Post Pregnancy
After the birth, new challenges emerge, and this section of our website is specially designed to help you get back into shape, overcome and find help for any discomforts or physical problems, and enjoy spending time with your baby or babies. We will continue to add more tips, tools and toning ideas here, so please visit again soon.
Don't neglect your Pelvic Floor Muscl...
Written by: Freda
Freda (not her real name), would like to share her story, her comments and feelings, to let you know how important pelvic floor muscle exercises are, and to encourage you to take note now, before it is too late and problems start. (It is never too late to actually get help, but it is easier to stop a problem from happening).
Freda has 3 children, and had her first baby when she was 22 years old. She was 26 when she had her se...
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Postnatal Exercises
Written by: The Pregnancy Center
Working with your fitness instructor, physiotherapist, midwife or at home by yourself, this series of Post Natal Exercises will build up your core foundations, step by step.
Progress from one part of the program to the next as you are ready.
The age ranges serve as a guide only.
When you start the program, build up from the beginning, and work through at your own pace, as your body builds its core and inner strength.
Getting sta...
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Nursing and Maternity Sports Bras
Written by: The Pregnancy Center
With more to come on this topic, finding a supportive bra suitable for breastfeeding isn't always easy. Now there is a new bra meeting this need, and we've been able to put it to the introductory level test. One of our active Mums has been testing out the Hotmilk Activate Sports Bra, in her "early" level return to fitness post baby. While she's started back at her gym, she's not yet ready to do bouncy or hig...
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Traveling With Kids Through Australia...
Written by: Sean Morris
Family vacations can be--alternately--fun, educational, exhausting, and stressful. With all the planning that goes into taking a trip, kids can become worn out by the schedules and long hours in a vehicle, and parents usually find that trying to keep everyone happy and well-rested is a near-impossible task.
The good news is, it doesn’t have to be that way! Traveling can be fulfilling and fun if you know how to ...
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The Early Postnatal Days
Written by: The Pregnancy Center
Physiotherapists from the Mater Mothers Hospital in Brisbane have been providing expert advice for women over many years. In the hospital's health and wellbeing section of their website, they have a wonderful array of information and accompanying educational DVD's to help you in the early days of having a baby.
They outline for you how physiotherapy can help and the services that are available for pregnancy and for po...
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