Are you a coach? Do you train women? Do you support women throughout the Motherhood Transition? Become a Prenatal and Postpartum BIRTHFIT Coach.  The first step is to complete the BIRTHFIT Education, which is online, and can be done all at your own pace. Next, you would submit your paperwork to become a BIRTHFIT Leader. At this point you’d be listed in our BIRTHFIT Directory where people can search for and find you.  The next step is to attend the BIRTHFIT Coach Seminar. These seminars are live and require full participation from you. These seminars are once a quarter in Houston ..read more

Heart Rate Variability is used to assess your body’s ability to adapt via your nervous system. Your nervous system communicates to you when you’re safe or unsafe. Ideally,  80% of the time we will live in the state of safety and only spend about 20% of our time in that perceived threat state. We like to think of Heart Rate Variability as the range of motion of our autonomic nervous system. It is highly individualized and fluctuates greatly. When it is trending down, we look at things like fatigue, dehydration, nutrition, alcohol consumption, stress, sickness, and so on. You could also b ..read more

We know that exercise provides many health benefits whether you’re pregnant or not. Becoming pregnant may bring up questions about which exercises are safe and which aren’t, or what to do if you want to move, but aren’t feeling so great. We want to make things simple. Take a look at our list of the best pregnancy exercises according to BIRTHFIT.     This entire pregnancy exercise list can be completed at home with no equipment or with a single dumbbell, kettlebell, or bands. That’s it. That’s all you need from this list. These are the basic movements that we are thinking about ..read more

  Can I do pull-ups during pregnancy?  Should I do pull-ups while pregnant?    When we say pull-ups we are referring to strict pull-ups, kipping pull-ups, butterfly pull-ups, and you could even throw ring strict and kipping muscle-ups in the mix.  Pull-ups are a gymnastics movement that requires strength, coordination, and overall awareness. To perform an efficient pull-up, a base level movement called the hollow body must be practiced and achieved in order to perform the movement efficiently. If this movement has not been practiced appropriately, chances are we wi ..read more

  Pelvic Mobility Pelvic mobility is critical for comfort and for supporting your body’s ability to adapt throughout pregnancy and the immediate postpartum. Pelvic mobility is also vitally important for labor and delivery. Labor is a dance between mom and baby. Ideally, baby is head down and sort of corkscrewing his/her way down and into the mother’s pelvis with the assistance of gravity. On top of regular chiropractic adjustments, we recommend that you walk, squat, lunge, and practice regular pelvic mobility daily throughout your pregnancy. This is one simple, yet effective, movement ..read more

NAUSEA and FATIGUE often greet women in the first trimester. ⁠ ⁠ For the majority of pregnancies, nausea will disappear by the second trimester. Nausea and fatigue only stick around for the second and third trimesters for 9% of pregnancies (Lily Nichols Blog).  ⁠ Here are 5 tips to help with nausea and fatigue in the first trimester: ⁠ ⁠ Manage nausea through food. Lily Nichols’s book, “Real Food for Pregnancy,” is fantastic as it gives a variety of ways to help support the body when you are fighting nausea. A few tips include eating small, frequent meals or snacks to prevent blood suga ..read more

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BIRTHFIT has recently partnered with WHOOP to optimize training performance and recovery for our clients. WHOOP is a wearable performance tracking band that measures strain, sleep, respiratory rate, and heart rate variability.  Currently, there is little data on strength and conditioning training for women, and even less on pregnancy and postpartum training. We hope that this is the start of some much-needed data and information to share with the rest of the world.  Prior to WHOOP, BIRTHFIT prioritized SENSATIONS & FEELINGS over the absolute numbers. We have encouraged YOU to ta ..read more

Watch the video below to find out why lunges are such an amazing movement for labor! https://birthfit.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Movement-for-Labor-Lunges.mp4   Get Started Below Online Programs: https://birthfit.com/programs/online/ Consultations: https://birthfit.com/programs/consultations/ Directory: https://birthfit.com/dir/ The post Movement for Labor: Lunges appeared first on B I R T H F I T ..read more

One sentiment I often hear from other moms before or after their first ultrasound is, “Oh my gosh! What if I’m having twins?” I have twins myself, so I’m not sure if I hear this regularly because they want my opinion on what it would be like, or if there is some fear surrounding having twins in general. I tend to think it is the latter, as the media today has sometimes portrayed a twin pregnancy as something to be feared or dramatized.  Twin pregnancies are inherently different from a singleton pregnancy because you’re having two babies instead of one. Beyond that things may not always b ..read more