“Vile and disgusting remarks”: Expectant mum shamed for lifting 315lb weights
“I think she’s only worried about the video or herself rather than the child she’s bearing.” Fitness influencer Yanyah Milutinović was accused of attempting to abort her own baby when she shared a fitness video with her Instagram followers. In the video, the expectant-mum was lifting weights. Yanyah was around 8 months pregnant in the […]
5 years ago
“You wouldn’t run a marathon without training for it” – a Rotunda physiotherapist on exercising in pregnancy
Being pregnant – and giving birth – is hard work. To most of us, growing and birthing (and breastfeeding) a baby are some of the absolute most physically intensive things we will ever do. In fact, in a recent study, researchers studying the limits of human endurance could at the end of the study reveal […]
6 years ago
‘You feeling your best will benefit everyone around you too’ Kathryn Thomas on keeping fit as a mum
“I did not bounce anywhere.” After TV presenter and fitness fantatic, Kathryn Thomas welcomed her baby daughter Ellie in March of last year, it didn’t take too long before the brand new mum received comments on social media about how quickly she seemed to “bounce back” and lose the weight she had gained when pregnant. […]
7 years ago
The No Bullsh*t Guide To.. Keeping Up With Your Kegels
I’m not going to lie to you – before I got pregnant, I had no idea what a Kegel was. In fact, I will go one step further with my confession here, but this is just between me and you, ok? In my antenatal yoga classes, I pretended that I was doing my Kegels, but […]
11 years ago