Newly Postnatal
Round of Applause, you're a Mamma bear now!
So much focus in early motherhood is on your baby, but you're special too!
Needing to be a morning lark, a night owl, and some form of bleary-eyed Pigeon the rest of the time feels like it will go on forever! Quite often kinks and aches and pains develop from the repetitive nature of feeding, changing, winding, and settling small babies. There is a fabulous series of gentle movements to ease out some of those kinks, 'Back to Feeling Good', which will help your body to move with more ease. Give them a try, repeat them as often as you like, sneak a few in during tummy time!
When things start getting back on an even keel, you're getting some sleep, a sort of schedule settles in, it’s time to start on your 'Mojo Finding Mission' package.
It’s heartening to reconnect with your body, part by part, figure out where your strengths are and what needs some work. We're all individuals, everyone will take something different from this workshop series, you will know what's normal, what's not, what's common, and ideas for repairing and/or monitoring. There's an accompanying exercise video for each workshop to find, strengthen and rock each area!
What do you get when you work with me?
You will get a physio approach and advice on whole-body recovery, all for the price of one physio 1:1 assessment. You may well need to zero in on specialist individual treatment for certain parts, particularly pelvic floor health but coming to that process armed with knowledge and motivation that you gain from my whole body approach helps get the very most from these individual sessions with these wonderful professionals.
Come join me!
Stages Involved in Postnatal Recovery
Stage 1: Rest and Find your Breath.
Stage 2: Re-Introduce yourself to new Mum Inner and Outer you, and your muscles too!
Stage 3: Repair, Restore, Re-engage find your mojo.
Stage 4: Rebuild from Foot Foundations all the way to your Mum of the Year Crown!
We have several different packages that can help you through the stages!
Finding your way as a new Momma Bear
(This will ease you into and guide you through Stage 1 & 2.)
I remember the feeling very well of everything being a bit squishy, soft but kind of tight too with achy pain in your back, neck, shoulders, and hips, even your thumbs and wrists bother sometimes. I also recall wondering 'will I ever get back to normal?', and feeling jealous of women out running in the sunshine, wishing it could be me!
Course:
Back to Feeling Good Package
You will get back here, but it’s a slow and steady march. Allowing your body to recover without straining, giving your body time to knit back together naturally is the goal.
Finding your way as a new Momma Bear is part instinct, part trial and error, and sometimes finding a book/website whose advice chimes with you can help too.
I'll take the guesswork out of your recovery! You don't need to get psyched up to do a heavy workout here. Follow along with each video, explore, connect with your body, ease your aches and pains, and ready your body for the next stage.
You will get 4 x 25minute pre-recorded videos with feel-good routines spotlighting different issues that come up during this period.
You can revisit these as many times as you like!
Understanding what has changed in your body
(This will help with Stages 3 & 4.)
If you feel your pelvic floor squeezy contractions and breathing are going well and you're walking happily 30-60 mins a day, you can start your mojo finding mission, your Momma Bear honey!
You can expect to get a little bit sweaty and to start strengthening your muscles.
The frame on which our muscles act is really important, as are the core muscles that hold us together. I will show you how to get set up right and address any underlying areas like rib flare, shallow or reversed breathing pattern, stiff inflexible feet, calf, and hamstring muscles which all show up during pregnancy.
Workshop & Exercise Video:
Mojo Finding Mission Package
This will be 6 weekly workshops that build on each other with a mix of learning and doing, getting your frame right and strengthening from head to toe, inside to out!
The learning part is understanding what has changed in your body during pregnancy and how to repair specific things. You may very well find bits of you that haven't really worked well for years thanks to desk sitting and commuting. I'll show you that it’s easy to fit little bits of repairing, re-engaging, and restoring into your day!
The doing is an accompanying workout video that shows you how to put it all together.
The Daddy Bear Blockbuster Basics!
1 hour pre-recorded video with self-care body hacks for Dads with new babies, how to assist Mama Bear to the max, and encouragement to 'Do your thing'!
Daddy Bear - Bare Essentials for Blokes with Babies.
I've watched my husband Tony come to grips (literally) with our four babies. My advice-giving credentials to Dads are hard-won!
Tony frequently received my caring and instructive feedback about standing better when holding the baby, or how to bend from the hips when using the changing table or sitting supported when feeding, just so he wouldn't be moaning about having a sore back, shoulder, or neck to add to my to-do list!
No one mentioned nagging! I'll pass on these important nuggets of gold advice to you too. He also taught me that letting go of some of my control, letting him find his own way of doing things even though they were different to mine paved the way for a more harmonious relationship and life. And yes I'll admit it, he was often right and his way worked very well also. Want to know more? Jump in.
Daddy Bear & Baby Cub Message Course
Daddy Bear & Baby Cub Message Course
More information - coming soon.
What People Are Saying
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"I attended Aileen's ante- and post-natal pool classes in my first pregnancy and was so disappointed that they couldn't run due to the pandemic restrictions in my second pregnancy. I was delighted when she ran a new online post-natal course that could be done from home. The classes brought my attention back to my body and identified the areas that needed the most work after having my second baby. Aileen has a great skill in getting you to think about and focus on repairing areas that you won't even have been aware need attention. Her tips in activating and strengthening your pelvic floor are incredibly helpful and her experience as both a physiotherapist and mother really come to the fore throughout the classes. It was great to connect with other new mums virtually in a relaxed online environment and be reminded that all of our bodies and recoveries are different! A few months on, I'm still using Aileen's exercises throughout the day and feel that my body is more resilient having taken part in the course."
— Aoibhinn
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“I attended Aileen’s aqua pregnancy classes and also an online post-natal recovery programme. Both were excellent! Aileen is knowledgeable, approachable and makes the exercise interesting and fun! It was great to have such expertise and advice along the way during pregnancy and post-pregnancy and to be able to ask any question about my body and receive helpful and expert advice. The pregnancy classes gave me great tips and ideas for labor, which as a first-time mum was really helpful. The post-pregnancy class gave me so much information about my body and recovery that I never knew about! The stretching and exercises could be incorporated into everyday life, which was great, as with a new baby I really didn’t see how I could fit it into the day! Overall I’d highly recommend Aileen’s classes.”
- Sharon.
