This was a post I was planning on writing shortly after my last pregnancy as it’s something I frequently get asked about as a personal trainer, but I never quite got around to it and now here I am after having daughter number two! As someone who has been spending a lot of time in …
So now we’re officially at a week past being full term which means cerclage success! Hurrah for that, but now that this pregnancy is at the business end, I’m oh-so-ready for this bebe to come and meet us. And so the wait begins… The waiting game (and wanting to speed it up!) I know baby …
Pregnancy Diary: Week 38 – The waiting game (& how to get baby to come sooner?) Read More »
Here we are at Week 36 – almost there as baby is considered full term at 37 weeks! It’s been a long and bumpy road, which got bumpier this week after the cerclage removal. Honestly. It’s like the universe went, ‘Oh, so you’re a pregnancy/postnatal yoga teacher and personal trainer? Let’s throw everything we can …
Pregnancy Diary: Week 36 – Cerclage removal & birth anxiety Read More »
Like the rest of this pregnancy, week 32 has been a decent rollercoaster ride; a milestone mark for high risk pregnancies, a second gestational diabetes test, a husband with the shingles, a chickenpox scare and the flu. Seriously. Argh. I’m now out the other end into week 33 but I’ve had my patience (and immunity) …
Pregnancy Diary: Week 32 – Gestational diabetes freakout & a sick household Read More »
When they say that no two pregnancies are the same they’re not kidding! My first pregnancy was pretty much a breeze. As a personal trainer and regular exerciser I continued to stay active and work right up until the week before having the baby. At the beginning of this second pregnancy I had ridiculous nausea, …
Pregnancy Diary: Week 30 – Third trimester, cerclages & enforced bed rest Read More »
We’re half way there! That’s definitely a cause to celebrate – as is the subsiding of nausea and fatigue – but now that bump is growing bigger the aches and pains are starting to settle in. Relaxin is an incredible hormone. We all have it to some degree, however, during pregnancy a woman’s production ramps …
Pregnancy Diary: Week 20 – Dealing with aches & pains Read More »
Did you, or are you exercising during pregnancy? An article I recently read raised some valid points about something that has been particularly concerning to me lately – there are so many personal trainers and instructors in the fitness industry who claim to know how to train pregnant women (and postnatal women) without adequate knowledge. …
Pregnancy & postnatal exercise: Is the fitness industry failing us? Read More »
My confession (+ workout inspiration and bump shot!): So tomorrow I’m 18 weeks pregnant and although I’m a personal trainer I’ve only used my gym membership once in about the last three months. Fatigue, working, toddler wrangling and nausea just made it the too hard basket (because in the first trimester I got ‘morning’ sickness …
The main reason I ended up working in the health and fitness industry in the first place was because of my Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS). It’s thought that as many as 1 in 10 women suffer from PCOS, and symptoms can include one or more from a range of not-so-nice things to experience such as …
Now that Miss E’s first birthday is just around the corner, it seems like a good time to reflect on how we’ve managed to make it through our first year. There were so many things from our previous life that the husband and I naively thought wouldn’t change after the baby arrived. How wrong we …
As a personal trainer, the more clients I trained, the more I realised that focusing on just exercise and nutrition alone isn’t enough to achieve sustainable health and wellness in modern society – not just for my clients, but for myself as well. Yoga fills that gap, providing flexibility training, deep breathing development, stress relief, …
Diary of a yoga teacher in training: Pregnancy yoga Read More »
Throughout my pregnancy, my visions of breastfeeding my little girl involved Miss E being cradled comfortably in my arms just like the mothers and babies in the pro-breastfeeding posters and it would all be blissfully easy. The most natural thing in the world they reckon. As an aside, in these visions I would also look …