Mindful Training for the Third Trimester
Working Out in the Third Trimester Here we go, into the third trimester, you’re almost there! Soon you will get to meet your sweet baby you’ve been growing for the past 26 weeks. As you and your baby continue to grow, maintaining functional movement is very important and valuable to …
Top 10 Tips for a Gentle Cesarean
We, at BIRTHFIT, are all about every woman being educated and empowered to make informed, intuitively guided decisions in every part of the motherhood transition – from preconception all the way into parenthood – and birth is an experience that provides many opportunities for choices. This is a great blog …
A Simple Exercise to Take You Toward Your Highest Self
BIRTHFIT’s definition of MINDSET: To create space between a stimulus and response, to practice a growth perspective, and to create action around values in order to make decisions from a place of love rather than fear. This is a fully loaded definition that can be broken down into many learnings, …
Preparing for a Cesarean Birth with Chiropractic Care
April was Cesarean Awareness Month and I saw more posts than usual online about it, but it’s a topic that comes up often in my office. Cesarean delivery — also known as a C-section — is a surgical procedure used to deliver a baby through incisions in the mother’s abdomen …
Setting yourself up for an Empowered VBAC with Chiropractic Care
If you experienced the joy of having your first child, you probably know that birth can be amazing yet unpredictable. If you delivered your first baby (or babies) via Cesarean, and plan to birth vaginally in the future, now is a great time to connect with a chiropractor! Some care …
Finding the right chiropractor for YOU!
Just like with an Ob/Gyn or midwife, dentist, GP, or child’s pediatrician, a person should be interviewing chiropractors to find the right one for them. We should feel comfortable with any of our doctors and feel that they are a good fit in our lives. I find this to be …
Finding a Prenatal Chiropractor to Support You
In just nine months, a woman carries and provides for the creation of new life. The most complex system on the planet is formed without any help from the outside world. Constantly changing from the moment of conception, a woman’s body can be supported by gentle chiropractic adjustments to better …
Addressing the Fear of a Breech Baby
With so much contradictory information online and frightening stories shared by our friends and family, it’s no wonder that many pregnant women feel overwhelmed by all that can go wrong. For me, one of my fears was hearing that my baby might be breech. In this blog entry, I share …
BIRTHFIT Podcast featuring Kevin Bonar and his wife Lindsay
BIRTHFIT Podcast Episode 65: Kevin and Lindsay Bonar [0:00:00] Lindsey: All right, guys! Thanks to our sponsors, Original Nutritionals. Our friends at Original are on a mission with us to walk the walk when it comes to human betterment. They’ve created a brand founded on pure …