WHAT MOST WOMEN SAY…

“I can’t believe doing such small movements can make such a big difference in how good I can feel!”

That’s one of the most common things women say after doing Pregnant Pauses.

Pregnant Pauses is a completely new way of moving and engaging around movement; there’s no stretching or pushing or working hard, in fact you’re discouraged from doing any of that.  Actually, the process you take part in is closer to what your baby will be doing as he or she learns and explores the world.

Here is a wonderful video of “Baby Liv” demonstrating some of the ideas behind Pregnant Pauses.  Watching this can show you something of how we all learned to initially move in the world.  More important, it will give you some idea of where you can begin to get more comfortable, have less pain and have an easier and healthier overall pregnancy by using Pregnant Pauses.

BABY LIV

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The video is only about 3 minutes long and will surely leave you smiling…and maybe a little bit more curious…

It might lead you to the next question many women want to know,  “Where did Pregnant Pauses come from?”  Well…it is a direct application of the Feldenkrais Method® of Somatic Education.  Developed over 70 years ago by Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais, a brilliant thinker and innovator.  You can read, listen and experience more about the Feldenkrais Method® at:     www.uncommonsensing.com.

Learning to move in this new way will help you understand how your baby develops and grows.  Rather than just being told about how your child progresses, you’ll appreciate it from the inside.

Thanks to Irene Gutteridge and TheNext25Years for producing this great video.

EVERY MOTHER AND FATHER I TOLD THIS TO WAS AMAZED!

Whether this is your first child or you already have one or more, you are going to be spending a fair amount of time cleaning your child.  Bathing them, washing their face, cleaning his or her cute little bottoms, all essential parts of taking care of your baby.

It goes without saying that everyone takes extra care when tending to his or her delicate little baby.  But most people never consider an important aspect of what it means to clean their child.  Something that is true for every one of us.  In fact it is so fundamental that we all seem to miss it.

How do you clean your baby!  I don’t mean what kind of soap you use, or how often or the temperature of the water.  I am talking about how you use your hands to actually clean your baby.  It is simply something everyone just does without ever thinking about it.

Let’s get to the nitty gritty, not the fun little baths or wiping their face, I am talking about the poop.  Sure it can be cute sometimes, but let’s face it, that gets old fast.

Now I am going to be taking about something that for many is a bit taboo.  Not that there is anything bad about it, its just something we usually don’t speak about in this way.  Curiously enough this has to do with how we clean ourselves.  Think about it, how did you learn to clean yourself?  You simply learned it from how you were treated.  It goes way back to your parent(s), or whoever had the job of taking care of you.

When I ask adults the question, “How much force do you use when you wipe yourself?”, sure I get some strange looks, but when they consider it, they always say something like, “Gee, I never thought about it.”  Why would they?

But when you have newborn baby it is something really worth considering because how you clean yourself is likely to be reflected in how you clean your baby.

Every mother and father I have talked to about this was always amazed!  Everyone always came back to me and said, “I can’t believe how much force I use when I clean my baby!”

And all of them changed the way they interacted around cleaning and also found it changed their touch in general with their child.

 

TRY THIS

When you begin to clean your baby take the time to consider… are using more force or effort than you need to.  Play with finding out just how much force you really need to use to get that little bottom clean.

You’ll find that this will not only change how you interact with your baby during cleaning, it will change how you touch your baby throughout their development and for sure, they will enjoy the process of be cleaned much, much, much more!

 

And stay tuned for more about how you can interact with your baby and yourself throughout your pregnancy!

EASE PAIN DURING PREGNANCY WITH SIX SIMPLE EXERCISES (6 OF 6)

6 WAYS TO DEAL WITH PREGNANCY PAIN

Here is the sixth of six ways to help you with pregnancy pain…check in next week for more ideas on different topics!

Pain is a signal about how you may be misusing your self.

Everyone gets pain, but during pregnancy, with all the dramatic changes that occur, you need more means to deal with pain when it shows up.

