The Devoted Mamas' Pregnancy, Birth & Postpartum Blog

I was teaching my prenatal & postpartum core essentials class earlier this week and we were talking about minimizing diastasis recti (or...

Once you’ve wrapped your head around why we mamas have to exercise differently for a bit and the mental shift we have to deal with in...

Learn the 4 keys of pelvic floor and core work: 1 – Alignment – your posture! The alignment of your ribs over your hips is super...

We believe that being strong and being grateful for the body that gave you your baby are not mutually exclusive. You don’t have to give...

Now that we’ve talked about why postpartum exercises is so different and why we really need to pay attention to that difference, we have...

Yes, it’s different. But what happens if you don’t actually DO things differently? Well…potentially a lot. Now, we are not trying to...

When I had my first son in 2013, I thought the healing process would be relatively easy. I was fit, I worked out through my entire...

It can be tempting to want to do all the preparations, all the practices, all the reading, (all the sleeping!) right this red hot minute....

I have to be honest. Finding time to workout is one of my BIGGEST challenges…and I teach other people how to workout it for a living! So...

Swimming is an awesome way to exercise in postpartum. It feels soooo good to float and glide in the water! No wonder our babies love...

Why do we feel so anxious, unsupported and generally overwhelmed during pregnancy and even during postpartum? Especially nowadays when we...

In our book, no exercise is off-limits in postpartum. BUT, it’s all about integrity. It’s absolutely key that you’re doing exercises...

How great would it be to improve how well your pelvic floor functions while you sit?! We sit so much during the day that this is one of...

If you’ve been around us long enough, you know we encourage new moms to move as soon as possible after giving birth. But what do you do??...

GASP! Yes, we said it. The current standard of waiting until you have ‘the green light’ to exercise at 6 weeks is doing a serious...

Don’t go outside with wet hair or you’ll catch a cold. Feed a cold, starve a fever. Cows lie down when it’s going to rain. You’ve likely...

Body brushing, or “dry brushing” as it’s often called, is brushing your skin with a special brush to improve your health in numerous ways.