Tips for a Healthy Pregnancy

http://www.drnorthrup.com/womenshealth/healthcenter/topic_details.php?topic_id=132

from the website of Christiane Northrup, MD

...she is one of my favorite mind-body-spirit doctors in the U.S.
I often refer to her book, Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom.

Of course, I would add prenatal yoga to her tips list (but I am biased ;-)).

But I am convinced my prenatal yoga practice helped me to have a relatively easy and quick first (unmedicated) birth. Practicing hip openers in yoga and squats both helped with the openness and flexibility of my pelvis for the baby to descend through the birth canal. Yogic centering, breathing, focusing, and relaxing the mind and body ALL help with labor, birth, AND postpartum recovery. In fact, one of my prenatal clients who recently had her baby wrote to tell me that how prenatal yoga helped her the most was in her quick postpartum recovery. Jai! (=Victory) to that!!