Labor and the Pilates method

After nine months, the pregnant woman has to face the last part of her pregnancy: childbirth. A few days before, usually, the baby has already been placed down and will undertake, at that moment, the descent down the uterine canal to the outside, towards life. It is considered that a woman begins ch

Giving birth requires a great effort from the mother and the need to live with the pain. Pain provides the mother with information about how the process of giving birth and contractions is developing and how often she tells her when she has to push or push, maintain or help the baby in its descent until the complete exit to the outside world .

What does the Pilates method bring to the pregnant woman during delivery?

A delivery may be fast or it may take hours to get it. For this reason, the mother must be in good physical shape and the Pilates Method can help to achieve it, since it has these benefits: L - The woman will learn to tone her pelvic floor

, to control when she wants to activate it and when he wants to relax him, preventing tears and decreasing the recovery time after childbirth.- It will also get a good state of the abdominals, which will help in the pujos and to make the delivery is faster.- Pilates is a conscious method, which is based on the coordination of movements with breathing,

providing good oxygenation

, greater aerobic and physical capacity. - The woman during childbirth will have resistencia more resistance to cope with itgetting to the time, more control of the situation which will help reduce anxiety and worry that everything will go well.

What is the origin of Pilates? The Pilates method was born at the beginning of the last century by the need of a man, Joseph Humbertus Pilates, to achieve a good physical and mental state, since from infancy he had asthmatic problems and rickets. His interest in the functioning of the human body, led him to develop an exercise chart where he combined oriental principles, such as yoga, with rehabilitative exercises, achieving benefits ranging from postural correction to muscle toning and resistance, elasticity, and thanks to the concentration, to the conscious movement and to the breathing, a knowledge and control over the extraordinary body. Marián Zamora Saborit