Exercise & Fitness

Pregnancy is a great time to evaluate your priorities, and commit to investing in your health so you can have the best possible birth experience. This is the perfect time to start focusing on physical health — exercise and fitness.

Exercising in pregnancy can have many benefits including:

  • Better stamina for labor

  • Better sleep

  • Improved mental health

  • Prevent some pregnancy complications

  • Shorten labor by helping baby into a good position

    Here are some ideas and resources that you may find helpful:

    YouTube series of Yoga by Trimester:

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmUJWKM98hM

    Spinning Babies Daily Essentials

Gail Tully, midwife, and Sarah Longacre, international prenatal yoga instructor and birth doula, offer a unique instructional video for comfort in pregnancy now, and in your upcoming birth. These daily activities begin balancing your pregnant body to make space for baby’s best birth position.

Some videos to look up are Inversions, Side lying leg release, and 3-sisters of balance.

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Three Sisters of Balance

The Three Sisters of Balance is a technique created by collaborators of Spinning Babies. It is made up of Rebozo shifting, Forward-leaning inversion, and Side-lying leg release.

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Door Jamb Squats

Squatting was at one time the common way for everyone to sit and many bodyworkers say that our lack of squatting in modern society has lead to longer labors. A few benefits you may find by squatting are shortened second stage of labor, increasing the pelvic diameter, working with gravity, prevent lower back and hip pain, and increased endurance during labor. Watch Courtney show you how to do a proper door jamb squat.

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Margie Wallis

It's normal to feel both excited and anxious as you anticipate the birth of your baby! Frisco Birth Center specializes in guiding expectant families through pregnancy and birth so you feel safe, confident, informed and nurtured from your first prenatal appointment through the first weeks of your baby's life. Birth where you feel most comfortable — your home or our cozy home-like birth center in Old Town Frisco. We offer holistic care, body, mind and heart, blended with the tools of modern midwifery so you and your baby have evidence-based care in a supportive, comforting environment. With the Midwifery Model of Care, you are the center of our focus. Birth can be better.

https://FriscoMidwife.com
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