Steps Toward Preparing the Physical Body for a healthy birth
- Before conception, follow the preconception health plan.
- During pregnancy, follow the diet for pregnancy and lactation.
- Strengthen Birth Muslces and Increase Joint Flexibility (before and during pregnancy)
- Practice Kegel’s
- Pelvic Tilt
- Rebozo Position
- Yoga
- Walking, Hoola Hoop, Bellydance
- Get special prenatal bodywork
Review these techniques for preparing the body for birth.
Nutrition, Labor and Birth
“It is a usual experience that the difficulties of labor are greatly decreased and the strength and vitality of the child enhanced where the mother has adequately reinforced nutrition..” Price, W. Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
Adequately reinforced nutrition refers to a diet containing “milk, green vegetables, sea foods, organs of animals and a reinforcement of the fat-soluble vitamins by very high vitamin butter and high vitamin cod liver oil.” Price, W. Nutrition and Physical Degeneration (High vitamin butter oil can be replaced by 1-4 daily tablespoons of yellow grassfed butter.) Such a diet is described on the Pregnancy and Health Diet Page.