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Being calm and relaxed helps with most things in life, but there are some specific ways you and your baby can benefit from yoga.
Movements and postures
- Help to keep your body in healthy alignment - particularly your spine which supports and lifts your uterus
- Movements to relieve specific problems like heartburn, back pain and swollen ankles
- Healthily tone and stretch pelvic ligaments, encouraging elasticity for birth which can reduce tearing
- Encourage your baby to be in the best position for birth
Breathing techniques
- Help you to relax and sleep
- Bring your awareness into your pelvis and learn how to release
- Encourage full breathing, easing pressure on your heart and stabilising your blood pressure
- Help you breathe effectively through each stage of labour
- Tone your uterus, helping you to relax and contract effectively throughout labour
- Deeply learn breathing techniques so they become 'second nature' when you need them
Relaxation techniques
- Nurture and nourish you and your baby
- Reduce stress and tension, particularly the fear of the unknown for first time mums
- Help to keep blood pressure normal
- Prepare for the birth and feel physically, mentally and emotionally rested
- Help relieve 'sensations' of labour
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There is nothing in the caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly
Richard Buckminster Fuller
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