Body Prep

Preparing for the best birth possible

Body Prep

Preparing for the best birth possible

Self-Paced Digital Course

Prepare for the Best Birth Possible.

You will be equipped with exercises, strategies, and foundational concepts to help prepare you for labour and delivery.

This 12-module, 50+ lesson course is the perfect opportunity for moms-to-be. Get the right information from a trained professional specialized in pelvic health care for pregnancy.

Course Highlights

  • Staying pain-free during your pregnancy

  • How to exercise safely during your pregnancy

  • Learn perineal stretching so you can reduce your odds of severe tearing
  • Relieve your pregnancy pain today!

  • Learn how to Kegel and when it could be making things worse for you

  • How to strengthen your core during and after your baby

  • 50+ Video Lessons + How-To demonstrations

Why was this course created?

In my 15 years as a Pelvic Floor Physiotherapist, I’ve worked with thousands of moms through postpartum recovery. A common sentiment among my clients was, “I wish I’d known all this before my baby came!”.

So many new mothers are unaware that there are steps you can take during pregnancy to prepare for delivery & postpartum recovery. Don’t be one of them!

This course was created to fill the knowledge gap I’ve seen too often in my practice.

Who is this course for?

This knowledge is valuable if you’re anticipating the arrival of a newborn. Even if you’re not a first-time parent, many of my clients with two or more children have found the content helpful during pregnancy and postpartum recovery.

How can this course help you?

Avoid Information overload. We’ll provide you with the right information from an experienced healthcare professional. Knowledge is power, but only if you take action! We’ll also provide you with practical tips, strategies and how-to videos so you can take proactive measures towards your health.

Melissa has been practicing as a pelvic floor physiotherapist for the past 15 years. She is the clinic director and founder of Markham Pelvic Health.

Module 1: Pelvic Floor Foundations

  • Intro to the Pelvic Floor
  • What does the Pelvic Floor do?
  • Advanced Anatomy

Module 2: Your Body During Pregnancy

  • Physical changes during pregnancy
  • Common Conditions Experienced
  • The best sleeping positions during pregnancy

Module 3: Pelvic Floor Muscle Control

  • How to relax your pelvic floor (reverse kegel)
  • How to strengthen your pelvic floor (Kegel)
  • How posture can affect you

Module 4: Combat Pregnancy Pain with Exercise

  • Is exercise safe for me and my baby?
  • Top 5 exercises to relieve pregnancy pain
  • 10 how-to videos on ways to relieve pregnancy pain

Module 5: Other Methods to Combat Pregnancy Pain

  • Changes you can make to your everyday movement
  • The benefits of massage

Module 6: Advanced Pelvic Floor Activation

  • Refining pelvic floor activation and relaxation
  • The importance of incorporating your core muscles
  • How breathing can impact your pelvic floor

Module 7: Train your Brain for Labour & Delivery

  • Sphincter Law
  • The Circle of Fear, Tension and Pain
  • Mantras & Birth Affirmations
  • Birth Companion Reading

Module 8: Birthing Trauma

  • What Is Perineal Tearing?
  • Different types of tearing that occur during delivery
  • Preventative measures: can anything be done?
  • How-to perform perineal massage

Module 9: Preparing to Push

  • Breathing and Pushing Techniques
  • Positions for Birth
  • Putting your Partner to work!
  • 36 Week Gestation

Module 10: Diastasis Recti

  • What is Diastasis Recti
  • Can you spot Diastasis Recti?
  • Diastasis Recti 101
  • Self Assessment: Do I have Diastasis Recti?
  • Belly Bands: Can they help my Daistasis Recti?

Module 11: Safe Postpartum Exercise

  • Getting back to Exercise Postpartum
  • What you need to know before you start
  • My 6 favourite exercises for postpartum recovery

Module 12: Life Postpartum

  • The fourth trimester
  • Life with a newborn
  • The Postpartum checkup
  • Early postpartum healing
  • Postpartum Challenges
  • Recommendations for return to exercise
  • Recommendations for return to sex

“We are educated on how to care for our babies, but not educated on how to care for our bodies”

50+ Lessons

12 modules that cover everything from Pelvic Floor Foundations to preparing to push during delivery.

Preventative Care

Take-action during pregnancy so you can increase your chances of a smoother delivery & postpartum recovery

Practitioner Led

This digital course was created by a licensed Physiotherapist focused in prenatal, postnatal and pelvic health physiotherapy