The Pilates Bookshelf: Top Pregnancy Resources
If you’ve been wanting to learn more about maternal fitness for your clients or yourself, here’s a great place to start.
Recommended Books
Pilates Workbook for Pregnancy
Matenal Fitness
: Preparing for a Healthy Pregnancy, an Easier Labor, and a Quick Recovery by Julie Tupler, RN
Exercising Through Your Pregnancy by James Clapp
What to Expect When You’re Expecting by Murkoff, Eisenberg, & Hathaway
All books written by Elizabeth Noble, PT, such as
Essential Exercises for the Childbearing Year and Having Twins and More
All books written by Ina May Gaskin, such as Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth
and Spiritual Midwifery
Exercise in Pregnancy, editors Raul Artal, MD & Robert Wiswell, Phd
All books written by Penny Simpkin
Recommended Websites
childbirthconnection.org
lamaze.org
choicesinchildbirth.org
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Reader Comments (1)
Interesting recommendations! From this list, I only have read "What To Expect When You're Expecting". I discovered from my last pregnancy that maternal fitness is very important that it should be observed by any expectant mom.
Shirley Grace
http://pregg.net