08/27/2026
The best time to start birth-prep bodywork is before you’re pregnant.
Before there’s a baby taking up space, I want to know how you take up space.
How does your rib cage move?
Where does your pelvis rotate easily?
Where do you always hold tension?
What happens through your diaphragm, abdominal wall, sacrum and pelvic floor when you breathe and move?
Pregnancy asks all of those tissues to adapt around a rapidly growing uterus.
And then people arrive at 36 or 37 weeks asking me to “flip the baby.”
😂 Babe. I wish you came at 20 weeks!
Around 30–33 weeks, there’s still a beautiful relationship between baby’s size and the fluid/space available to them. That’s a lovely window to work with maternal posture, tissue mobility, pelvic space and fetal positioning.
I’m also paying attention long before anyone calls baby’s position a problem.
Only feeling kicks on one side.
One-sided hip pain.
P***c symphysis pain.
Tailbone pain.
Heartburn.
Trouble taking a full breath.
Bladder pressure.
These can all happen in healthy pregnancies.
But common doesn’t mean meaningless, and common doesn’t mean you just have to tolerate it.
They tell me something about how your body is accommodating pregnancy and where movement or space may be limited.
Pregnancy bodywork should involve far more than lying on your side while someone avoids your belly.
And when baby is breech, transverse or persistently tucked into one particular spot, I’m less interested in forcing baby to move and more interested in:
Why does that space feel best to them?
Birth preparation can start months before labour.
Ideally, we start learning your body before conception—when there’s no deadline!
See you in session
