Postpartum Support
The Wellness Village at Starling, 1404 Starling Drive, Richmond, Virginia 23229 Phone: 804.240.6779
Core Strengthening-Getting Your Body Back After Pregnancy
Your core is the anchor for your whole body. If your core is not working correctly, any number of problems can arise. We will educate you about the core muscles and then instruct you on how to correctly work your core muscles, you may be able to prevent issues such as incontinence, back pain, pelvic floor dysfunction and more. This class is perfect for all mom's after birth. 1 hour class.
Newborn/Fourth Trimester Consulting
The beginning of life is a wonderful and exhausting time. Let us help
you make sense of newborn behavior and development, sleep, positioning,
cues and cries, reflux, colic and more. Jenny Simpson, Certified
Educator of Infant Massage has been teaching parents about their baby
and the beginning of life since 1993. She is able to help new parents
better understand the fourth trimester and their new baby. Jenny will
help you to encourage sleep, rest and fourth trimester rhythm, calm and
comfort your newborn, feed, burp and position your baby for optimum
feeding efficiency, understand newborn gas, colic and sensitive bowels,
reflux and the newborn immature digestive system. House calls available
within the Richmond area*. $15.00 travel fee per visit.
Womens Health Physical Therapy
1919 W Huguenot Road, Suite 202, Richmond, VA 23235 Phone: 804.379.3002
WHPTI offers physical therapy for prenatal discomfort, post pregnancy recovery, pelvic floor muscle rehabilitation (CORE and Kegel exercises), pelvic and intimacy pain management, urinary and fecal incontinence, constipation, and many other conditions and injuries that are caused by pregnancy, labor, and delivery. The office offers a comfortable, individual environment with a truly caring staff. Their services include: education, abdominal muscle training, general body conditioning, pelvic floor muscle rehabilitation, home exercise programs, therapeutic exercises, posture instruction, stress reduction and relaxation training, diet education, and electrical stimulation. WHPTI also offers pilates classes, pregnancy recovery classes (including a Pelvic Floor Boot Camp), and prenatal and postpartum massage.
WHPTI offers a variety of postpartum classes including:
Bellies Bottoms and Backs
Education and post pregnancy rehabilitation with exercises to correct muscle diastisis.
Postpartum Pilates
Stresses returning to abdominal /back muscle support of the spine. Treatment patterns become more complex as your powerhouse supports your trunk.
Mommy and Me Pilates
Exercise with your new baby! Strengthen your abdominal, back, and pelvic floor muscles. These exercises will help you recover from childbirth, regain your figure, and care for your baby without breaking your back! Find more information in the Mommy and Me Classes section.
Postpartum Yoga
Bring your baby to class, retain abdominal and pelvic floor muscle tone, ease back and shoulder discomfort, and gently massage your infant. Newborn Massage will help facilitate brain developments, regulate circulation, regulate digestion, and regulate respiration. Find more information in the Mommy and Me Classes section.
Boot Camp for the Pelvic Floor
This class offers basic pelvic floor education and exercise techniques.
The Nanny Connection, Inc. 804.536.9597
The Nanny Connection, Inc. is Richmond's oldest nanny placement agency. They offer newborn/postpartum support for new mommies as well as professional childcare services. Contact them for more information.
Sara Fariss Krivanec and Adrianna Ross
Birth & Postpartum Doulas
Phone: 804.387.8847 Email: motherbabydoula@yahoo.com
Tender Hearts and Hands Doulas/Birth Services
Virginia Fleischman BSN RN
Birth/Postpartum Doula and CBE
Phone: 804-643-7606 Email: nursego20@hotmail.com
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