An online self-paced Pregnancy Wellness Program for expecting moms who want to have the healthiest Pregnancy & child possible
This is a one-of-a-kind, holistic program that educates, strengthens and empowers you to make the best decisions for your body and baby. We are here to remove the fear and anxiety and make having a healthy pregnancy and delivery feel easy.
LIfestyle during pregnancy
Did you know that the way you breathe, exercise, eat, sleep, and think affects the health of your baby? Your daily habits impact how a gene expresses, not only in you but in your unborn baby as well!
The problem is, no one teaches you how to have a healthy pregnancy. And worse, we are conditioned to fear pregnancy, and childbirth in particular – even though it’s something the female body was designed to do. There is no shortage of opinions on how to live a healthy lifestyle these days, but it can feel overwhelming to know who to listen to and how to put it all into practice.
Imagine combining health coaching + group fitness + meditation + childbirth preparation + postpartum prep & support + a place to ask ALL your pre & postnatal questions + a community of like-minded moms-to-be! The Prenatal Wellness Program educates and inspires you for the role you play in enhancing the health of your child – from conception through postpartum.
Feeling Good During and After Pregnancy
Imagine combining Fitness, nutrition, Breathing, Thoughts and emotions and Lifestyle adjustments! The Prenatal Wellness Course educates and inspires you for the role you play in enhancing the health of yourself and your child – from conception through postpartum. Our course has this and more!
Exercise and nutrition during pregnancy lay the foundation for postpartum recovery by supporting muscle strength, energy levels, and overall well-being, aiding in the transition to motherhood. Additionally, maintaining healthy habits postpartum can promote faster healing, assist in weight management, and contribute to positive mental health outcomes for newly postpartum women.
Exercise During Pregnancy
Regular exercise during pregnancy, tailored to individual fitness levels and approved by a healthcare provider, can promote overall well-being by improving mood, reducing discomfort, and enhancing stamina for labor and delivery. Exercises like the Core Breathing Belly Pump combined with activities like strengtg training, yoga, pilates etc. are generally safe and effective ways to stay active during pregnancy, preparing your body for birth and postpartum.
Nutrition During Pregnancy
Nutrition during pregnancy plays a vital role in supporting the growth and development of the fetus. A balanced diet rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lean proteins, and dairy products provides essential nutrients such as folic acid, iron, calcium, and omega-3 fatty acids, promoting both maternal health and optimal fetal development.
This Course is for you if you:
- Are a soon-to-be mom
- Love fitness & holistic health
- Desire to use your pregnancy as an opportunity to learn how to enhance your health through movement, nutrition, mindset, lifestyle, and breathing
- Want the flexibility of a self-paced course
- Enjoy having clear action steps that you can follow to improve your health and the health of your unborn child, alongside the understanding that you are a unique individual who cannot be placed into a cookie-cutter box
- Intuitively know that it is wise to prepare mentally and physically for what will be one of the most challenging events of your life: labor & delivery
Pregnancy: Health and Wellbeing
Maintaining a balanced diet rich in nutrients and regular exercise during pregnancy promotes both maternal and fetal health, while regular prenatal check-ups ensure the well-being of both mother and baby by monitoring crucial developmental milestones and addressing any potential concerns early on.
Pregnancy often brings challenges such as fatigue, back pain, and mood swings, which can affect the well-being of expectant mothers. However, maintaining a healthy diet rich in nutrients and engaging in regular exercise can help alleviate these challenges by boosting energy levels, reducing discomfort, and promoting emotional well-being. Proper nutrition provides essential vitamins and minerals necessary for fetal development and maternal health, while exercise helps strengthen muscles, improve circulation, and manage stress, contributing to a smoother pregnancy experience overall. By prioritizing both nutrition and exercise, expectant mothers can better navigate the physical and emotional demands of pregnancy while promoting optimal health for themselves and their babies.
