Physical Skills Antenatal Class
Event Information
Description
This education Class is for all Pregnant Ladies who want to learn more about how to keep their body healthy during pregnancy. It covers lots of common problems that the pregnant lady may suffer from; Low back pain, pubic pain, hip pain and rib pain. It will discuss why these discomforts occur and what you can do about it to reduce these pains. It will highlight safe and useful exercises and teach you how to do your pelvic floor exercises correctly. It will also highlight the importance of your posture, relaxation and effects of breathing correctly. All these will help you during your pregnancy, labour and beyond.
There is a chance to meet other mums, ask the Physiotherapist questions and you will take some leaflets home to make sure you can remind yourself what you have learnt in the class.
This is just a class for the mums. Best to do between 12-26 weeks pregnant to keep you healthy and pain free but the class can be done at any gestation.
If suffering from intense back pain, please ask midwife or GP to refer you to the Physiotherapy team to come to Pregnant back class.