Life with a new baby can quickly shift from the most magical experience of your life to a time of insurmountable physical and emotional stress. You body has just performed miracles. It has put up with the biomechanical burdens of increasing weight, shifting centre of gravity, and ligament laxity. If has survived the extreme sporting event of child birth. In some cases, you may have even undergone major surgery. And now, as your body is trying to put itself back together, you are carrying around a squirmy little sack of potatoes roughly 20 hours a day, hunching over to feed it, and not sleeping. Being a mom is magical, but it’s not easy!
At AltaVie Health, our postnatal care and rehabilitation program is designed to help stay healthy, feel good, get strong, and avoid injury while meeting (and exceeding) the unique demands of motherhood. Whether your goal is to be able to lower baby gently into her crib without excruciating pain or to run your first half marathon since your motherly transformation, we can help you get back to your activities and to feeling good, safely.