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Navigating Nighttime Labor Pains: What To Do & When To Go To The Hospital
Discover strategies for managing labor pains at night, gain insights into labor patterns, and understand when it’s time to make your way to the hospital.
What is the Difference Between A Walking Epidural & a Standard Epidural?
Discover the differences between a walking epidural and a standard epidural to determine which one would be a better option for your birth.
What’s the Difference Between a Prenatal Yoga Class and a Yoga Class Modified for Pregnancy?
Learn the differences between prenatal yoga classes and yoga classes modified for pregnancy. Discover which one works for you!
Help To Relieve Pain From Breastfeeding With Postnatal Yoga
Discover how to treat pain from breastfeeding that can be caused by repetitive movements and bad posture. Learn how postnatal yoga can help!
Explanation of Fetal Positions; What Poses Are Beneficial and What Poses Should Be Avoided During Pregnancy
Learn about the different fetal positions and how they impact labor and birth. Discover the best yoga poses to do for optimal fetal positioning.
Everything you want to know about your water breaking!
Learn everything you need to know about your water breaking and what to do if it breaks spontaneously or prematurely.
How Prenatal Yoga Can Help To Relieve Back Pain In Pregnancy
Discover yoga poses to help relieve prenatal back pain and learn how prenatal yoga can help you to have a more comfortable pregnancy.
What Is A Birth Team & How To Choose The Right Team Members
A birth team is a group of selected people that assist and support an expectant parent during labor and delivery as well as sometimes the postpartum period too.
How Prenatal Yoga Can Help You Have An Easier Birth
Navigation Have you ever wondered why some people’s birth is quick and smooth while others have a long and drawn out labor? How easy or difficult a birth is depends upon the baby’s position and the balance of the expectant parent’s bones, muscles and soft tissue and ligaments. When the parent’s body is better balanced, …
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Top 5 Pelvic Floor Podcasts
If you’ve spent anytime following my podcast, social media or attended a prenatal and postnatal yoga class, you already know what a HUGE anatomy geek I am and how any conversation involving the pelvic floor I find deeply fascinating. With that in mind, I figured it was high time I put together a curated list …
Exercising Your Pelvic Floor During Pregnancy The Right Way
Learn why kegels may not be right for you & how to identify your pelvic floor needs. Plus, we spill our methods here at Prenatal Yoga Center in NYC.
4 Ways to Relax Your Pelvic Floor During Birth!
Here are 4 ideas you can use during labor to help combat tightness and tension that can build in the pelvic floor during birth!
Top 10 Pregnancy Podcasts Part 2
Welcome to part two of our most listened to episodes of Yoga | Birth | Babies podcast!
Instead of kegels, do this!
There is more to the pelvic floor than kegels! Learning to release, lengthen and strengthen is key!
Do you need flexibility to give birth?
Recently after class one of my students stayed around to ask a question. They waited until everyone else left and quietly expressed concerns about their flexibility and the ability to birth. I’ve seen their practice for about two months so I understood the limited mobility their hamstrings and hips have and I got where they were coming from. I …
Top 5 Breastfeeding Podcast Episodes
This blog is filled with our top Yoga | Birth | Babies breastfeeding podcast episodes & lactaction resources because August is National Breastfeeding Month! This is a month dedicated to advocacy, protection & education around breastfeeding. This month is kicked off by World Breastfeeding Week (8/1-8/7). World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) aims to inform, anchor, engage …
Fear and Birth
I learned a very important lesson early on in my career as a doula. I attended a birth that certainly did not flow as desired. It felt like all the mother’s hope for how her birth would happen went the complete opposite direction. A year later, she asked me to come over and talk. I …
For my fellow “Older Moms”
I didn’t set out to be an “older mom” but life and career choices rendered that the case. I met my husband a week past my 35th birthday. I found out I was pregnant with my first child one day before my 37th birthday and was 22 weeks pregnant with my second child while belly dancing …