Mom-Baby Fitness: Modeling Healthy Lifestyle Habits

I let my daughter bring her stroller and baby doll to class, so she can do what the mommies are doing. Her active approach is catching on, too – other toddlers are starting to join in! It is never too early to start modeling healthy habits!

The 51% Factor: Pregnancy, Power & Health

Recently I came across this posting and thought it worth posting again. On one hand I see signs of continuing progress, and on another hand it seems to me there are fundamentalist influences popping up everywhere (including among U.S. evangelists) that threaten women’s right to reproductive freedom and health. There is no end to the [...]

How to Get Pregnant – Coaching Topic #1

Hurrah! We have power at last…a week after hurricane Irene romped through, we have juice! Thanks for bearing with us while we camped out. So let’s get on with the topic of How to Get Pregnant, starting with why do we need to know this? In the past few decades, the average age for a [...]

Hip Hop Pregnancy!

We recently received this query from hip hop dance teacher Aysha Cheatham Bowling on the DTP facebook page and we thought it was so important that it deserved a blog entry. Question:  I am a hip hop dance teacher and this is my first pregnancy. I am 6 months going on 7 months (due in [...]

Birth of Pregnancy Exercise: Evolution of DTP

Read about the evolution of Dancing Thru Pregnancy; 30 years of research and development!

Postpartum Exercise: Creating Your 3rd Body

Creating your new, improved body following birth.

Healthy Moms Having Healthy Babies – the Challenge in 2011

Outlining DTP’s goals in 2011: Helping women be healthy during the childbearing period, and adding to the effort to assure Safe Motherhood around the globe.

Birth and Human Survival

Ever wonder if humanity will become extinct sooner rather than later? Animal Planet program on sea turtles…hatchlings crawl across the sand to the ocean and the commentator remarks that only one in a hundred will survive to adulthood. Those who escape the pelican beaks or salt water crocodiles waiting for them on the sand may [...]

Active Pregnancy – the rationale

Moving into Motherhood It’s time to hit the main theme again:  Aerobically fit women are at reduced risk for things that go wrong in pregnancy, improve their tolerance for labor and birth, and recover more rapidly in the postpartum period. The arrival of the holidays provides a good reason to bring this up, yet again! [...]

Preventing Prematurity

Today is a day for bloggers to raise awareness of the growing rate of prematurity in the U.S.  As a pre/postnatal fitness specialist who has been working in the field for more than 30 years, I have a number of thoughts on this topic. I like to start thinking about this problem by thinking back [...]