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Fit To Deliver –<br />
Information for<br />
Expectant and New<br />
Mothers<br />
by Melanie Jung<br />
Are you fit to deliver? You bet!! Your body was<br />
made for this, no worries!<br />
Pregnancy is a miraculous experience and display of<br />
the female body’s wisdom. <strong>The</strong> body, although<br />
naturally designed to experience the tugs and pulls<br />
and stretches of pregnancy, is certainly pushed to<br />
offer this function!<br />
Many women experience very similar signs and<br />
symptoms and sometimes musculoskeletal<br />
conditions such as pelvic misalignment, urinary<br />
incontinence (loss of urine during exercise, cough or<br />
sneeze, etc) joint pain and dysfunction, low back<br />
pain and sciatica.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Canadian Physiotherapy Association provided<br />
this statement: “Between 39% and 61% of women<br />
experience urinary incontinence during their first<br />
pregnancy, and half will remain incontinent at eight<br />
weeks postpartum. One-third of those not<br />
incontinent during pregnancy will develop<br />
incontinence after childbirth.” Pelvic floor exercises<br />
taught by a Physiotherapist, can prevent urinary<br />
incontinence.<br />
Pain of the pelvis and low back are also preventable<br />
before, during and after pregnancy with proper core<br />
exercise technique – no ladies, sit-ups do not<br />
suffice.<br />
You must heed the advice given by Joseph Pilates in<br />
his core exercise education – back “neutral”/straight<br />
and lower abdomen tight and flat (no sucking in!!)<br />
along with some other important points regarding<br />
the pelvic floor, your diaphragm and a muscle in<br />
your back called the Multifidus.<br />
Here is a description of proper initial core<br />
contraction. This must be held as these muscles are<br />
8 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Bulletin</strong> | August 2010 www.thebulletinmagazine.com
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