129. Prenatal Pilates is just Pilates, with Hailey Hawkins and Raphael Bender

There is a persistent myth in the Pilates world that prenatal Pilates needs to be gentle, safe, highly modified and complicated. But this is not true…

Resources mentioned in the episode:

• Connect with Hailey Hawkins here
• Check out some of Hailey's Instagram posts here and here and here and here
• ACSM guidelines here
• ACOG guidelines here
• No relationship between relaxin levels and pelvic pain here
• The Sacroiliac joint moves 0.2 degrees in women diagnosed with pelvic instability here
• Instead the intensity of fear-avoidance beliefs predicts pelvic pain here
• During a curl up diastasis gets smaller here
• Ab strengthening during pregnancy reduces diastasis here
• Curl-ups reduce diastasis here

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