You want to do yoga with your baby because in addition to helping you keep the line after delivery, you know that it will help you improve your performance as a mom; but when to start moving?
For Nicole Bishop, a practitioner of Hatha Yoga (a type of yoga) for more than 10 years: «Practicing this activity with the baby makes moms more intuitive and serene when caring for them, and helps the little one to connect better with his new environment, in a healthier, kinder and more natural way ». So put these tips to work; They will help you start in the best way for you and your baby.
WHEN TO START?
Since at the beginning the most important thing is not physical exercise but bonding with the child, you do not need to be fully recovered from childbirth to start performing yogic postures, as long as their strength does not fall on the abdomen.
The little one, for his part, can also benefit from this discipline from the first days of his birth.
You can start, for example, by lying down with the little one and placing one of your hands on his belly button, while you place the other on your abdomen, close your eyes and focus on the rhythm of the breathing of both. It is a completely harmless (and very yogic) way of raising awareness about the arrival of that little being in your life.
Of course, the exercises whose force falls directly or indirectly on the muscles of the abdomen, you must leave for later; from the month and a half after the birth of the baby, if the delivery was vaginal, and for after the second postpartum month, in the case that she was born by caesarean section.
In fact, practicing yoga with the baby should be a relaxed, calm activity; If at first, he refused to cooperate, don’t worry, postpone the session and, meanwhile, enjoy giving him your attention, perceiving his heart rate, watching him…