Yesterday, Monday September 14th, prenatal classes began at Ishta Yoga Studio. Class runs from 12:30-1:45pm on Mondays and Thursdays. Ishta is located at 56 East 11th St…in the heart of coffee-shop-ville. I must say, there seem to be more college students than pregnant women floating around the immediate neighborhood. However, I know they are out [...]
Today I attended a great workshop on the Tupler Technique here in Brooklyn. Lululemon’s Brooklyn Showroom had Julie Tupler, creator of the Tupler Technique, come and speak about her program, and check out all of our diastases. If you don’t know what diastases is…keep reading–this is super important for pregnant women as well as postpartum [...]
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Breastfeeding is hard. But someone’s got to do it. Who better than us moms? My daughter asked me today what her nipples were for. (She’s almost four) I told her that they were there so that she could feed her babies when she grows up. That answer seemed to please her. She sees me nursing [...]
Now onto the transformation in the medical domain. We visit the doctor’s office on a regular basis, and the rhythm there becomes part of our ritual. Waiting room, weigh-in, blood pressure, urine sample, questions for doctor, sonogram…internal exam. A transformation in the formal education domain occurs. Pregnancy is a time for many women and their [...]
