F-KIS (Fitness-Keep It Simple)-I have decided to dedicate this blog to keeping fitness simple during your pregnancy and afterwards for the next few weeks.
Pregnancy is an exciting time, and you know that you should keep up with your fitness routine. But with all the sleepless nights, doctor's appointments and trips to the furniture store, it seems like it is hard to find the time. This blog will give you a few, important exercises that can be done in your own home to make your pregnancy, labor and delivery a little easier.
Finding time (and energy) for exercise after having the baby is no piece of cake either. This blog will also highlight exercises that you can sneak in while your baby is napping and exercises that you can do together.
Showing posts with label baby. Show all posts
Showing posts with label baby. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Join our team for the March for Babies
The Hot Mama Fitness Studio has started a team to walk in the March of Dimes March for Babies.
Our team has joined thousands of compassionate teams across the country that support March for Babies. Won′t you please help us in this worthy cause? Join us in the walk that helps all moms and babies.
The money we raise for March for Babies will help:
...support all-important research offering preventions and solutions for babies born too soon or with birth defects
...educate women on things they can do to increase their chances of having a healthy baby
...provide comfort and information to families with a newborn in intensive care
...push for newborn screening and health insurance for all pregnant women and children.
Please click on the icon on the side of this blog or go to the link below to join our team or donate to our team. We will be having fun fundraisers at The Studio to raise money for the March.
Thanks for your support!
http://www.marchforbabies.org/s_team_page.asp?SeId=630300&si=
Our team has joined thousands of compassionate teams across the country that support March for Babies. Won′t you please help us in this worthy cause? Join us in the walk that helps all moms and babies.
The money we raise for March for Babies will help:
...support all-important research offering preventions and solutions for babies born too soon or with birth defects
...educate women on things they can do to increase their chances of having a healthy baby
...provide comfort and information to families with a newborn in intensive care
...push for newborn screening and health insurance for all pregnant women and children.
Please click on the icon on the side of this blog or go to the link below to join our team or donate to our team. We will be having fun fundraisers at The Studio to raise money for the March.
Thanks for your support!
http://www.marchforbabies.org/s_team_page.asp?SeId=630300&si=
Friday, January 9, 2009
Exercise During Pregnancy Benefits Mother and Child
This is a very interesting article about the benefits of pre-natal exercise on both mom and the baby.
http://www.naturalnews.com/025261.html
http://www.naturalnews.com/025261.html
Thursday, April 24, 2008
10 Amazing Benefits of Prenatal Bellydance
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The Hot Mama Fitness Studio will offer BirthDiva Pre-Natal Bellydance starting in June. Why would you want to bellydance during your pregnancy? Our instructor, Shayla, tells us why:
1. Bellydancing makes moms feel great about their bodies. You will learn to appreciate your curves and build your self-esteem.
2. Bellydancing can improve your flexibility.
3. Bellydancing can help ease the discomforts of pregnancy and labor.
4. Bellydancing can give you the endurance that you need for labor.
5. Bellydancing can tone and strengthen your leg muscles to prevent fatigue in while pushing.
6. Bellydancing can help encourage your baby to descend in labor.
7. Bellydancing is the perfect way to tap into your feminine energy.
8. Bellydancing can improve your core strength which will increase your balance.
9. Bellydancing can calm an active baby in the womb.
10. Bellydancing is FUN!
Sign up for classes now at www.hotmamafitnessstudio.com. We will see you at class!
Shaylah is a mother of four and the owner of BirthDiva, LLC. She offers natural childbirth classes (Bradley Method®), birth and postpartum doula services, and prenatal bellydance classes in the DC metropolitan areas. She can be reached at www.BirthDiva.com or 202-271-3240 .
The Hot Mama Fitness Studio will offer BirthDiva Pre-Natal Bellydance starting in June. Why would you want to bellydance during your pregnancy? Our instructor, Shayla, tells us why:
1. Bellydancing makes moms feel great about their bodies. You will learn to appreciate your curves and build your self-esteem.
2. Bellydancing can improve your flexibility.
3. Bellydancing can help ease the discomforts of pregnancy and labor.
4. Bellydancing can give you the endurance that you need for labor.
5. Bellydancing can tone and strengthen your leg muscles to prevent fatigue in while pushing.
6. Bellydancing can help encourage your baby to descend in labor.
7. Bellydancing is the perfect way to tap into your feminine energy.
8. Bellydancing can improve your core strength which will increase your balance.
9. Bellydancing can calm an active baby in the womb.
10. Bellydancing is FUN!
Sign up for classes now at www.hotmamafitnessstudio.com. We will see you at class!
Shaylah is a mother of four and the owner of BirthDiva, LLC. She offers natural childbirth classes (Bradley Method®), birth and postpartum doula services, and prenatal bellydance classes in the DC metropolitan areas. She can be reached at www.BirthDiva.com or 202-271-3240 .
Saturday, February 23, 2008
Pre-natal Exercise Benefits for Baby
Rest assured, you will not be the only one benefi ting from your exercise routine. Your baby will, of course, be benefiting too.
