It is one of the least glamorous topics in motherhood and one of the most important. If you leak a little when you laugh, sneeze or run, feel a sense of heaviness, or simply sense your core is not quite yours again, your pelvic floor is asking for attention — and it responds wonderfully to the right care.

Why the pelvic floor deserves the spotlight

Your pelvic floor is a hammock of muscles that supports your bladder, bowel and womb, and it works in quiet partnership with your deep core. Pregnancy and birth — however you delivered — place enormous demand on it. Leaking, heaviness and lingering core weakness are common afterwards, but common does not mean something you simply have to live with.

More than just kegels

Squeezing away at pelvic-floor lifts has its place, but true recovery is bigger than that. It is about learning to both contract and fully relax these muscles, coordinating them with your breath, and integrating them into how you move, lift and train. A pelvic floor that only knows how to clench is not a strong one.

When to seek specialist help

If leaking, heaviness or pain persist, a women's health physiotherapist is invaluable, and I regularly work alongside their recommendations. Together, physio expertise and specialist strength training give you the most complete recovery.

Feel strong and confident again

With consistent, intelligent training, most women regain control, confidence and the freedom to run, jump and lift without a second thought. That freedom is worth reclaiming.

Postnatal training in Battersea, Chelsea and Clapham

I help mums across Battersea, Chelsea and Clapham rebuild their pelvic floor and core through private sessions at home, outdoors or online — discreet, expert and entirely tailored to you.

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Somewhere between the newborn fog and the longing to feel like yourself again, a question surfaces: when can I actually start exercising after having a baby? The honest answer is more nuanced — and more reassuring — than the internet would have you believe.

The six-week myth

The six-week GP check is often treated as a starting gun, but it is really a green light for gentle, guided movement — not a signal to leap back into your old bootcamp. Every mum, every birth and every recovery is different. Readiness is about how your body feels and functions, not a date on a calendar.

Start gentle, build from the foundation

The first phase is quiet and deliberate: breathing, deep core and pelvic-floor reconnection, posture, and gentle whole-body movement. It may not feel like much, but it is precisely what allows everything that follows — strength, energy, confidence — to be built on solid ground rather than a shaky one.

Training that fits around a newborn

Perhaps the biggest barrier to postnatal fitness is not motivation — it is logistics. That is why training at home or in the park, with your baby napping in the buggy or playing on a mat beside you, changes everything. No childcare to arrange, no commute, no pressure. Just twenty to forty focused minutes that are entirely yours.

More than 'bouncing back'

Forget the language of bouncing back. This is about moving forward — rebuilding a body that feels strong, capable and genuinely yours again, at a pace that honours everything it has just done. Feeling like yourself is not vanity; it is wellbeing.

At-home postnatal training across South West London

I bring specialist postnatal training to mums at home and outdoors across Battersea, Chelsea and Clapham, plus live online sessions across the UK — every programme built entirely around you and your baby's rhythm.

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