Baby Weight

Baby Weight, an innovative prenatal and postpartum fitness plan, helps you control weight gain and maintain muscle tone during pregnancy and get your body back faster after baby comes. Baby Weight is unique to other books on the market today in that it was developed by a licensed Physical Therapist and certified Perinatal Fitness Educator, offering the insight of an experienced healthcare professional aware of the unique needs of the prenatal and postpartum mother. Learn all you need to know about the changes in your body and how to counteract adverse body changes and common aches and pains through specific exercises that isolate the exact muscles weakened during pregnancy and childbirth. Baby Weight features the CoreMama exercises, which teach you to work the muscles that need it most in a progressive and intense program that caters to all fitness levels. Since the exercises were developed by a Physical Therapist and Perinatal Fitness Educator specializing the treatment of women during and after pregnancy, you can rest assured that the intense exercises will safely challenge you within the limits of your abilities to push to the next level. You will sweat, you will tremble, and you will definitely feel like you've had a work out after doing these exercises! After baby comes, the postnatal program will teach you to use your baby's weight to help you lose your baby weight by incorporating your baby into the exercises, making them more effective and more fun! The handling techniques used to integrate baby into the exercises, developed by a neonatal and pediatric Physical Therapist, help stimulate your baby's motor development. Mom and baby grow strong together! Of course, weight control doesn't depend on exercise alone. Learn to follow a balanced and healthy diet with Baby Weight's practical and easy-to-implement nutritional advice that teaches you to make conscious food choices. If you are looking for a guide to get and stay in shape during and after pregnancy, look no further!

Baby Weight provides a comprehensive wellness strategy for expectant and new mothers to help manage their baby weight. You will learn how to incorporate a healthy diet and regular exercise into your daily routine to make it part of your lifestyle rather than a chore. Learn to build your own nutritious and balanced diet through conscious food choices during and after pregnancy with Baby Weight’s seven practical and easy-to-implement nutrition principles. Managing your baby weight depends not only on diet, but also on performing the right kind of exercise. Baby Weight teaches you to combine a variety of everyday cardiovascular training activities with the CoreMama™ exercises which isolate the exact muscles weakened during pregnancy and childbirth, so that you tone all the right spots and burn the calories needed to reduce the extra weight gained during pregnancy. Once your baby is born, the postnatal exercises in the CoreMama™ program will teach you to use the resistance of your baby’s weight to regain strength in the core muscle groups weakened during pregnancy. The progressive and intense program is different than the average pre- or postnatal exercise plan. You will sweat, you will tremble, and you will definitely feel like you have had a workout after doing these innovative exercises that really are fun for you and your baby! The positioning and handling techniques used to integrate your baby into the exercise program were developed by an experienced neonatal and pediatric physical therapist to help stimulate your baby’s gross motor development. The CoreMama™ program’s unique approach to postpartum exercise promotes bonding with your baby while you grow stronger together!

Micky Marie Morrison is a licensed physical therapist with 15 years experience in women’s health and pediatrics. As an International Childbirth Education Association certified perinatal fitness educator and mother of two, Micky began developing a progressive and intense prenatal and postpartum exercise program, first to meet her own needs, and later to meet those of her clients. CoreMama was born. Micky’s work with the CoreMama program demonstrated that women craved more of a challenge than what was typically offered in prenatal and postpartum programs. The new mothers and moms-to-be in the CoreMama classes were also inquisitive about proper nutrition and the changes in their bodies during and after pregnancy. Micky recognized the need for a comprehensive prenatal and postpartum fitness plan that would include all aspects of health and nutrition. Baby Weight was born. Micky divides her time between La Antigua Guatemala, where she owns Healing Hands Therapy Spa, and South Florida, where she teaches the CoreMama program to new and expectant mothers, as well as to other healthcare and fitness professionals.