Having a physiotherapist on your team during pregnancy is essential! It’s a great touch point to have throughout your journey and allows you to get on top of aches and pains early or even prevent them from coming on all together.

It allows you to remain comfortable whilst your baby is growing and we can give advice about how to mange with self-management tips for home, exercise modifications or new things to try (like a prenatal hydrotherapy class for example!)

The Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine has released new guidelines recently for the management of mastitis and it has flipped a lot of the old beliefs and strategies on their head! We now know that some of the old strategies like massage and pumping can actually make the problem worse.

Are you experiencing hip pain during your pregnancy? Specifically on the outsides of your hips? This is what we call lateral hip pain and is actually the start of bursitis.

You might have heard your mum or your aunty complain about bursitis! But don’t worry – it’s not the end of the world! It’s usually only short term (whilst you’re pregnant), there are a few things you can do to self-manage it at home and hands-on physiotherapy can help if it continues to worsen!