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Indy hosts our third WoW Event with Dr Natalie Brown & Sarahjane West-Watson - Part 2: Postpartum.

Price: £8.00

Kindly supported by Arc'teryx.

Event overview:
This session will explore two aspects of postpartum.
In part one Dr Natalie will explain and detail what to expect of your menstrual cycle after pregnancy and why,. She will also cover how you may be able to manage your cycle.
The second part will focus on pelvic floor health with pelvic floor specialist Sarahjane explaining pelvic floor health postpartum and how to manage and improve this for the active mother. She will then run a practical workshop.

What Sarahjane says:
The pregnancy journey is so well supported; with day-by-day updates on bump being available at the touch of a button... But the journey into the post-natal period can leave women feeling isolated and having to befriend a new body, core and pelvic floor that has miraculously birthed a human being. For physically active women this can be an especially difficult to navigate.

The expectation on mums to ‘bounce back’ to pre-pregnancy form at 6 weeks is huge and unrealistic. Learning to restore a core that has taken 9 months to stretch and birth, requires deep restoration. During the second part of this WoW postpartum session you can look forward to being helped to:
1) Understand how your pelvic floor, core and breath are all connected.
2) Clarify how to actually perform pelvic floor exercises and find your core.
3) Identify when things aren’t right and what to do about it.

Your Hosts:
Dr Natalie Brown is a research associate based at Swansea University and Sport Wales. Her research explores the menstrual cycle and sport across all levels of performance, whether that is at the Olympics or helping someone complete daily activity. 

Natalie promotes a positive perception of the menstrual cycle in sport, with an importance placed on having a healthy menstrual cycle and finding solutions for reducing or managing symptoms which are affecting exercise participation and sport performance.  

Sarahjane West-Watson:
Despite graduating as a first class BSc(Hons) Physiotherapy student, my journey through motherhood and returning to exercise enlightened me to the lack of appropriate support and education for new mums. After immersing myself in deeper education and specialist training, including Pre/ PostNatal Personal Training and specialist core and pelvic floor restoration, I founded Fit Fanny Adams over a decade ago to help women regain strength and confidence in their core and pelvic floor.

I work with private clients, run online programmes, host The Pelvic Floor Connection Podcast and Guest Speak on this subject to organisations including; The UK Perinatal Mental Health Partnership, Bangor University (School of Human and Behavioural Sciences "Menopuase Lounge’) and North Wales Fire and Rescue Service.

Event structure:
Dr Natalie Brown 60 minute presentation.
Sarahjane 30 minute presentation.
Refreshment break.
Pelvic floor practical workshop.
Q&A and discussion.

Please note
To make the event as accessible and as comfortable for mothers as possible, together with helping with general parenting, we will be offering a space for partners with babies/young children at the far end of the climbing wall.
This will be on the boulder matting and as such blankets and portable playpens, etc are welcomed. The aim is to allow mothers to have easy access within a comfortable distance albeit away from the main talk space. If you have any questions regarding this, please do get in touch.
Partners will have free access of course!

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