Prenatal & postpartum Pilates

Pilates is an proven method for helping your body manage and recover from the challenges of your pregnancy and delivery.

 

Doctors and pediatricians strongly recommend doing Pilates during pregnancy because it strengthens the most important muscles women will use during their pregnancy and labor.

 

Nearly every pregnant woman experiences lower back pain. Hormonal changes during pregnancy encourage suppleness in the joints and muscles. Prenatal Pilates exercises builds abdominal, back and pelvic muscles to provide more support.  With proper strengthening of the core muscles, through following the right Pilates program, pregnancy, delivery, and postpartum recovery can be made easier, without compromising safety.

As the baby grows, the woman’s center of gravity shifts, affecting coordination and balance. Your Pilates regime will accommodate and respond to these changes, keeping your core strong to best support your back, hips and belly. In a way matched to your particular needs.

  

Pilates emphasizes the tightening of the pelvic floor muscles by increasing the blood flow to the uterus and therefore tightening the muscle. Pilates exercise will stabilize the core, and tones your abdominals back to their original form or better!

 

The physical demands of lifting and carrying a newborn require upper-body strength and stability. Postural alignment alters throughout gestation, and many muscles become imbalanced. This can put mechanical stress on the low back, pelvis, hips and feet.

 

Fit From the Core will provide a Prenatal and Postpartum Pilates program to help you restore your postural alignment, and core strength that will ease these demands!