Dr. Clapp also studied the effects of prenatal exercise on babies and found that expectant mothers who exercise have “tougher” babies. The stresses of late pregnancy and labor do not produce as many warning signs in the babies of exercising mothers. They are also lighter and leaner, with no signs of growth retardation. “Exercising” babies have also shown that they respond better to
their environments after birth, and are more likely to develop a selfsoothing
instinct, perhaps hastening a baby’s ability to sleep through the night.
Pregnancy and motherhood are life-changing events that are filled with highs and lows, good days and bad days. By exercising during pregnancy, expectant women can
begin the new chapter in their lives with optimism and a sense of doing what is best for themselves and for their babies. With such an auspicious beginning, the best is yet to come!
Dr. Clapp also studied the effects of prenatal exercise on babies and found that expectant mothers who exercise have “tougher” babies. The stresses of late pregnancy and labor do not produce as many warning signs in the babies of exercising mothers. They are also lighter and leaner, with no signs of growth retardation. “Exercising” babies have also shown that they respond better to
their environments after birth, and are more likely to develop a selfsoothing
instinct, perhaps hastening a baby’s ability to sleep through the night.
Pregnancy and motherhood are life-changing events that are filled with highs and lows, good days and bad days. By exercising during pregnancy, expectant women can
begin the new chapter in their lives with optimism and a sense of doing what is best for themselves and for their babies. With such an auspicious beginning, the best is yet to come!
Saturday, February 2, 2008
Pre-natal Exercise Benefits for Mom
We all have known women who have complained about aches and pains they experienced during their pregnancies. Although pregnancy requires the female body to undergo
major physical changes, regular and sustained exercise is the secret to alleviating many of the discomforts and health conditions that accompany a pregnancy.
Women who exercise throughout the nine months are able to maintain and often improve their cardiovascular fi tness levels, as well as increase muscular strength and endurance. Balance, coordination and posture are problems for most pregnant women. However, women who exercise tend to experience these problems to a lesser degree than their non-exercising counterparts.
Maternal weight gain and fat accumulation is also reduced in exercising women. Studies conducted by Dr. James F. Clapp III, a leading authority on the effects of
exercise on pregnancy, have shown that pregnant women who exercise at least three hours per week over the duration of their pregnancies gain an average of eight pounds
less, and their body fat percentages increase three percent less than nonexercising
women. The end result is that, through exercise, women can maintain a leaner appearance while pregnant—a boost to most expectant mothers’ body image!
Pregnant women often complain of having problems with varicose veins, back pain, leg cramps, swelling, constipation, nausea,insomnia, anxiety, depression and incontinence. Imagine a pregnancy free of such discomforts! Exercise can help. In fact, exercising helps to reduce the incidence of pregnancy-induced hypertension and
gestational diabetes, too.
Women who continue regular weight-bearing exercise throughout their pregnancy tend to have easier,shorter and less complicated labors. Dr. Clapp’s studies have shown that exercising women have a 35 percent decrease in the need for pain relief during labor, a 55 percent decrease in the need for an episiotomy and a 50 percent decrease in the need to induce labor. Also, among women who have vaginal births, the length
of labor was shorter.
Exercising women also tend to have more positive attitudes, higher energy levels and lower incidences of colds and flu. Plus, most of these women are able to return to their prepregnancy weight within a year.
It is important to note that women are more likely to achieve the above benefits if they are able to continue their exercise program throughout the duration of their
pregnancy.
major physical changes, regular and sustained exercise is the secret to alleviating many of the discomforts and health conditions that accompany a pregnancy.
Women who exercise throughout the nine months are able to maintain and often improve their cardiovascular fi tness levels, as well as increase muscular strength and endurance. Balance, coordination and posture are problems for most pregnant women. However, women who exercise tend to experience these problems to a lesser degree than their non-exercising counterparts.
Maternal weight gain and fat accumulation is also reduced in exercising women. Studies conducted by Dr. James F. Clapp III, a leading authority on the effects of
exercise on pregnancy, have shown that pregnant women who exercise at least three hours per week over the duration of their pregnancies gain an average of eight pounds
less, and their body fat percentages increase three percent less than nonexercising
women. The end result is that, through exercise, women can maintain a leaner appearance while pregnant—a boost to most expectant mothers’ body image!
Pregnant women often complain of having problems with varicose veins, back pain, leg cramps, swelling, constipation, nausea,insomnia, anxiety, depression and incontinence. Imagine a pregnancy free of such discomforts! Exercise can help. In fact, exercising helps to reduce the incidence of pregnancy-induced hypertension and
gestational diabetes, too.
Women who continue regular weight-bearing exercise throughout their pregnancy tend to have easier,shorter and less complicated labors. Dr. Clapp’s studies have shown that exercising women have a 35 percent decrease in the need for pain relief during labor, a 55 percent decrease in the need for an episiotomy and a 50 percent decrease in the need to induce labor. Also, among women who have vaginal births, the length
of labor was shorter.
Exercising women also tend to have more positive attitudes, higher energy levels and lower incidences of colds and flu. Plus, most of these women are able to return to their prepregnancy weight within a year.
It is important to note that women are more likely to achieve the above benefits if they are able to continue their exercise program throughout the duration of their
pregnancy.
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