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Staying active during pregnancy
Experts agree that keeping active during pregnancy is important for both mum and baby. It can minimise pregnancy weight gain, give you an energy and mood boost, and can even make labour and delivery...
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Pregnancy and Fitness: Exercise for Expectant Mums
For expectant mums, exercise was once considered risky. But now, most pregnancy specialists agree that regular, mild to moderate exercise not only supports a healthy pregnancy, but also leads to...
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Healthy eating during pregnancy
Making sure you’re eating healthy foods throughout your pregnancy is not just good for your own health, but also for your unborn baby’s health too. Contrary to popular belief though, eating for two...
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Safe exercise during pregnancy
There are a few key rules and things to remember when it comes to safe exercise during pregnancy; there’s still a lot that you can do, but certain exercises may put your or your baby at risk. Here’s...
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How to improve your fertility
Planning on conceiving this year? Your health and lifestyle can affect your ability to get pregnant, so if you and your partner have decided you want to bring a new life into this world, here are some...
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Exercise after pregnancy
Finding the time and motivation to exercise can be a challenge before you have a baby, let alone after your bundle of joy has arrived. Here are some of our top tips to help you get back on track with...
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Diary – Fit mama: Week 19
Personal trainer Ange Noy is pregnant with her first child and trying to maintain her fitness level as best as possible while navigating sometimes conflicting advice from her endocrinologist, GP,...
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Diary – Fit mama: The key training questions
Personal trainer Ange Noy is pregnant with her first child and trying to maintain her fitness level as best as possible while navigating sometimes conflicting advice from her endocrinologist, GP,...
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More workplaces urged to support breastfeeding
More than one third of New Zealand employers are unaware of workplace breastfeeding legislation, a figure reflected in the lack of support for breastfeeding employees found in a study undertaken by...
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Diary – Fit mama: The final weeks
Personal trainer Ange Noy has recently had her first child and has been trying to maintain her fitness level as best as possible while navigating sometimes conflicting advice from her endocrinologist,...
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More workplaces urged to support breastfeeding
More than one third of New Zealand employers are unaware of workplace breastfeeding legislation, a figure reflected in the lack of support for breastfeeding employees found in a study undertaken by...
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Diary – Fit mama: The final weeks
Personal trainer Ange Noy has recently had her first child and has been trying to maintain her fitness level as best as possible while navigating sometimes conflicting advice from her endocrinologist,...
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Pregnancy Diary: Week 17 – Back into exercise
My confession (+ workout inspiration and bump shot!): So tomorrow I’m 18 weeks pregnant and although I’m a personal trainer I’ve only used my gym membership once in about the last three months....
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Pregnancy & postnatal exercise: Is the fitness industry failing us?
Did you, or are you exercising during pregnancy? An article I recently read raised some valid points about something that has been particularly concerning to me lately – there are so many personal...
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Pregnancy Diary: Week 20 – Dealing with aches & pains
We’re half way there! That’s definitely a cause to celebrate – as is the subsiding of nausea and fatigue – but now that bump is growing bigger the aches and pains are starting to settle in. Relaxin is...
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Pregnancy Diary: Week 30 – Third trimester, cerclages & enforced bed rest
When they say that no two pregnancies are the same they’re not kidding! My first pregnancy was pretty much a breeze. As a personal trainer and regular exerciser I continued to stay active and work...
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Pregnancy Diary: Week 32 – Gestational diabetes freakout & a sick household
Like the rest of this pregnancy, week 32 has been a decent rollercoaster ride; a milestone mark for high risk pregnancies, a second gestational diabetes test, a husband with the shingles, a chickenpox...
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Pregnancy Diary: Week 36 – Cerclage removal & birth anxiety
Here we are at Week 36 – almost there as baby is considered full term at 37 weeks! It’s been a long and bumpy road, which got bumpier this week after the cerclage removal. Honestly. It’s like the...
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Pregnancy Diary: Week 38 – The waiting game (& how to get baby to come sooner?)
So now we’re officially at a week past being full term which means cerclage success! Hurrah for that, but now that this pregnancy is at the business end, I’m oh-so-ready for this bebe to come and meet...
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Running after pregnancy: Are you ready for it?
This was a post I was planning on writing shortly after my last pregnancy as it’s something I frequently get asked about as a personal trainer, but I never quite got around to it and now here I am...
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