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  • Exercise Tip: Leaning Squats with an Exercise Ball

    Are you pregnant? Does your lower back hurt? Exercise ball are perfect for you! Here's how to do them.

  • Exercise Tip: Chest Opener Releases Tight Shoulders

    Are your shoulders tight and achy? This chest opener will relax you and ease the pain.

  • Five Things Toddlers Teach Us About Back Pain Relief

    Toddlers may have to rely on grown-ups to teach them how to tie a shoe and use the potty, but when it comes to knowing how to sit, stand, bend and walk with ease, we can take our cues from these agile little ones.

  • Massage Your C-section Scar

    Much of the recovery process after a c-section birth feels out of your control. Really, other than "taking it easy," patients are given little information on how they can help avoid painful issues down the road; however, there is one simple activity that can aid in both your recovery and long term prognosis -- massaging your surgical scar.

  • Questions to Ask Your Doctor About: Back Pain

    What questions should you ask your doctor about back pain? Here are a few for you.

  • Exercising While Pregnant

    To drag your body up to do anything when you're pregnant is hard enough, but to be motivated to exercise -- get outta here! Pregnancy is a time for sitting comfortably on the sofa with your feet firmly OFF the ground and your hand firmly IN a bag of chocolates...is it not?

  • Preterm Labor Symptoms?

    QUESTION

    Dear Midwife,

  • Depo Provera Birth Control

    QUESTION

    Dear Midwife,
    I had taken the depo shot back in August and was due for my next shot around the middle October. I had horrible pregnancy like symptoms for example vomiting when I woke up, couldn't eat as much, certain foods made me horrible nauseated so I decided not to take it again in October.

  • Sandy's Surprise -- First Day Subbing

    I am on lunch break now. Yesterday I officially got signed on as a substitute teacher and today I got my first call! I guess they weren't kidding when they said they have a high need for subs! I am working with 8th and 9th graders, and OMG! They are such a handful but so much fun.

  • Is Your Child's Backpack a Pain in the Neck?

    Complaints about back and shoulder pain are increasingly common. Parents have every right to be concerned about how heavy their child's backpack is. In fact, overweight backpacks have been getting so much attention that April was declared National Backpack Safety Month.

  • Exercise Tip: Leaning Squats with an Exercise Ball

    Are you pregnant? Does your lower back hurt? Exercise ball are perfect for you! Here's how to do them.

  • How Exercise Affects Your Pregnancy

    Exercise during pregnancy helps to alleviate many of the common problems of pregnancy. It improves circulation (which helps prevent constipation, hemorrhoids, varicose veins, leg cramps, and swelling of the ankles).

  • Pregnancy and Chiropractic Care

    Chiropractic care has also entered the field of pregnancy. A lot of people may have reservations about chiropractic treatments in such delicate conditions but this is not the case.

  • Sandy's Surprise -- First Day Subbing

    I am on lunch break now. Yesterday I officially got signed on as a substitute teacher and today I got my first call! I guess they weren't kidding when they said they have a high need for subs! I am working with 8th and 9th graders, and OMG! They are such a handful but so much fun.

  • Discomforts of Pregnancy: Sciatic Nerve Pain

    The sciatic nerve is the largest nerve in the body, providing sensory and motor function to the lower extremities. This nerve provides sensation to the back of the thigh, lower part of the leg and the sole of the foot. Sciatic nerve pain is a periodic severe pain that occurs throughout your legs.

  • Your Body's Changes and Baby's Growth, 13-16 weeks

    Your baby's head is now about 1/3 of its total body length. The facial features are being defined. The body is growing quickly and the fingernails are developing. The baby's sex can usually be identified by this time period.

  • Depo Provera Birth Control

    QUESTION

    Dear Midwife,
    I had taken the depo shot back in August and was due for my next shot around the middle October. I had horrible pregnancy like symptoms for example vomiting when I woke up, couldn't eat as much, certain foods made me horrible nauseated so I decided not to take it again in October.

  • Preterm Labor Symptoms?

    QUESTION

    Dear Midwife,

  • Exercising While Pregnant

    To drag your body up to do anything when you're pregnant is hard enough, but to be motivated to exercise -- get outta here! Pregnancy is a time for sitting comfortably on the sofa with your feet firmly OFF the ground and your hand firmly IN a bag of chocolates...is it not?

  • Questions to Ask Your Doctor About: Back Pain

    What questions should you ask your doctor about back pain? Here are a few for you.