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“Why Did No One Tell Me?” Emma Brockwell is one of the UK’s leading women’s health physios, treating women of all ages with women’s healthrelated conditions. Her own pregnancy and postnatal journey taught her the importance of empowering women to take control of and protect their changing bodies through pregnancy, childbirth and motherhood. She is passionate about pre and postnatal rehabilitation, having returned to high impact exercise too soon after her own pregnancy to her body’s detriment. Emma’s new book Why Did No
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One Tell me? How to Protect, Heal and Nurture your body Through Motherhood is a warm, honest and informative handbook to help pregnant women and new mums take control and care for their changing bodies. Here Emma gives us her top five things to know to protect, heal and nurture your body during pregnancy, childbirth and your postnatal recovery. 1. Keep active during your pregnancy. One of the best things that you can do
during your pregnancy is to remain as active as possible. The Chief medical officer recommends that all pregnant women aim for at least 150 minutes of moderate intensity activity every week, and every minute that you are active counts. Activity comes in many guises, gardening, walking up and down the stairs, going for a walk. There are so many benefits to remaining active during pregnancy including helping to reduce high blood pressure problems, helping to prevent diabetes during
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