Cat Cow

After talking with other pregnant women and hearing about their experiences, I have realized that I am blessed to have a great pregnancy experience. If I had one complaint, it would be low back pain especially in the early morning and evenings. My midwife tells me that I have a very accommodating pelvis. The baby sits very low for the most part and as a result, I can feel the pressure in my lower back. This has been the case since week 8 or 9.

A few things have helped to alleviate the pain: prenatal yoga classes, a warm shower, and a few exercises that I do when I can remember to do them (or when the pain really hits). They say that walking and light exercise is supposed to help but walking does not work for me. I have been able to stay active and meet new people by participating in classes with Oh Baby! Fitness. A couple of the exercises that help are tailor sitting while at home (basically sitting 'Indian style') and pelvic rocking (or cat cow for all of my yoga followers). Both of these exercises relieve tension on the lower back, relieve pressure and encourage the baby to move forward.

Hopefully when the baby gets a little bigger, I wont have the same issues. Right now Pooka is the size of a stalk of corn (so says my babybump app on iphone). Maybe in the next couple of weeks!