PROGRAM DETAILS
- Pregnancy safe Exercises you can start today, that will help you feel great. (Core, Pelvic Floor, functional prenatal corrective exercise).
- Simple ways for you to direct your Thoughts & Emotions to benefit your baby, pregnancy, labor & delivery.
- Discover how to Breathe in a way that positively affects your baby and pregnancy.
- Identify Lifestyle adjustments that are both necessary for you baby, but also easy to implement in your specific family circumstance. We’ll cover sleep, household products, environmental essentials, wireless technology, and more to help you increase your awareness of choices during this incredibly important period of life.
- Nutritional Guidance and recipes, that will help make nourishing yourself and your baby simpler and easier.
- Birth Planning for a truly empowering Labor and Delivery.
Staying Healthy During Pregnancy
The First Trimester
During the first trimester of pregnancy, it’s essential to focus on consuming nutritious foods such as fruits, vegetables, lean proteins, and whole grains to support fetal development and alleviate common symptoms like nausea and fatigue. Additionally, staying hydrated and getting plenty of rest can help manage discomfort and promote overall well-being during this crucial stage of pregnancy.
The Second Trimester
In the second trimester of pregnancy, maintaining regular prenatal appointments for check-ups and screenings is crucial for monitoring the health of both mother and baby and addressing any emerging issues promptly. Additionally, incorporating moderate exercise and continuing to eat a balanced diet rich in essential nutrients supports the growing needs of the developing fetus while promoting maternal well-being and energy levels.
The Third Trimester:
During the third trimester of pregnancy, prioritizing adequate rest and sleep becomes increasingly important to manage fatigue and prepare for labor and delivery. Engaging in gentle exercises like walking or prenatal yoga can help alleviate discomfort, promote circulation, and prepare the body for childbirth while maintaining a nutritious diet supports both maternal health and the optimal growth of the baby.
outline of the self-paced COURSE
Meet James, the Founder of Fit For Birth and the proud papa who began his career in pre & postnatal fitness while expecting his own child!
Learning from our Ancestors. Unless we understand how we got here, today’s birthing culture makes it impossible to make the best choices going forward. Come with us on a journey through time to learn about the leaps forward in birth and the missteps along the way. What we can tell you about this history is that it isn’t always pretty, but knowledge is power – and prenatal empowerment, is our mission.
This section will familiarize you with the common medical procedures in birth, C-sections, episiotomies, and pain relief. We will take a look at the current global landscape and compare trends to better understand the importance of choice during childbirth.
Hormones, temperature, heartbeats, blood pressure. What’s normal and what’s cause for concern. We believe that women are their best advocates and this course will give you the knowledge to better understand and communicate with your birth and health professionals throughout your pregnancy and delivery experiences.
Fit For Birth has been engaging strong women who are pre & postnatal for more than a decade, so when you learn prenatal exercise from us you can be sure we are specifically teaching you fitness techniques to build muscles that are important for your birth experience – your Core Breathing Belly Pump™, multiple layers and directions for your pelvic floor, and your glutes.
You’ve been breathing forever but do you know how to breathe properly? Take a second to look at yourself in a mirror as you take a deep breath. What do you see moving?
If you answered, “my chest and shoulders” you would be like the majority of people in the modern world who have given up breathing from their diaphragm for chest breathing. We teach you in this course why correcting this imbalance is SO important, and how you can alter your breathing patterns today because this is the key foundational piece to:
Stress reduction
Core strength
Correcting body alignment to reduce or remove pain
You know better than anyone that you are already building a relationship to your baby as he/she grows inside you. Well, now research is telling us how important it is to be mindful of our thoughts and feelings while nurturing your baby in utero. Do your emotions affect your unborn baby? Yeah, and we will give you guided imageries and meditations to help you build the kind of relationship that you desire with your little one right now!
