View fullsize WHY INCLINE? During pregnancy it can be helpful to raise exercises up on an incline to help reduce core pressure on the abdominal wall and pelvic floor, to help your heart pump blood to your uterus and your baby, to help prevent you from feeling fain
View fullsize STRONG // STABLE Balanced. Healthy neuromuscular connections. Regulated nervous system. A body that can meet the challenges of pregnancy, birth, and postpartum with ease. That’s Whole Mama Fit. And @wildharesandcompany here this morning, buildi
View fullsize STAY SOFT Because soft is really the strongest thing. Build physical and mental strength, and learn how to let go. Be fierce, and surrender. Two things can be true at the same time and you are capable of that and so much more. And yes, that’s m
View fullsize PROGRESS This postpartum mama came to me wanting to strengthen her core, feel more connected post-c-section, and continue to heal her diastasis recti. And she’s progressing beautifully. The core foundations are working, and today she got to add
View fullsize HOW DO YOU WANT YOUR PREGNANCY TO FEEL?! Easy? Strong? Comfortable? Connected? Confident? I thought so. 😉 Pregnancy and birth always offer up things that can feel uncomfortable, emotionally and physically. There are bumps in the road. Always. But y
View fullsize SUPPORTED Did you know that properly using extra support and modifications for exercise during pregnancy can help you move better and find the right muscles more easily? This client felt a lot in her knees during squats and lunges, but by using the
View fullsize GRADUATION Had my last session with this strong mama today. For the time being. She has the tools to continue her fitness journey on her own but she wants to come back, which is the ultimate compliment! Once she gets some lift stuff sorted she hopes
View fullsize MAKE IT EASY I have a client who recently did a core workout with a guy friend of ours, and she said at the end he was “dying.” He found it so challenging. But her? She didn’t feel much at all. Because she’s been working with
View fullsize UNILATERAL Training the body to stay stable and strong while feeling resistance on only one side of the body has so many benefits for staying connected to your core and building strength and increasing athletic performance during pregnancy. Even if
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View fullsize JUST BREATHE That’s all. That’s the post. Just keep breathing. Happy Wednesday
View fullsize FULL BODY MOVEMENT Building functional strength for pregnancy, birth, and postpartum involves using the entire body and I love using the TRX @trxtraining not only as an option for some exercises themselves but also as a way to modify so clients have
View fullsize THE MORE YOU KNOW Does an uncomfortable procedure or pressuring the body to go into labor sound like a way to minimize cortisol and adrenaline production? Sometimes membrane sweeps work. Sometimes they don’t. It’s YOUR choice whether you
View fullsize BEAR (NO CRAWL) A challenging way to connect to your deep core muscles! The thing I love about this exercise is how *small* it needs to be to keep other muscles from trying to take over and “help” and the body awareness and strength that
View fullsize OVERHEAD SAUAT This exercise is an awesome one for mamas. It helps with mobility, thoracic extension (holding and feeding babies causes the chest to collapse and the upper back to round and this exercise helps counter that), balance, and helping the
View fullsize JUST SAYING HI I post and celebrate my clients a lot, and share lots of education, but I’m bad at putting my face on social media 😜 But I’m here! Training and educating clients for birth, helping them establish healthy core and pelvic fl
View fullsize MOVING MEDITATION Life is HECTIC. As mamas so much is demanded of us nonstop and stress is real. Even when we carve out time to “relax” often our minds can still be on the hamster wheel of thinking about everything we have to do! Not only
View fullsize FLEXION / EXTENSION Have you heard… “Don’t do crunches to heal diastasis recti!” It’s a common refrain. But did you know that the rectus abdominis (your six-pack muscles that separate along the midline during pregnancy
View fullsize MAKING SQUATS FEEL BETTER Knee pain during squats? I got you. I love watching the shift that happens when clients connect to their breath, are given tools to help their nervous system feel safe throughout the movement, and how they just do something
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My Personal Birth Stories

I have birthed two babies in the hospital.
One completely unmedicated vaginal birth (that was almost at home!)
and my youngest with an unplanned but non-emergency belly-birth. I am happy to share them with you here.

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Baby C's Unexpected Birth Story - Part 1 - The Pool
Baby C's Unexpected Birth Story - Part 1 - The Pool

I did not expect a Sunday when I was 38 weeks to be my last full day of my pregnancy.

And I did not expect to be faced with the birth experience I most feared.

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The Birth That Healed Me
The Birth That Healed Me

I needed to write a new version of my birth story because I realized there are some key pieces that I left out the first time! At the time, I didn't even realize they were important. If you want to read version 1.0, you can read it here. But here's my birth story, version 2.0.

How it all Began

The day Baby J decided to arrive,  I woke up around 7:30am, already experiencing contractions...

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It's HERE! Beautiful Brains, Bellies, and Babies
It's HERE! Beautiful Brains, Bellies, and Babies

I know good help is hard to find, ESPECIALLY when it comes to finding a personal trainer you click with, so it brings me so much joy to offer my coaching to the incredible souls I meet here in San Diego, and around the world. My Whole Healthy lives online, and I have connected with so many bright spirits in the online world. My husband being one, as well as many dear friends.

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For Pregnancy, Birth, and Beyond - Whole Healthy Mama

For Pregnancy, Birth, and Beyond - Whole Healthy Mama

By Team Subkit

 

Corrective Exercise

By Maggie Yount