Through 12 modules and 50+ lessons, you will learn:
- How to stay pain-free during your pregnancy
- How to exercise safely during your pregnancy
- Practical strategies to combat pregnancy pain
- The top exercises to minimize back and pelvic pain during pregnancy
- How to strengthen your core during and after your baby
- How to prevent vaginal trauma during delivery
- Step by step strategies to ensure smooth postpartum healing
Learn from Melissa, a pelvic floor physiotherapist with over 13 years of experience helping thousands of women through pregnancy and postpartum recovery.
Module 1: Pelvic Floor Foundation
- Intro to the Pelvic Floor
- What does the Pelvic Floor do?
- Advanced Anatomy
Module 2: Your Body During Pregnancy
- Physical Changes during pregnancy
- Common Conditions Experienced
- The best sleeping positions during pregnancy
Module 3: Pelvic Floor Muscle Control
- How to relax your pelvic floor (reverse kegel)
- How to strengthen your pelvic floor (Kegel)
- How posture can affect you
Module 4: Combat Pregnancy Pain with Exercise
- Is exercise safe for me and my baby?
- My 5 favourite exercises to relieve pregnancy pain
Module 5: Other ways to combat pregnancy pain
- Changes you can make to your everyday movement
- Massage
Module 6: Advanced Pelvic Floor Activation
- Advanced Pelvic Floor Activation
Module 7: Training Your Brian for Labour & Delivery
- Sphincter Law
- The Circle of Fear, Tension and Pain
- Mantras & Birth Affirmations
- Birth Companion Reading
Module 8: Birthing Trauma
- What is Perineal Tearing?
Module 9: Preparing to Push
- Perineal Stretching: How to do it!
- Breathing and Pushing Techniques
- Positions for Birth
- Putting your Partner to work!
- 36 Week Gestation
Module 10: Diastasis Recti
- What is Diastasis Recti
- Can you spot Diastasis Recti?
- Diastasis Recti 101
- Self Assessment: Do I have Diastasis Recti?
- Belly Bands: Can they help my Daistasis Recti?
Module 11: Safe Postpartum Exercise
- Getting back to Exercise Postpartum
- What you need to know before you start
- My 6 favourite exercises for postpartum recovery
Module 12: Life Postpartum
- The fourth trimester
- Life with a newborn
- The Postpartum checkup
- Early postpartum healing
- Postpartum Challenges
- Recommendations for return to exercise
- Recommendations for return to sex
365 Days of access to the course