Pregnancy

Recovery Postpartum, Don’t Wait Until Your Done Having Babies

Recovery postpartum, don’t wait until your done having babies to heal your body postpartum. Enjoy this conversation with my Knocked-Up Fitness® client, Allie, mom of three. She’s an avid runner but started experiencing incontinence postpartum after her first pregnancy. She also started dealing with hip and back pain and found amazing relief when learning how to effectively strengthen her deep core and pelvic floor muscles during pregnancy. 

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Pregnancy

Round Ligament Pain: What it feels like

Round ligament pain during pregnancy is common and happens because your uterus is stretching causing an intense stretch on your round ligament. The round ligament connects from your uterus to your pelvis and as your pregnancy progresses that round ligament is getting stretched and can cause pain and discomfort.

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Pregnancy

Strengthen Your Pelvic Floor Without Kegels

I’m going to tell you something a liiittle controversial, but I’m going to speak up because it needs to be talked about in women’s health. >>Kegels are not an effective way to strengthen your pelvic floor.<< Now, I know that that’s a different take than what you’ve been taught in the past, so let me explain. From what I’ve learned…

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Pregnancy

How to Prepare Your Body for a C-Section

Are you wondering if there’s anything you can do to prepare your body for a C-section? I understand the C-section overwhelm is REAL but I want you to know that there is so much that you can do with movement, breathwork, and mindset before you go into surgery. Not only will the tools that I’m going to teach you today…

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5 AI lessons from pharma world learned during Covid-19

After the rain, comes the rainbow; after the night there’s morning; and, after an ending there’s a new beginning – or so we hope. As the world resets from the aftermath of Covid-19, pharmaceutical industry leaders are taking stock in what they have learned, hoping it will lead to major strides forward and we will […]

Food & Nutrition

We Cooked as a Family Every Day during Quarantine and This Is What I Learned

I’m spending our quarantine time in the kitchen with three small children. I have a confession: I love cooking alone. There is nothing more relaxing to me than spending a weekend afternoon in the kitchen with a podcast and comforting homemade pasta recipe. So the thought of opening up my sacred cooking space to six […]

Relationship

Everything I Know About Love I Learned From Dogs

Through each monumental moment in life, there is something for our dogs to teach us—about love, friendship, family, identity, and how not to get mad when you find the floor covered with flour paw prints. After we lost Indigo, I got a call from the Bed ‘n’ Biscuit. One of their customers was dying, and […]

Health

My Baby Was Born Without An Anus. This Is What I Learned About Advocating For My Child.

When I held my sweet newborn moments after his birth, he was already swaddled. It was only three hours later, after a nurse offered to change his first diaper, that my life-partner Mark and I received the shock of our lives. Our child had no anal opening. Instead, his pale behind was completely smooth. There […]