baby & me pilates
The Postpartum experience is really something.
While babies are adapting to life outside the womb, parents are adapting to their postpartum realities. Juggling the baby’s feeding and sleeping schedule with their own daily routines makes it a challenge to find any time to set aside for much of anything self care, including exercise or making new friends. Enter Baby & Me Pilates!
Baby & Me Pilates is so much more than a group fitness class, it’s also community, a play date, and a parent/baby bonding experience. First of all, you bring your baby with you! So no barriers with the need to find childcare. The Pilates class is led by myself, Dr Amanda Fitzgerald, a Physical Therapist, Pelvic Rehab Practitioner Specialist, and Certified Pilates Instructor, in the beautiful healing space of Spyre Center in New Orlean’s Lower Garden District. Each class is meant to give you a safe Pilates workout in consideration of postpartum healing. This doesn’t mean it’s easy, Pilates is never easy when done intentionally! Every Pilates class promises spinal mobility in every plane of movement, core and pelvic floor activation, balance training, breathwork, flexibility, and strengthening. We intersperse the class with songs, involving babies as resistance or adoration, and end every class with the best dang bubbles you’ve ever seen. My favorite part of this class, after the babies of course, is seeing friendships form. The crowd often flows out to the Well Cafe for lunch and then poolside for a relaxing hang out.
What do babies even do in Baby & Me Pilates? Well the answer is, Babies Rule! They often are very interested in the group setting and are remarkably calm. They are involved with the songs we sing and smile and giggle. They always love when we involve then with movement such as riding along during bridges, squats, lunges, airplane or flying baby. When the crowd gets fussy, we pick them up! If babies are super chill, we may get as much exercise in for mom as we can! Every class is different.
Bring me your babies!
Peace, Love, Pilates & Pelvic Floor,
Amanda Fitzgerald, Physical Therapist, Pelvic Rehab Practioner Specialist, and Certified Pilates Instructor
