Mama Bear Birth Services
Pilates fitness, Childbirth Classes & Birth Support.
Mama Bear Foundations
Mama Bear Birth Services offers advocacy for every mama! Every service includes listening to and understanding your needs in order to personalize your prenatal preparation and birth experience to make it treasured and memorable. Using effective, evidence based, techniques, you have the option of different support levels from pregnancy, all the way to the incredible moment when you first hold your newborn, and beyond!
Mama Bear Birth Services specializes in preparing your body for the phenomenal, physical event of labor, through pilates. With evidence based childbirth education and birth coaching (doula support), you will also prepare mentally and emotionally, for a practical and positive approach to the changes of pregnancy, childbirth labor, the postpartum period and your transition to parenthood.
Birth is a normal, natural process. EVERY BIRTH IS INCREDIBLE. Every woman should receive positive, loving, support that implements effective coping strategies and promotes the least birthing interventions as appropriate. Mama Bear Birth Services supports however or wherever you choose to give birth and focuses on preparing you mentally, emotionally, and physically from pregnancy to postpartum.
Plan with Mama Bear Birth Services today, to maintain a strong, comfortable body through pregnancy changes, and attain a beautiful birth memory.
Pilates Approach to Birth
Pregnancy changes women’s bodies in many ways and pre and postnatal Pilates is a healthful way to help you navigate those changes. We focus on core stability, strength and overall fitness to help your body manage these changes and prepare for the rigors of labor and childbirth, and the demands of the months to follow. You will learn how to activate your muscles properly, which will build strength, flexibility and an overall more comfortable pregnancy, labor and postpartum recovery. The classes will make your pregnancy more enjoyable by helping boost your immune system, circulation, and energy levels, as well as help you feel better prepared for labor. Women that regularly exercise their core muscles can expect to experience shorter labors and reduced lower back and pelvic pain. What’s more, attending classes throughout pregnancy will help you get back in shape faster after childbirth. So whether you want to prepare for labor, or heal and rebuild muscle, pilates is the perfect exercise to safely strengthen the entire body.
10 Benefits of Pre/postnatal pilates
1. STRENGTHEN YOUR STOMACH AND GLUTEAL MUSCLES: less likely to develop pain in your pelvis and lower back
2. REDUCES BACK PAIN & SUPPORTS your changing PREGNANCY & POSTPARTUM POSTURE3. STRENGTHEN YOUR PELVIC FLOOR: Think support to the bladder, bowel, abdominals & orgasms4. CONTROL YOUR BREATHING5. IMPROVE BALANCE6. REDUCE STRAIN WHEN YOU GET IN & OUT OF BED7. MAINTAIN HEALTHY WEIGHT8. STRENGTHEN THE LEGS9. RELAXATION10. SPEED UP RECOVERY POST-PARTUMThe Role of a Doula (Birth Coach)
Doulas or birth coaches, are trained professionals who provide ongoing emotional, informational and physical support to families expecting babies, so that they may have the healthiest, most satisfying experience possible. Doulas are part of the maternal health care team.
Doulas do not provide medical treatment.
10 Benefits of Doula Support
Client-centered care and advocacy
Improves birth outcomes
Reduces fear and anxiety
Reduces need for medication during labor
Reduces needs for medical interventions in labor
Reduces cesarean births
Increases breastfeeding proficiency
Increases women’s feelings of empowerment and satisfaction
Decreases birth trauma
Reduces the impact of racism and racial bias in health care on pregnant people of color
Brijett's 2nd baby, born in August 2020