Strategies for the C-Section Mom: A Complete Fitness, Nutrition, and Lifestyle Guide - Softcover

Knight, Mary Beth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1440502021 ISBN 13: 9781440502026

Publisher: Adams Media, 2010

Synopsis

Whether your C-section is planned or you have one unexpectedly, you need to know about the risks, the recovery, and how to regain your fitness level postpartum--all while caring for a newborn. This book outlines exactly what a C-section entails, and offers you information, guidance, and advice on how to make your experience and recovery smooth and happy.
Author Mary Beth Knight, one of the leading women’s fitness, health, and nutrition experts in the United States, has had two C-sections of her own and understands the unique physical conditioning requirements of C-section moms. The acclaimed founder of StrollerFit, Inc. has developed a program especially designed for women undergoing a C-section. She gives you the blueprint you need to be stronger, fitter, healthier, and sexier than ever, while enjoying everything that motherhood has to offer. Starting with the first day after the surgery and running through the end of the first eighteen months postpartum, this one-of-a-kind program shows you how to:

• Manage postoperative pain successfully
• Cope with emotional issues
• Exercise safely and effectively after the surgery
• Focus on exercises and stretches that can actually speed up your recovery
• Maintain a balanced workout that includes upper and lower body and core exercises
• Understand how many calories you should eat
• Lose weight when the time is right
• Adopt a nutritionally sound diet

Complete with photographs that show you exactly how to perform each stretch or exercise properly (and how to include your baby when it’s safe), this guide will have you looking and feeling great--in record time!

About this title

About the Author

Mary Beth Knight, president, chief fitness director, and spokeswoman for StrollerFit, Inc. (www.strollerfit.com), has been where many women are now: until age thirty she was an overweight smoker and unhappy about it. Today, she is fit, healthy, and happy, and mom to her daughter, Mazie, and son, Miles. Her fitness education includes ACE and AFAA certifications in personal training, group fitness, and pre- and postnatal fitness. Knight is now a fitness educator and presenter for ACE and AFAA, having created four continuing education courses on pre- and postnatal fitness. As the maternal fitness expert for Discovery Health, Knight answers questions from moms worldwide and offers her real-mom advice on a pregnancy and parenting blog that can be found at www.inspire.com/groups/pregnancy-and-parenting.

Edition details

• Publisher: Adams Media
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1440502021
• ISBN 13: 9781440502026
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240