The most recent research on pain shows that it is more than just the place that hurts. It is your brain perceiving something as a threat and finding a way to protect you from that threat. Pain is the result of more than an injury or overworking on one place.

Pain relies on a context, meaning that the circumstances in your daily life can provoke or diminish pain. Your thoughts and feelings are as much of a part of the context of your pain an anything else.

Didn’t you ever wonder why some days you have a pain and on other days its just not there?

When you feel pain, discomfort or difficulties, you are attracted to it. It demands your attention. By shifting your attention and altering how you move, you can significantly reduce your pain or discomfort and even get rid of it completely

6.    BREATHING WITH MORE OF YOURSELF.  Your breathing is a much of a habit as anything else you do.  You tend to breath the same way no matter what you are doing or how you are today.  With pregnancy breathing in your habitual way no longer seems to work as well.

TRY THIS:  Sit comfortably on the floor with the soles of your feet touching and lean back on your hands for support.  Inhale filling up your chest with air, gently without any force.  Do 5-6 breaths like in this way.  Now again, inhale filling up the right side of your chest with air 5-6 times.  Now do the same into the left side of your chest.  Do it 5-6 times trying to fill the space under your right armpit with air.  Now do it 5-6 times into the left armpit.  Breath into these different places, circling around, from one place to another.

You can explore all these ideas in much more depth with even greater results by buying Pregnant Pauses. 

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EASE PAIN DURING PREGNANCY WITH SIX SIMPLE EXERCISES (5 OF 6)

6 WAYS TO DEAL WITH PREGNANCY PAIN

Here is the fifth of six ways to help you with pregnancy pain…check in next week for more!

Pain is a signal about how you may be misusing your self.

Everyone gets pain, but during pregnancy, with all the dramatic changes that occur, you need more means to deal with pain when it shows up.

The most recent research on pain shows that it is more than just the place that hurts. It is your brain perceiving something as a threat and finding a way to protect you from that threat. Pain is the result of more than an injury or overworking on one place.

Pain relies on a context, meaning that the circumstances in your daily life can provoke or diminish pain. Your thoughts and feelings are as much of a part of the context of your pain an anything else.

Didn’t you ever wonder why some days you have a pain and on other days its just not there?

When you feel pain, discomfort or difficulties, you are attracted to it. It demands your attention. By shifting your attention and altering how you move, you can significantly reduce your pain or discomfort and even get rid of it completely

5.    A NEW AND MORE EFFECTIVE WAY TO DO KEGEL EXERCISES.  Kegel exercises are relatively easy.  Yet some still find it confusing and hard to find.

TRY THIS:  Sit with soles of your feet touching and lean back on your hands.  Gently rock your pelvis forward and back a very small amount.  As your pelvis rolls back gently do your Kegel, tightening your pelvic floor.  Then as you roll your pelvis forward, even more gently push a little down on your pelvic floor.  Go back and forth, rolling your pelvis back while contracting your pelvic floor and rolling your pelvis forward while very gently pushing down into your pelvic floor.

CHECK IN NEXT WEEK FOR EXERCISE #6

EASE PAIN DURING PREGNANCY WITH SIX SIMPLE EXERCISES (4 OF 6)

6 WAYS TO DEAL WITH PREGNANCY PAIN

Here is the fourth of six ways to help you with pregnancy pain…check in next week for more!

Pain is a signal about how you may be misusing your self.

Everyone gets pain, but during pregnancy, with all the dramatic changes that occur, you need more means to deal with pain when it shows up.

The most recent research on pain shows that it is more than just the place that hurts. It is your brain perceiving something as a threat and finding a way to protect you from that threat. Pain is the result of more than an injury or overworking on one place.

Pain relies on a context, meaning that the circumstances in your daily life can provoke or diminish pain. Your thoughts and feelings are as much of a part of the context of your pain an anything else.

