1:1 Postural Assessment & Body Balancing
Balance your unique body for a more comfortable pregnancy & easier birth with the Body Ready Method®
Would you like to experience a more comfortable pregnancy, and help yourself to have an easier, more empowered birth?
Optimal body preparation for birth with Body Ready Method® to balance, align, mobilise and strengthen your unique body - this fully individualised support is the best you can get!
The pelvis gets a lot of attention when it comes to birth, but the reality is our whole body impacts birth. Posture, body alignment and daily movement patterns affect comfort in pregnancy, baby's position, and the ease with which baby can navigate their way through your pelvis. This can be referred to as pregnancy and birth biomechanics
The great news is that there is a lot you can do to impact your body balance for birth. Adding intentional, targeted movement and exercise to your pregnancy routine will really stack to the odds in your favour for the birth you want.
Small things can make a big a difference when you have the right support!
Many things in life can affect our body, and our pelvic balance.
Can you relate to any of these?​
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Poor posture/leg crossing habit
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Desk based job/lots of sitting/driving
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past injuries anywhere in your body
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Stress - which is often carried in the body​
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carrying a toddler on your hip​
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​Had a previous birth that was slow or particularly difficult/painful
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Had a labour where you stopped dilating or ended up with a Caesarean due to slow progress
All of these things can throw off your pelvic balance and alignment, which can then affect baby's ability to position well, and move easily through the pelvis to birth - Birth Biomechanics can benefit EVERYONE! ​
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It is very important to know that there is no judgment or blame with any of these factors, just the power to know there is so much you can do to work toward more optimal alignment and balance.
Body Balancing
One-off Assessment
Your dedicated appointment with experienced midwife and Body Ready Method® trained pregnancy body balancing specialist will include:
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An initial evaluation using the Body Ready Method™ framework to assess your posture, alignment, and how your body moves throughout different positions and activities, to identify potential imbalances or restrictions.
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Identifying areas where targeted, and intentional exercises and movement practices can be used to improve pregnancy comfort and an optimised birthing experience.
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A personalised plan will be generated for you based on your unique body and movement patterns.
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Guidance on breathing to optimise core function and to balance the nervous system.
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Sessions take place either in the comfort of your home, or in my studio (your choice!)
Your investment
£90
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Your session will last approx 90 mins
Please get in touch via the 'book' button to contact so that we can schedule your session - payment link will then be sent.
Body Balancing
Support package
​​This package of support includes the first session as detailed above, then 3 subsequent 1 hour sessions to review progress, reassess, and amend the recommended activities and exercises to meet the changing needs and alignment for your body as your pregnancy progresses.
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It is ideal to have your initial assessment early in pregnancy, with a follow-up session in each of your three trimesters of pregnancy.
Even if you have come across the benefits of this work later in your pregnancy, don't worry! You can space the sessions out over the remaining weeks of your pregnancy. You will still get amazing benefit from this.
Your investment
£245
Package of 4 sessions
(total of 4.5hrs)
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Please get in touch via the 'book' button to contact so that we can schedule your sessions - payment link will then be sent.
What is Birth Biomechanics?
Why is it important?
Simply put, biomechanics is the biology and mechanisms of movement.
For birth, this relates to the incredible interaction between the mothers body and the baby's body, as baby gets ready for birth, and then navigates their way to the outside world.
Both bodies are perfectly designed for this process. The maternal pelvis changes in pregnancy to allow more space and mobility, and baby's skull is designed to mould to pass through the pelvis more easily. Despite this beautiful design, our modern lifestyles of less movement, reclined postures, more stress - to mention just a few - have an impact on our body's ability to make full use of these pregnancy adaptations when it comes to birth.
Interventions in childbirth are often required as a result of biomechanical issues, preventing labour from flowing as nature intended - such as babies starting labour in less than optimal positions, and tight, or imbalanced pelvic ligaments preventing optimal space in the pelvis from being utilised for baby. On the flip side, interventions can also be the cause of biomechanical issues, by interrupting the natural flow and timing of birth.
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Having an understanding of biomechanics for birth means that positional changes and techniques can be use to encourage babies to position themselves more optimally before or during birth, and help them to rotate and turn to navigate the pelvis, and by supporting the woman so that birth can unfold physiologically.
Knowledge of the processes of biomechanics can help to identify and piece together clues of a suboptimal position of baby, or other reasons for delays in birth progress, and how these can be helped to resolve, improving the chance of avoiding more medicalised intervention. .
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People would be forgiven for thinking that understanding of birth biomechnics, and experience of using biomechanical positioning techniques for birth would be common knowledge among maternity professionals working in this area, but sadly in most cases these skills have been lost over time, to the point where many have not even heard of the concept of birth biomechanics, so empowering yourself with this wisdom is important.
Knowing about techniques that can be used in labour if needed is very useful, but I am a firm believer that preparing your body throughout pregnancy is what really makes the difference.
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