Watch the video HERE. Are you waddling instead of walking? Hi, I’m Katie of Body in Motion Pilates. I’m a pre & postnatal pilates teacher and I’m here to help you go beyond exercise modification and actually train for birth. ~The pregnancy duck waddle~ ~The washing machine~ Typically, these creative forms of pregnancy walking don’t begin until the 3rd trimester, but if you start being aware of how you’re moving now, you can avoid it altogether. Let’s start by looking at the d

This is the sixth post (Week 15 in the series "What you don't expect when you're expecting". First off, what is diastasis recti? DR (I’m gonna be like all the cool researchers and abbreviate, because diastasis recti is a lot to type) is the widening and thinning of the connective tissue around and between (the linea alba) your 6-pack. It can occur for a number of reasons, but most notably, it happens during pregnancy. TIP: Click any of the following Myths to read more about t