What you need to know to feel empowered, prepared, and confident throughout your pregnancy and postpartum journey
What you need to know to feel empowered, prepared, and confident throughout your pregnancy and postpartum journey. 4 LIVE modules and 1 Module with pre-recorded educational videos.
We offer the prenatal course twice a year. Please contact us to reserve your spot for the next upcoming sessions! All sessions are recorded, so you can reference the content closer to the delivery date or as needed.
About The Instructors
Amy Garnett
Amy is passionate about working with women experiencing pelvic floor dysfunction and helping them build strategies to return to the activities that they want to do.
Lindsay Tysdal
Clinically, Lindsay’s interests have also come to include pelvic health issues. She is passionate about helping women & men bridge the gap between rehab and fitness. Her work in this area involves prenatal and postpartum care.
Course Outline
Module 1:
Navigating pregnancy: Prenatal exercise progression and preparing the pelvic floor for birth.
- Pregnancy considerations and modifications as you progress through pregnancy
Module 2 & 3:
Labour and delivery: Everything you need to know from early labour to delivery
- Epidural
- Interventions in delivery, when and why they go to a csection
- Pushing and positions
- When to go to the hospital
- Stages of labour
- Coping strategies during labour and pushing.
Module 4:
4th trimester: Early postpartum education, breastfeeding basics, and how to attend to your healing body.
- Breastfeeding (what to expect first few days)
- PP depression/anxiety
- Lifting
- Posture, breath, engagement
- Breast feeding
PP bowel movement (fibre and fluids)
Module 5:
Navigating the postpartum period: strategies and considerations in returning to activity and exercise
- Scar massage (perineal and c-section)
- Return to impact )sport, running, HIIT. Etc)
- Sign of pelvic floor dysfunction (including POP)
- How to assess for DRA
- Rest, rehab and retrain
- Comparison is the thief of joy
Registration is Open!
Please contact us to reserve your spot for the next upcoming sessions!
Regular Fee: $200