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Postpartum Exercise: Creating Your 3rd Body
Recently, while talking with some moms in our postpartum exercise class, DTP’s Mom-Baby Fitness™ program, I realized it has been a while since I have addressed the notion of what we call “the 3rd...
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Birth of Pregnancy Exercise: Evolution of DTP
Sometimes it is fun to look back at the long road to the present! Recently, I was interviewed by our local online media outlet (the Branford CT Patch) and was really thrilled with the resulting story....
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Birth is a Motor Skill™
In the contemporary world, we are not as active as previous generations. Few women exercise to the extent required to develop the capacity to withstand the rigors of birth. It is little wonder that so...
View ArticleHow to Get Pregnant — Coaching Topic #1
So let’s get on with the topic of How to Get Pregnant, starting with why do we need to know this? In the past few decades, the average age for a first pregnancy in the U.S. has moved from the mid...
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What is Fetal Programming?
What is fetal programming? Every person living on earth was first exposed to a uterine environment that helped determine their lifetime health and development. The term for this phenomenon is fetal...
View ArticleUpcoming Events
Childbirth Education is underway at the Yale Health Center in New Haven. Moms-to-be and their support person/partner/spouse can now register on-line on our Take a Class page. Location, time, dates and...
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Pregnancy Exercise — The Evolutionary Imperative for Vigorous Activity
This article is from my blog, DancingThruPregnancy on Wordpress. I have long wanted to write this post. Recently two articles appeared in the NY Times prompting me to move forward. One article dealt...
View ArticleIna May’s Guide to Childbirth – book review
Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth by Ina May Gaskin. NY; Bantam, 2003. The physiology of birth is complicated and still not well understood. Our subjective experiences of birth are richly textured....
View ArticleBrain Rules for Babies — book review
Brain Rules for Babies by Dr. John Medina Seattle WA; Pear Press. 2010 I strongly recommend this book and its accompanying website by the author of the NY Times bestseller, Brain Rules....
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DTP Offspring: In the Belly of the Goddess
Cathy Moore CNM, is the founder of In the Belly of the Goddess in the Boston area. She earned her pre/postnatal fitness certification from Dancing thru Pregnancy® in 2006. She used much of what she...
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DTP Offspring: Belly-N-Kicks™
Erika Boom is the founder and president of the Belly-n-Kicks™ (B-n-K™) program, based in Miami FL. She is an ACE certified personal trainer as well as a DTP® certified pre/postnatal fitness trainer....
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Be Prepared for Birth
Whatever the course of your labor and birth, if you are fit and prepared your ability to cope with the intensity of the experience will be a big advantage. Regular aerobic exercise, strength and...
View ArticleDTP Offspring – Renee Crichlow: REAC Fitness
In Part 4 of our continuing series on DTP’s offspring, meet Renee Crichlow, ACSM Certified Personal Trainer from Barbados, whose REAC Fitness business includes Mum-me 2 B Fitness Series (prenatal),...
View ArticleHow to Get Pregnant — Coaching Topic #1
So let’s get on with the topic of How to Get Pregnant, starting with why do we need to know this? In the past few decades, the average age for a first pregnancy in the U.S. has moved from the mid...
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Preparing for Birth Helps Make Motherhood Joyful
Dancing Thru Pregnancy®, Inc. Women’s Health & Fitness Programs founded 1979 MISSION STATEMENT Many important health issues for girls and women involve matters of reproductive health, childbearing,...
View ArticleAbout Pain and Birth
This is excerpted from our Dancing Thru Pregnancy blog. That Was Then… As I became involved in the birthing field, one of the nurse-midwives with whom I was acquainted introduced me to Jung’s...
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DTP Guest Blog — Healthy Start Brooklyn
Healthy Start Brooklyn (HSB) recently added Dancing Thru Pregnancy to its services with terrific results. Find out more about HSB at http://fphny.org/programs/giving-brooklyn-families-a-healthy-start....
View ArticleExercise and Body Trust in Birth
In the generations since birth moved from the home to the hospital setting, it has become less and less frequent that women in developed nations see birth first hand and accept it as a natural part of...
View ArticleComing in 2014: Estonia!
Keep your eyes here for the future listing of our first Eastern European location!
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