When to start bouncing on yoga ball pregnancy
How to Use a Birthing Ball: Naturally Induce Labor
hey mama's it's Hayley from let's mama
and today I'm going to be showing you
guys four exercises I do with my
birthing ball to help encourage labor to
come I don't really like to use the term
induction just because that's something
that we really only truly can do with
medical tools but encouraging labor is
something that's birthing ball is gonna
be excellent for it's gonna encourage
baby to descend and just really help to
like loose in our public region loosen
those ligaments allow baby to descend
and allow pressure on the cervix and
that will encourage our labor to start
naturally which is what we all want so
especially use this as you're
approaching closer and closer to 40
weeks so this is something that I do
every day
most the time I'm using my exercise
though actually when I'm doing fills or
eating dinner at the dining room table
instead of kind of lounging on the couch
on the dining room chair and kind of
leaning back which is gonna close about
that pelvic region I try to say it with
my good posture and on top of my sit
bones which is going to really allow
that baby to kind of come down and have
room and so using this for kind of like
your everyday stuff is gonna be really
helpful so without further ado let's get
started I'll show you my top four
exercises for inducing labor with a
birthing ball so the first thing that
that i'ii do is just the basic ball
bounce it's basically just a little mini
squat that's supported with the ball
obviously and really is just going to
use gravity and then having space down
there with your kind of writer position
of your legs so baby can move down
you know if you don't already have a
birthing ball or an exercise ball I'll
drop a link below in the description
this is just a basic exercise our
birthing ball from Amazon but it does
the job amazing and honestly this just
feels good to it put takes kind of
pressure off of my hips and lower back
which is what we all want later in
pregnancy especially so I really highly
recommend anyone if you don't have one
okay so then the second exercise are
just basic ball circles so we're just
gonna roll our hips come them around and
make a big circle and we ran into this
both ways I'd even heard that you really
can't do any of these too much they're
completely natural and harmless too or
yeah harmless to mom and baby so really
do them as much as you want or not just
feels good to you but I've heard that
you can do up to like 30 minutes one way
and then switch so maybe pop in your
favorite movie and do your ball circles
with your exercise ball especially if
you're past 40 weeks and then the other
way
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okay and the third exercise is just a
forward pelvic tilt so we're gonna make
sure we're sitting with good posture
like we should be the whole time on top
of our sit bones and really having that
open pelvis and then we're just going to
tilt forward and this is just a forward
cultic tilt and that way no matter kind
of what bit position babies in maybe we
can have room and we can help them kind
of wiggle down into the best place
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okay so then the last exercise is lunge
I like to call it a lunge but it's just
moving from side to side so I just kind
of step out with one foot and kind of
lunge to one side being supported by the
ball and back the other way and you can
go back and forth like this kind of do
whatever feels good to you honestly
or we can hold it too you can even do
some bounces here as well
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okay so that's pretty much it those are
my four exercises that I've been doing
to help my labour to come on time so
hopefully this will be helpful for you
guys please share with other pregnant
mamas your mama friends that are
expecting babies and I hope this really
works for you and your baby to encourage
them to come down and let you go into
labor read around your due date which is
what we all want in the end so if you
don't mind like and subscribe this video
and share it I'd love to see you all in
the next video when we do our birth in
labor video of our baby girls so hope to
see you in the next video and I will
talk to y'all soon
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