Benefits
Exercise Workouts
- Re-establish breathing and postural awareness
- Reconnect with and strengthen your pelvic floor
- Regain core and full body strength
- Increase fitness levels
- Return to exercise including running and impact activities
- Exercise safely with physiotherapist guidance
Postpartum Education
Pelvic health advice and education on postpartum issues with minimal triggering content. Includes:
- Abdominal muscle separation
- Scar massage
- Bladder and bowel
- Prolapse symptoms and management
- Evidence-based guidelines on aspects such as Return to Running
Exercising After Loss
- Postpartum content that is sensitive to your loss
- Advice on how to stay emotionally safe whilst you exercise
- Learn how to handle emotions triggered by your body and/or exercise
- Gain the mental health benefits of exercise
What you recieve
Welcome Section
- How to stay emotionally safe during exercise
- How to get the most out of the programme
- Navigating the programme after a C-Section
- Health screening and goal setting
Pelvic Floor Workshop
- One instructional video and one strengthening video plus a written handout
Exercise Videos
- Five physio-led 'Reconnect' workouts. Starting with core control and body awareness and progressing gradually towards full body strengthening and impact work - all with a focus on correct pelvic floor engagement and strengthening
Return to Running and Impact Workshop
- Know when your body is ready for impact activities and running - Includes a written handout and a video taking you through the evidence-based Functional Load and Strength Tests
A Gentle Stretch Workout
- Stretches that women have found helpful for their physical symptoms of grief
Postpartum Education written for after a loss
- Diastasis Rectus Abdominis (tummy muscle separation)
- Bladder and Bowel
- Pelvic Organ Prolapse
- Caesarean Scar Massage
- When to see a Physiotherapist
Goal Review and What Next?
A little note from me....
I have created this online programme for early postpartum recovery because, through working with others who have experienced a loss, I know that your precious postpartum body both deserves it and needs it. My hope is that it becomes a positive part of your grief journey as you start to regain physical strength and emotional reconnection with your body. Thank you for letting me be part of your experience, I consider it a real privilege, and I am sending you so much care and encouragement as you begin your exercise journey.
