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Review: Athena Muscle Toner
By Laura Lee Davies on 15/05/2007 01:41:19
Exercising your pelvic floor muscles is important but not easy to get right. Now this handy device can do it for you.
If you have started ante-natal classes or already had your baby, you will know how much importance is placed on you doing your kegel exercises in order to strengthen your pelvic floor muscles. But these exercises are not always easy to get right
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Having an epidural could prevent muscle damage in labour
By Kimberley Smith on 26/08/2010 12:21:43
Epidurals help protect pelvic muscles during birth and reduce chance of incontinence, finds study
Choosing to have an epidural for pain relief while giving birth may help protect your pelvic “levator” muscles. A study of nearly 400 mums has found that there is a lower risk of these muscles being damaged for women who chose to have an epidural
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Know-how: Pelvic Floor Muscles
By Laura Lee Davies on 01/05/2007 00:39:04
You'll hear lots of ante-natal talk about pelvic floor muscle exercises, but what are they and why are they vital?
The vast majority of women are completely unaware of their pelvic floor muscles, until they get pregnant. Unless they have tried the fitness regime pilates – in which core muscles and engagement of the pelvic floor is the basis for all strengthening
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What are Kegel exercises?
By Laura Lee Davies on 10/06/2008 01:14:33
Keeping your pelvic floor muscles toned is important for birth and afterwards. Plus it has long term benefits.
Pelvic floor muscle exercises are otherwise known as Kegel exercises, so named after the doctor who developed them as a way of improving the performance of the set of muscles between the pelvic bones. Why are Kegel exercises important?The pelvic
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Calcium and your baby
By Laura Lee Davies on 24/11/2010 06:53:44
Calcium is important in building bone and muscle strength as your baby grows
will help these bones grow, but at the same time, calcium is an important body ingredient.Calcium also helps his body's muscles operate properly, so that they can grow, contract and relax depending on his needs. Calcium also helps his body's brain
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Ask the...fitness expert
By Anne-Marie Millard on 03/02/2010 12:13:30
What exercises should I do after my baby’s born to get muscle tone back in my stomach?
I’m really worried about getting muscle tone back in my stomach after I give birth. What exercises should I do after my baby’s born – or is there anything I can do now?Camilla, LondonAnne-Marie MillardExercise guru, personal trainer and author
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Review: Body Clock's Femme Elite TENS tiny toner
By Maria Muennich on 16/11/2006 01:41:07
Dinky package offers drug-free pain relief, pelvic floor stimulation and muscle toning all in one for those post-natal black and blues
Femme Elite 3 in 1: Pelvic Floor Stimulator, TENS and muscle toner Easy-to-use, discreet, extremely lightweight and flexible: works well for back pain and effective in stimulating muscles. Cut-off after it has not been in use for five minutes
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Focused fitness: Work those abs
By ThinkBaby on 08/07/2005 17:14:51
If you want to get rid of your post-pregnancy wobbles then it's time to concentrate on those parts that other exercise just hasn't reached - first up, stomach muscles
for you and will help with general weight control, it won’t be doing anything much to tone up your stretched abdominal muscles or those meatier upper arms. What you need to be doing is some targeted muscle work alongside your cardio workouts to lose weight
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The Femme Elite
By ThinkBaby on 02/02/2007 12:14:52
The Femme Elite is designed for all your feminine needs. Using the latest technology, this 3-in-1 pre-set unit can be used for pelvic floor stimulation (PFS), pain relief (TENS) and muscle toning (EMS).
) and muscle toning (EMS). Helping to strengthen your Pelvic Floor muscles - The more you stimulate your Pelvic Floor Muscles the stronger they become. The Femme Elite (PFS) works like an internal muscle toner to strengthen the pelvic floor muscles
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Kegels: Working out your pelvic floor
By ThinkBaby on 03/12/2006 02:03:18
Whether you call them Kegel or pelvic floor exercises, they're a must-know for pregnant women and mums
that exercising the PC (puboccygeus) muscles, or muscles of your pelvic floor, gave women better bladder control.What the pelvic floor is & why it mattersYou pelvic floor muscles are those muscles supporting the bladder, uterus and rectum and keeping them all
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