Didn’t you ever wonder why some days you have a pain and on other days its just not there?

When you feel pain, discomfort or difficulties, you are attracted to it. It demands your attention. By shifting your attention and altering how you move, you can significantly reduce your pain or discomfort and even get rid of it completely

4. MOVING FROM THE GROUND: One thing you do all time, with out realizing it, is when you move in one direction, something moves in the opposite direction. Once you realize this you can really change how you do things and life can get a lot easier.

TRY THIS: Sit in a chair, towards the edge of the chair. Think about where your feet are placed. Make sure they are in a place that you could come to standing. When you come to standing, deliberately push your feet into the ground, as if you were trying to get the floor to push you up to stand.

CHECK IN NEXT WEEK FOR EXERCISE #5

EASE PAIN DURING PREGNANCY WITH SIX SIMPLE EXERCISES (3 OF 6)

6 WAYS TO DEAL WITH PREGNANCY PAIN

Here is the third of six ways to help you with pregnancy pain…check in next week for more!

Pain is a signal about how you may be misusing your self.

Everyone gets pain, but during pregnancy, with all the dramatic changes that occur, you need more means to deal with pain when it shows up.

The most recent research on pain shows that it is more than just the place that hurts. It is your brain perceiving something as a threat and finding a way to protect you from that threat. Pain is the result of more than an injury or overworking on one place.

Pain relies on a context, meaning that the circumstances in your daily life can provoke or diminish pain. Your thoughts and feelings are as much of a part of the context of your pain an anything else.

Didn’t you ever wonder why some days you have a pain and on other days its just not there?

When you feel pain, discomfort or difficulties, you are attracted to it. It demands your attention. By shifting your attention and altering how you move, you can significantly reduce your pain or discomfort and even get rid of it completely

3. INITIATING FROM DIFFERENT PLACES  Your habits dictate how you move and can result in pain or discomfort. By starting an action from a different place you evoke a completely different use of your muscles, your skeleton and your brain. When you do an action from different starting places you actually give other places in your self a rest.

TRY THIS: If you are reaching up for something on a shelf in front of you, you initially reach starting with your arm. Reach again, this time starting the action in your ribs. And reach again letting your chest move first. And once more, reach, lengthening the whole front of your self as you do it.

CHECK IN NEXT WEEK FOR EXERCISE #4

EASE PAIN DURING PREGNANCY WITH SIX SIMPLE EXERCISES (2 OF 6)

6 WAYS TO DEAL WITH PREGNANCY PAIN

Here is the second of six ways to help you with pregnancy pain…check in next week for more!

Pain is a signal about how you may be misusing your self.

Everyone gets pain, but during pregnancy, with all the dramatic changes that occur, you need more means to deal with pain when it shows up.

The most recent research on pain shows that it is more than just the place that hurts. It is your brain perceiving something as a threat and finding a way to protect you from that threat. Pain is the result of more than an injury or overworking on one place.

Pain relies on a context, meaning that the circumstances in your daily life can provoke or diminish pain. Your thoughts and feelings are as much of a part of the context of your pain an anything else.

Didn’t you ever wonder why some days you have a pain and on other days its just not there?

When you feel pain, discomfort or difficulties, you are attracted to it. It demands your attention. By shifting your attention and altering how you move, you can significantly reduce your pain or discomfort and even get rid of it completely

Here is the second of 6 simple exercises you can do when you have pain and want to move more easily.

2. USING MORE OF YOURSELF. In everything you do, all of you is involved…all the time…you just don’t notice it. By distributing what you are doing through more of your self you take the pressure off a place and can finder greater ease and comfort.

TRY THIS: If your lower back hurts and you think of lengthening in the front of you, as mentioned above, you can also distribute the workload by moving your chest upward and forward. You can open the front of your hips joints (where your leg meets your torso). This way, when you arch your back, more of you participates and there is less strain in your lower back.

CHECK IN NEXT WEEK FOR EXERCISE #3