Nutrition for you, and your baby. with recipes and a downloadable “baby’s nutritional handbook,” this section is designed to guide you and your food choices over the next 9 months.
of You and Your Baby
There’s so much to know about lifestyle choices when you are pregnant. We have picked some really important ones to cover here: sleep, household toxins, environmental concerns, and others to help you increase your awareness of choices during this incredibly important period of life.
In this section, we guide you through the process of deciding what kind of birth is right for you, what to ask your midwife, doula or health care providers, and how to avoid pregnancy complications.
Common Tests During Pregnancy
During pregnancy, common tests such as glucose screening and oral glucose tolerance tests are conducted to screen for gestational diabetes, a condition that can develop during pregnancy and affect both maternal and fetal health. Monitoring blood sugar levels helps healthcare providers identify and manage gestational diabetes early, reducing the risk of complications and promoting a healthy pregnancy outcome.
FAQ’s
The Prenatal Wellness Course is created specifically to serve pre-conception and prenatal women who are ready to take control of their health. In addition, Wellness Professionals will find this course to be an incredible supplement to their PPCES course work. The PWC explores more in depth the 5 Foundations, especially Nutrition, Lifestyle, and Thoughts. Because of this, the PWC can serve as a de facto “Prenatal Health Coaching” Course.
A self-paced interactive course that includes:
- 10 Hours of Video Presentation, arranged into topic segments that range from ten to forty minutes in length
-Prenatal Wellness Course Transcripts (Available if desired, Online and Downloadable)
-Exercise Video Library with over 70+ exercises safe and beneficial for pregnancy
-Prenatal Nutrition Handbook
-Action Steps Handbook to make it super simple to apply the pieces that are right for you
-All materials are provided to you as part of a state-of-the-art E-Learning platform, which is fully accessible to you immediately, using your email and password - Email Support
- Live and recorded classes that cover the 5 foundations and more, including exercise classes, childbirth prep and nutrition to name a few!
- Immediate access to our Prenatal Wellness Course, a 12-hour state of the art series of 30-60min video & audio presentations that help you breathe better, move better, eat better, live better, reduce stress and think better. It is an online do-at-your-own-pace educational course with “Actions Steps” to prepare you for labor and make health simple along the way. (More details below)
- The option to set up a FREE 15 minute call with Head Coach Clara, to answer any questions or to help you get started with the course.
It’s completely up to you on how fast you finish the program. Here is an approximate breakdown on what to expect from the online course material:
Video Presentation (with transcripts to follow, if desired): 10 hours
Prenatal Nutrition Handbook: 2 hours.
You can expect to feel incredibly empowered and inspired to take actions that serve you as you prepare for labor or prepare for pregnancy! You will understand health from a completely new standpoint – one that combines ancient wisdom with modern benefits. You will also have lifetime access to the course online, and our online community of ongoing support. Coming soon, we have a 4 week small group program to give you accountability and support during your pregnancy or postpartum journey.
Yes, the course is designed for participation at any location that is convenient to you. You will need a computer with internet access. If you do not have online access, please contact us and we will happily help you find another way to participate.
Coming soon!
Small Group Coaching Monthly Membership option that includes weekly fitness & wellness classes, a monthly mastermind with research based pregnancy/postpartum topics, and 24/7 access to our staff of Holistic Fertility & Pregnancy Safe Coaches who are Fit For Birth certified personal trainers, childbirth educators, doulas and wellness coaches.
Our 4-week program includes the Prenatal Wellness Course, live online classes and group assessments. So that you can get the most out of your workouts, you will have 24/7 access to pre & postnatal wellness professionals. We are here to remove the fear and anxiety and make having a healthy pregnancy and delivery feel easy.
This program hands down is the most functional and realistic approach in helping mothers
"Or anyone for that matter connect to their inner core unit and FEEL good about their bodies mentally and physically. The material taught in this guide can changes thousands of peoples lives. Well worth it. It completely changes your approach and your knowledge of inner core unit functionality."
Hannah Bower
