Episode 47: UP Mums Holistic Postnatal Program with Paula Hindle
Release Date: 05/25/2023
Episode 63: Letting it Go with Pregnancy and Birth Coach Philippa Cox
Running to the Core Podcast
With over 20 years as a global midwife Philippa Cox shares her insights on "Letting it Go" and some of the ways she helps pregnant women to do this, to prepare for labour and motherhood. Philippa shares practical ways to work on this during your day, beginning with developing even a 5 minute habit in your commitment to continue with ways that work for you. There are many layers to letting go, as you prepare for labour, birth and motherhood, some physical, some emotional. Philippa (Pippa) explores some of these, such as breathing out what is not serving us. Philippa is the author of a...
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Episode 62: Revisiting Breathing as a Desert Island Exercise with Carrie Hall PT
Running to the Core Podcast
In this podcast we revisit talking about Breathing as a Desert Island Exercise with Carrie Hall, previously a guest in episodes 48 and 50. Carrie highlights the benefits of breathing as an exercise on multiple areas of the body, and runs through some practical ways to firstly become aware of your own breathing pattern, which she gives individual cues to with her clients. She talks through one way to focus on developing your breathing awareness, including the movement of your ribcage, your breathing diaphragm and your pelvic diaphragm (pelvic floor). You can listen to the first of the...
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Episode 61: Pregnancy Abdominal Bracing
Running to the Core Podcast
This is an introduction to what is called Pregnancy Abdominal Bracing, with a short story about how one pregnant mum had less round ligament pain when walking once she learned how to do this exercise. One of the purposes of learning pregnancy abdominal bracing is to support the weight of the uterus as your baby or babies grow during your pregnancy. Specific focus is placed on the lower parts of your abdominal muscle wall, and this can be done while you are breathing normally. It should never feel uncomfortable, strained, cause any pain or any feeling of it being "off" to you. For more...
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Episode 60: Does Your Pelvic Floor Go Up or Down?
Running to the Core Podcast
Studies have shown that not all women will do their pelvic floor exercises effectively, and in fact, sometimes the muscles have been shown to be going down, instead of up, for some women. As you can't see your pelvic floor muscles, it can be hard to tell, so when it is possible, seeking further advice from a pelvic health physiotherapist, especially if you are unsure, can help you to clarify how well you are using your muscles. In this solo podcast, Dianne outlines some basics that you can use as a starting point to connect to your pelvic floor awareness. While there are many other...
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Episode 59: How is your pelvis levelling?
Running to the Core Podcast
Often postnatal mums when asked to stand on one leg or test a lunge out for the first time, are surprised at how wobbly or unsteady they feel. As a starting point, gaining awareness, either during your pregnancy or after the birth, of your pelvis position is one step towards postnatal returning to fitness and running. One of my friends who returned to running triathlons after she had fully rehabilitated, had a photo taken early in the running leg and again later and the position of her pelvis when she was starting to fatigue more, was a lot more dropped from side to side with each step....
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Episode 58: Preferential Recruitment. What is it?
Running to the Core Podcast
In this solo podcast episode, Dianne talks about the term Preferential Recruitment. Preferential recruitment suggests that when you are lying down on your back to do a sit up or curl up, the rectus abdominis muscles, especially the upper segments, will work "preferentially" when you lift your head up. This is a term Dianne first heard over 20 years ago in a presentation by Physiotherapist Caroline Dowd, in South Australia. Consider how much your whole abdominal muscle wall has changed during your pregnancy, with the weight of your growing baby or babies inside the uterus being taken by...
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Episode 57: Postnatal Tension Releases using a Breathing Out Focus
Running to the Core Podcast
After a summer pause break, Dianne returns with some solo podcasts to give practical tips for instant use. Being a Mum often means that you need to be in a state of awareness and alertness on what's going on in your family with your children and / or baby, a lot of the day. Daily stressors can build up and last year in a podcast with Dr Cate Howell (number 54), on her book The Flourishing Woman, Dr Cate talked about "stress buckets". Carrying these "stress buckets" around can lead to muscle tension, tiredness and "stress effects" when they get full to overflowing, where "one more drop"...
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Episode 56: How to be a 'cycle breaker' in your parenting with Mindfulness at Play, with Psychologist Angela North
Running to the Core Podcast
Angela North joins Dianne for a second podcast about Mindfulness at Play: Parenting healthy, happy children with old wisdom and new science, a book co-written with Dr Stephen McKenzie, published by Exisle Publishing in 2023. With 30 years of experience working with children, adolescents and their families, Angela employs play therapy, and is passionate about sharing strategies with parents, so that they may respond therapeutically to their own children’s needs. We discuss “Our child, our mirror”, which Angela writes about in the book. If we had a difficult time in our childhood, then we...
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Episode 55: The first 40 postnatal days impact the next 40 years - with Kate from The Mamas Alchemist
Running to the Core Podcast
In this podcast Kate Thomson from The Mamas Alchemist talks about how in her role as a Registered Midwife and a Chinese Medical Practitioner, she supports women holistically during their pregnancy and after the birth. In Chinese Medicine, the first 40 days after the birth are considered to impact the next 40 years of a mother’s life. Honoring the value of rest, harnessing support from partners, friends, family and available services and nutrition all play an essential role in postnatal recovery. Kate suggests from 34 weeks of pregnancy to double batch when cooking, to place one meal in...
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Episode 54: The Flourishing Woman - A mental health and wellbeing guide with Dr Cate Howell
Running to the Core Podcast
Dr Cate Howell talks about her new book The Flourishing Woman - A mental health and well being guide, recently published by Exisle Publishing. Dr Cate Howell is a GP, therapist, researcher, educator and author with over 40 years of training and experience in the health sphere. She is passionate about the areas of mental health, wellbeing and counselling and currently, Cate is mostly involved in education and writing related in these areas. She has travelled internationally to present research findings and has been published in a number of academic journals. The author of five books, Cate was...
info_outlinePaula Hindle Cofounded Unlocking Her Potential with Olympic Gold Medalist Swimmer Libby Trickett and joins Dianne to discuss their UP Mums Holistic Postnatal Program. Paula is an Holistic Physio and Women's Health coach and Yoga teacher.
Through the UP Mums Program Libby and Paula aim to provide a supportive community through their facebook membership, while helping you to enjoy Home Workouts that are Physio instructed Strength, Cardio and Core workouts.
Their membership platform is beautifully layed out with easy to access sections, including their UP Mum Chill Zone, UpMum Chats and UPMum Postnatal Yoga Series.
Libby and Paula have given a 30% discount off the full price to our listeners. Normally $149 you can use the code pregnancycentre at the checkout to buy the program for $99.
Thank you Libby and Paula!
To head over to the program page visit Unlocking Her Potential - Programs.
Use the code: pregnancycentre
To listen to Paula on our previous podcast together - see episode 40 on Wisdom from the Journey.
For further information visit www.thepregnancycentre.com.au