23 Feb Preparing For Childbirth & Parenthood

When you are pregnant or parenting, the last thing you need is to suffer from back pain. Learning Alexander Technique is a practical way to help you prepare and learn to cope with the changes to your body as your baby grows and becomes heavier.

By Improving your posture and the way you move you can avoid many health problems caused by pregnancy such as back pain, breathlessness and tiredness.

Learning the technique can also help ease labour, and prepare you for lifting, carrying and playing with your growing baby.

• Avoid Back Pain
• Reduce Breathlessness & Tiredness
• Help Ease Labour & Improve Recovery
• Lift and carry your child without strain

HOW ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE CAN HELP

During Pregnancy: 

By teaching you how to cope with the changes in your body, Alexander Technique lessons can help you to avoid and relieve backache, pain and heaviness in the pelvic area, foot problems, pain in the ribcage, heartburn, breathlessness, varicose veins and fluid retention.

During Childbirth: 

Learning the Alexander Technique can help you to cope with pain and teach you how to breathe deeply and effortlessly. If you choose to have a natural birth you can learn a range of movements and positions which help facilitate and ease natural labour.

 Afterwards: ,Taking lessons in the Alexander Technique after the birth of your baby can help you cope with the pressures of parenthood. You will learn how to bend, lift and carry without strain which is so important as your child grows and becomes heavier.

 Manage Stress

The changes you make will also help you to feel calmer and better able to cope day-to-day. As your posture changes you’ll learn to breath more effectively which helps reduce anxiety. It can help you be less reactive in the way you think and to be more measured in your response to others. Think of it as ‘mindfulness for the body’.