My body is so different since having children…I don’t know where to start…I just want to feel like me again and take back some control of my body
It can be difficult to know where to turn to for honest, reliable and supportive advice to help you with your post-natal recovery.
- Are you fed up with leaking and feeling like your pelvic floor is weak?
- Are you worried about your tummy muscles post baby and want them to feel stronger?
- Are you frustrated with all the various aches and pains that come with looking after babies and children?
- Are you ready to take some time for YOU, to reconnect to your body and feel stronger, better and more able to meet the never-ending physical demands of being a Mum?
Wherever you are on your post-natal journey (whether you are weeks, months or years into it) it is never too late to start your recovery.
Taking time for your self is not a luxury or an indulgence: it is an essential form of self-care.
Why is Pilates such an amazing form of exercise when you’ve had children?
Pilates helps you heal and get stronger from the inside out. It aims to improve your posture, alignment, flexibility and physical strength.
Pilates utilises a mind-body connection, which can improve mental focus and well-being and also help to reduce stress.
Your body goes through a lot as a Mum…
- Your abdominal muscles will have been stretched to allow room to grow and carry your baby.
- Your pelvic floor muscles will have supported the weight of your baby and may have helped to push your baby out (did you know the muscles can stretch to up to 3 times their normal length to allow baby through?).
- Postural changes during pregnancy often mean your bottom muscles need targeted re-strengthening to help re-set your posture and support your back.
- Your back muscles need moving and strengthening to be able to meet the ever changing demands of being a Mum.
Pilates deals effectively with all of this by…
- Safely, effectively and progressively strengthening your abdominal muscles.
- Strengthening your pelvic floor which can help to deal with incontinence and prolapse issues.
- Helping to improve diastasis recti (the gap sometimes left in your tummy muscles post-baby).
- Helping to reduce and prevent back pain by improving your posture, flexibility and strength.
- Strengthening muscles throughout the entire body.