By Kim Vopni, The Vagina Coach — Certified Pelvic Floor Fitness Specialist · Published January 10, 2020
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Most women can safely resume sex after baby once cleared at their six-week postpartum checkup, but comfort depends more on pelvic floor healing, core reconnection, and communicat...
By Kim Vopni, The Vagina Coach — Certified Pelvic Floor Fitness Specialist · Published January 9, 2020
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New dads support recovery best by protecting rest rather than rushing it. Draw her a bath, use your muscles to lift and move her so her healing core does not have to, tell her oft...
By Kim Vopni, The Vagina Coach — Certified Pelvic Floor Fitness Specialist · Published Jan 8, 2020
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The safest heart-healthy exercise during pregnancy is low-impact and pelvic-floor-friendly: walking, swimming, squatting, and birth-ball movements like hovering and pelvic rocking. Ai...
By Kim Vopni, The Vagina Coach — Certified Pelvic Floor Fitness Specialist · Published January 7, 2020
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Pfilates — short for Pelvic Floor Pilates — is a pelvic floor training program created by urogynecologist Dr. Bruce Crawford that layers a voluntary kegel onto the ten movements t...
By Kim Vopni, The Vagina Coach — Certified Pelvic Floor Fitness Specialist · Published January 6, 2020
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Preparing for birth with exercise means learning to relax your pelvic floor as well as contract it, practising the core breath, and rehearsing the positions and movements you will...
By Kim Vopni, The Vagina Coach — Certified Pelvic Floor Fitness Specialist · Published January 5, 2020
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Yes — leaking during CrossFit is common, but it is never normal. It's a signal that your pelvic floor can't manage the speed, load, and intra-abdominal pressure of high-intensity tr...
By Kim Vopni, The Vagina Coach — Certified Pelvic Floor Fitness Specialist · Published January 4, 2020
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Midwives treat birth as a normal, healthy process. They offer continuity of care, a choice of home or hospital birth, hands-on perineal protection during pushing, and postpartum h...
By Kim Vopni, The Vagina Coach — Certified Pelvic Floor Fitness Specialist · Published January 3, 2020
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A doula is a trained, non-clinical birth companion who supports you prenatally, through labour and into early motherhood. Continuous doula support is linked to shorter labours wit...
By Kim Vopni, The Vagina Coach — Certified Pelvic Floor Fitness Specialist · Published Jan 2, 2020
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The best way to recover from a C-section is to protect your incision early: wear supportive abdominal garments, rest and avoid lifting anything heavier than your baby for several week...
By Kim Vopni, The Vagina Coach — Certified Pelvic Floor Fitness Specialist · Published January 1, 2020
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The best baby shower gifts support the mom’s body, not just the nursery. Practical, out-of-the-box choices — an EPI-NO childbirth trainer, organic pregnancy tea, doula services, p...
