Baby2Body Blog | Pregnancy & Postpartum Health, Wellness & Lifestyle
Fitness, nutrition, and wellness topics for pregnancy and motherhood
Ah, plastic. The pesky stuff is everywhere, even where we can’t see it. Landfills overflowing with plastic bags that will hang around for the next thousand years or so provide enough warning to make us think twice before opting for plastic bags at the grocery store – but how else can we reasonably cut down […]
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Do you ever wonder: “How likely am I to have postpartum depression?” Well, one in seven new mothers suffer from postpartum depression (based on U.S. statistics). Additionally, between 50 to 85% of new mothers experience what is known as the “baby blues” after giving birth––and even if the low mood they experience isn’t severe enough to […]
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First-time mothers are especially susceptible to feeling lonely during their pregnancy, primarily due to inaccurate, often unrealistic, representations of what pregnancy is really like and perceived expectations that it will be a time of blooming, relaxing and nesting in complete happiness. One of the common misconceptions with loneliness is that you have to be by […]
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During pregnancy, and in the months (and years…) after your baby is born, you may experience, or be told that you are experiencing, something commonly referred to as ‘Baby Brain’. Sound familiar mamas? So is Baby Brain a real thing or is it just hearsay? We asked our friends over at Heights, a brain wellness […]
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Hi mamas. How are you doing? The past week and a half has been indescribably challenging, especially for members of the black community in the United States. To our mamas in those communities we want you to know that we see you, we hear you, and although we cannot imagine your pain, we want to […]
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Have you heard the news? We’ve been busy working on something really exciting for the past few months and we’re so excited for you to experience it soon! In the next few weeks we’ll be launching a brand new extension of the Baby2Body app; a complete health and wellbeing program for the Trying To Conceive […]
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We’ve come to the end of Maternal Mental Health Awareness week, but that doesn’t mean we’re going to stop talking about it, because it’s so incredibly important. Today we’re bringing up something that we know lingers on the minds of so many of you, as there’s this thing we tend to do as mamas… We […]
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Finding harmony between the two main pillars of our daily lives — work time and personal time — has been a (very admittedly first world) problem of the last half century, and many of us were struggling to strike the right balance pre-pandemic. Of course, now that so many of us have been forced into […]
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Last month we said goodbye to life as we know it as the reality of the COVID-19 lockdown came into full effect. No more daycare or school, commuting to the office or dinner with friends, and Friday night post-work drinks, family brunches and weekend getaways became a distant memory. You know the story all too […]
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Hey there mama. We wish we didn’t have to write this post. And we know you wish you didn’t have to read it. But here we are, together. As you’ve probably seen, there’s been a lot of buzz lately regarding new hospital policies that restrict or limit the number of people that can be in […]
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Happy Monday, Baby2Body fam! Just in case you needed a reminder of what day it was, because we find it’s getting harder and harder to keep track… Many of us are coming into our second (or third…) week of working from home and adjusting to a very different daily reality, and that can make it […]
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On top of all advice given by medical authorities, the best thing you can do is to keep your immune system functioning to the best of its ability. Here’s how you can keep your immune system in tip top shape.
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