My Birth Story: From Home Birth to C-Section. I’m currently pregnant with my third, and it’s got me thinking about my first pregnancy and birth with my eldest son. I don't think I've ever told the story in full, (and how I so royally fucked it up), so here it is. In a word: it was a shit-show. I was totally inflexible about my "birth plan", and things went fully tits up. Part One: Leading up to the birth I was dead set on a blissful home birth with zero medical intervention,

At least once a week I get a message from someone saying: "I'm pregnant! How should I change my training programme" You don't need to change ANYTHING. In the beginning. Exercise in the first trimester doesn't increase OR decrease the risk of miscarriage or complications or birth outcomes in any way. And exercising in your FIRST trimester massively increases the chances that you will exercise in the second and third trimesters - it’s much easier to “keep going” than it is to “

I'm having another c-section and NOT trying for a VBAC - here's why

If you've been told that you should stop doing planks during pregnancy - it's more nuanced than that

This might seem like a strange topic, and it may not seem that important, BUT, establishing good toilet habits is incredibly important...

When we talk about pregnancy exercise, we usually create false dichotomies around "safe" exercises and "unsafe" exercises. The truth is, it's more of a continuum. Pregnancy is dynamic, and requires modifications throughout to account for the physiological and anatomical changes. These changes don't happen overnight, they are imperceptible from one day to the next. So many women are fearful when they enter their first trimester - the assumption is that there are certain exerci

If you already lift weights and you want to know if you can continue to build muscle mass during pregnancy, this blog post will tell you everything you need to know (and what most trainers don't even know). No BS and all the nuance.

There are a few things that are MORE important than training your core during pregnancy

Women are obsessed with doing "core" exercises, and I get asked almost daily what exercises you should do for your core during pre

Now that I'm postpartum I want to share with you a retrospective view of my training through pregnancy. I write "programme" in inverted...