Prenatal Yoga and Pilates*
Looking for a prenatal yoga or pilates class in your area? These classes can help calm pregnancy nerves, prepare you for relaxation and labor breathing, strengthen your legs, core and back for delivery, relieve aches and pains, and offer a fun atmosphere to meet other pregnant mommas. Who doesn't like talking about when their due date is and how the kicking baby kept you up all night?
The Studios below all offer prenatal classes. Visit their websites for the current schedule.
Silverlake Yoga
Silverlake silverlakeyoga.com
YogaWorks Studios
Santa Monica, Larchmont Village, Westwood, Pacific Palisades, El Segundo yogaworks.com
Golden Bridge Yoga
Hollywood goldenbridgeyoga.com
Karuna Yoga
Los Feliz karunayoga.net
City Yoga
Hollywood cityyoga.com
Yoga House
Pasadena yogahouse.com
Santa Monica Yoga
Santa Monica santamonicayoga.com
Pilates Metro
Glendale pilates-metro.com
Natural Pilates and Bodywork
Beverly Hills naturalpilates.com
* consult your physician before making changes to your diet or excercise program
Keeping Up with a Hungry Baby
Pack Snacks
Pregnancy can bring on starvation-like hunger even just an hour after a full meal. Be sure to pack healthy snacks to avoid quick trips through fast-food or the convenient store where you won't get the most bang for your buck in the nutrient department. A bag of almonds or trailmix, an apple, string cheese, carrots, ants on a log (celery sticks with almond butter and raisins) all pack necessary nutrients for the growing kiddo and are easy for the momma on the go.
Bring Water with you EVERYWHERE
Be prepared with a glass of water on the nightstand for the middle-of-the-night-sahara-desert-thirst! Also, tote along a reusable water bottle filled with filtered water when you head out. Pregnant mothers need extra water intake to help transport vital nutrients to the baby, increase their blood volume and prevent constipation and hemorrhoids.
Must-haves
Exercise Ball
For relieving lower back pain, low-impact exercise, labor assistance and the perfect bouncer to rock babies off to sleep get an exercise ball. Check out lulubel.com/gifts for an option that is Latex, PVC, Phthalates, and Chloride free!
Body Pillow
This is a must-have for pregnant mommas to find comfort sleeping. Check out lulubel.com/gifts for product recommendations and purchasing options.
Decorating the Nursery with Non-Toxics
Furniture
Looking for a locally-operated company, making beautiful baby furniture using non-toxic practices, and safety standards that have allowed the company to proudly say they have never had a recall? Check out Million Dollar Baby. For more information on their safety practices, click here.
Painting
Green Seal is a non-profit organization using science-based standards to certify products for a more sustainable world. Look for the Green Seal on low-VOC paint options to ensure the lowest allowed threshold for pollutants in paints called volatile organic compunds (VOCs). Visit the Green Seal website for certified paint products.
Crib Mattress
Naturepedic offers a full line of organic mattresses. The difference in their mattresses is that ALL the materials throughout are organic. Visit lulubel.com/gifts for more information.
Playmats and Rugs
Under the Nile makes an organic throw rug in two different sizes, with the large just under $70. Visit lulubel.com/gifts for information on purchasing.
For a more colorful option, consider a playmat for your child's floor. Skip Hop makes foam playmat that is Phthalate, PVC and BPA free. Visit lulubel.com/gifts for information on purchasing.
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