessible, it delivers stretching, strengthening, and functional exercises as well as sample workout programs to take you safely and confidently through each phase of pregnancy and postpartum fitness.

An updated third edition of the guide for new mums, fitness leaders and physios on how to regain fitness following the birth of a baby. This Complete Guide includes: - exercises - advice - relevant anatomy and physiology All clearly explained, fully updated and packed with exercises. Includes new guidance and up to date references, and all illustrations replaced with new photographs.

Pregnant or postpartum and wanting to optimize your healing and recovery after baby? Want to return to exercise without pain or leakage? Want to return to sex pain free? This book aims to empower you with healthy ways to return to exercise, sex, and other tasks encountered by new moms. This book is written from a pelvic floor physical therapy standpoint. This book covers diaphragm breathing, pelvic floor exercises, posture and more. This postnatal book is a quick, easy read for my postpartum mamas out there wanting to develop some healthy habits in their recovery after childbirth. You'll find plenty of options and variations to tailor your specific goals. There are practical and easy-to-implement ideas that will empower you in your postpartum body. This book was written to give you insight into what people mean when they say just listen to your body. It's meant to give you a way to listen to that voice and know how to modify or ask for help during the fourth trimester.Your body was meant to do this! The tips provided in this book will allow you to embrace this time after pregnancy and connect with your body in a healthy and inspiring way. Pelvic floor physical therapist, Jen Torborg, PT, DPT shares pregnancy tips based on research and insights from clinical experience. You can apply these easy-to-follow habits to have your best body after childbirth.In this book, you will learn about: 1. Rest and healing to guide you in the early weeks postpartum2. Returning to exercise in an intentional way3. Returning to sex pain free4. Optimizing scar tissue (perineum, vulva and cesarean scars)5. What's important to know about diastasis recti6. Posture considerations for mom7. And other postnatal questions answered about common (happens frequently), but not normal (healthy state of the body) symptoms that you may encounter (leakage, prolapse, pain, etc), discussion on breastfeeding, mental health and loving your body. This book also includes a FREE Your Best Body after Baby checklist so you can apply the healthy habits described in this book and monitor your progress.Are you ready to have your best body after baby?

Having a baby can and should be one of the most joyful experiences of a woman's life. While there are hundreds of books that provide information on how to ensure the development of a healthy baby, few of them dedicate more than a few pages to the nourishment of the mother herself during this physically and emotionally demanding time. It is rarely discussed, but women commonly experience a wide variety of ailments during the postpartum period, from depression to anxiety, backache, and loss of libido. A Natural Guide to Pregnancy and Postpartum Health is the first book by physicians that is devoted entirely to telling women how they can prevent postpartum problems and attain optimum health after the delivery of their babies. Elements of the program, which is meant to be adopted during-or, if possible, before-pregnancy, include diet, nutritional supplementation, exercise, hormone-balancing, the use of medicinal herbs, and conventional medications. Developed by the authors in clinical practice, this program has a proven track record in helping women to avoid and overcome postpartum difficulties.

Provides essential advice for adjusting to the many challenges facing women during the first year after giving birth. • Offers practical tips for finding balance between being fully immersed in the beautiful but demanding path of motherhood and maintaining a sense of self. • Provides helpful herbal tips and recipes and includes gentle yoga exercises. • Addresses a new mother's need to replenish her body, mind, and spirit so that she can nurture her child. • By the author of The Natural Pregnancy Book and Vaccinations: A Thoughtful Parent's Guide. New mothers need care and support to adjust to the myriad challenges facing them after birth: changing body image, lifestyle, work arrangements, and relationships. Midwife, herbalist, and mother of four, Aviva Jill Romm shares her insights into how to make this crucial time a happy one. She provides essential advice for preparing for the postpartum period, coping during the first few days after the birth, establishing a successful breast-feeding relationship, getting enough rest, eating well even with a hectic schedule, and finding time to regain strength and tone with gentle yoga exercises. Woven throughout are helpful herbal tips and recipes to make the first year of motherhood a naturally healthy one. Natural Health after Birth also addresses a new mother's need to replenish her body, mind, and spirit so that she can nurture her child. This book provides support both for women who plan to be home full or part time during the first year and those who must return to their jobs soon after the birth. With humor and compassion, Romm offers mothers practical wisdom for attaining the delicate balance between being fully immersed in the beautiful but demanding path of motherhood and maintaining a sense of self.