How to Heal Fatigue After Baby
The first 12 weeks after birth are a critical time of healing and bonding, yet so little reverence is paid to this “fourth trimester.” A mother’s body has done the incredibly challenging work of growing a baby and giving birth, and now she must recover while potentially nourishing her baby …
Four Lab Tests Every Mom Needs After Baby Arrives
After baby arrives, everyone is rightfully concerned with testing and monitoring the health of this brand new bundle of life. From nearly their first breath, babies are pricked, tapped, and tested for everything under the sun. Unfortunately, the standard postpartum testing for mom still leaves something to be desired. As …
7 Key Benefits of Collagen for Mamas
Collagen for Pregnancy and Postpartum You may have read or heard BIRTHIFT say that we love bone broth and collagen peptides for pregnancy and postpartum. I would like to dive deeper in on why these foods are so beneficial for the body during the Motherhood Transition. What is collagen and …
Postpartum Lifting Modifications for Diastasis Recti
Lifting Weights Postpartum If you read the three-part blog series about diastasis recti by Dr. Lauren Keller, you probably have a pretty good understanding of what Diastasis Rectus Abdominis (or DRA) is, common causes, and ways to prevent and treat it. We learned that it is a common thing to …
How a Self-Care Mind Map Can Change Your Routine
Self-Care: Beyond a Mani/Pedi Self-care seems to be a bit of a buzzword these days – especially out there in the Mom world. In every BIRTHFIT Postpartum Series I lead, we have a class devoted to talking about self-care with the idea that you must take care of yourself in …
Meal Prep for Real Moms
Finding the Time and Energy to Meal Prep I’m not going to lie here, I used to hear ‘meal prep’ and immediately think it meant putting the exact same chicken and broccoli meal into seven Tupperware containers and eating the same thing every day. Yeah, that’s not going to happen. …
Foot Pain in Pregnancy? Try these tips!
Why Do My Feet Hurt?! The human foot is made up of 26 bones, 33 joints, 107 ligaments, and 19 muscles and tendons. All of the bones in the foot comprise about 25% of the bones in your entire body! And everyday, all of these bones, joints and ligaments are …
Chiropractic Care: Supporting the Breastfeeding Relationship
Chiropractic Care and Breastfeeding As a chiropractor who specializes in prenatal and pediatric care, I often have women bring babies into my office because they heard chiropractic can improve their breastfeeding relationship. And that is true! Regardless of how your baby enters the world, the birth process places a great …
Box Squats During Pregnancy and Postpartum
Why We Love the Box Squat I recently started working with a prenatal mama and on day one, as I do with most prenatal clients on day one, we box squatted. This woman has been a member of my gym and taken my Postpartum Series after baby #1 and as …
You’re Cleared for Exercise Postpartum
This blog was adapted from its original post on https://drlaurenkeller.com by the author. Who wasn’t anxiously waiting to hear those four little words, “You’re cleared for exercise” after having a baby? I don’t know about you but after four to six weeks of not moving regularly, I was itching to …