Exercise safely, help keep mom & baby healthy, prepare for birth!
During pregnancy, many women are motivated to improve their health, as a way to care for themselves and their babies. Aerobic exercise helps to prevent or reduce common discomforts of pregnancy such as constipation or hemorrhoids. It also helps you build or maintain stamina for childbirth. Special toning exercises prepare your muscles for the work of birthing your baby. Along with adequate rest, learning relaxation techniques, drinking plenty of water, and eating well, exercise is one of the best ways you can care for yourself and your baby during your pregnancy!
Exercising Expectantly Prenatal Fitness Class: a fun, hands-on workshop with the information you want to know about exercise during pregnancy
Many expectant moms have a desire to be fit during their pregnancies, but have simple questions about safety, want to know how to make pregnancy more comfortable or how to best prepare for birth. In this hands-on prenatal fitness class, taught by a certified childbirth educator, we will:
show how proper posture can help avoid or reduce lower back ache
discuss how aerobic exercise helps prevent or reduce common discomforts of pregnancy and builds endurance for childbirth
learn special toning exercises to prepare your body for the work of childbirth
discuss changes in body image during pregnancy
make a plan to include beneficial exercises in your daily and weekly routines, especially how dads or other birth partners can be involved
This class is intended for healthy expectant mothers and their birth partners and is open to the general public. It is not intended for women at risk of preterm labor or who have medical reasons prohibiting exercise.
"The specific stretches and squatting exercises have been very good. I also liked being encouraged to exercise. I knew I should, but had not started before taking the class." --comments from an expectant mom several weeks after taking the class
About this class
Instructor: Christelle J. K. Hagen, CCE Christelle is a certified childbirth educator with Apple Tree Family Ministries ("Childbirth Without Fear", the Grantly Dick-Read Method). Christelle has been teaching and helping with childbirth education classes since 1999. Christelle decided to put together a new course that would give couples more of the facts that they need to know to achieve the natural pregnancies and intervention-free childbirths they desire. The Proactive PregnancyTM and Birth MattersTM courses were born. To learn more about Christelle, read about us.
Class Location: Belle Ballet Studio (129 1/2 South Main Street, Stillwater, MN 55082)
Class Meets: Tuesday, March 30; 7:30-9 pm
Contact Information: Contact Christelle at (651) 403-3556 or email: info@stcroixbirth.com
Class Fee: $25 single class fee (no additional charge if you are enrolled in the Proactive Pregnancy course)
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