IRA MAY
As a Nurse/Midwife Ira has been delivering services to Canberra’s women and their families since 2001.
To-day, together with a clinical practice in Canberra, she shares her wit and inspirations offering safe and powerful Aquanatal exercise and Massage Therapies to Canberra expecting, birthed women and their families and friends.
Research revealed that continuing modified exercise after conception, if exercised before, or gently starting as early as comfortable, if didn’t exercise before pregnancy, gradually building up intensity up to 150-300 min/week, brings the most significant health benefits to both, Mum and Bub.
Benefits of doing Aquanatal Program with Midwife
- Find joyful social musical environment, make friends
- Chat in water doing brain-storming
- Access a self-paced learning of topics
- Learn easy strategies to prevent pregnancy, birth and baby’s complications
- Be proactive to implement those strategies to achieve well pregnancy, better birth and strong baby
- Build stronger core, pelvic floor, tone your heart and body, boost your mood and “exercise” your baby
- It is recommended to prepare your body before conception as pregnancy challenges skeletal, ligamental, fascial and muscular integrity. Aquanatal classes, where Dad/birth partner join for FREE, and REMEDIAL THERAPY SUPPORT via BUNDLES designed to build pain-free stronger Mum, resilient Bub and tuned in Dad/partner.
Aquanatal exercise has been researched and revealed an amazing benefits for women. Water adds protective and supportive environment in that way that even heavily pregnant women can exercise safely “till labour sets in”. Women – exercisers – resort to less pain relieve in labour such as EPIDURALS. That can reduce the chance of INSTRUMENTAL DELIVERIES AND C-SECTIONS. Water dissolves stress and recharges body and mind in unique way that only water can do. Being exposed to exercise all over the year, especially in winter, helps to create stronger non-specific immunity to resist seasonal colds.
Dancing in water and laughing along with other women, sharing stories and a bite-to-eat, being guided by practicing Midwife-instructor will immensely support your beautiful Self and your forming Little One.
Regular exercise in pregnancy helps to reduce chances of high blood pressure and preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, overly large macrosomic baby, back pain and much more.
HOW TO JOIN
Please download the “Registration” and “Clearance” forms by clicking the boxes below. Please email back both completed forms
Alternatively paper forms are provided at the pool before class.
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Explore and SAVE with Our Packages/Bundles.
Bundle4
$20/class/15classes+$90/60min/5 massage treatments-health funds avail, no expiry date, share with family/friend.
$750(your savings $300)
Package15
$25/class/15 classes-no health funds
$375
Bundle3
5 flexible classes+60 min pregnancy massage-health funds avail.
$300
Package5R
$30/class/5 regular classes(Cancellation policy applied)-no health funds
$150classes
Bundle2
5 regular(Cancellation policy applied) classes+60min massage -health funds avail.
$250
Package5F
$40/class/5 flexible classes-no health funds
$200
Bundle1
1 flexible class+60 min massage-health funds avail.
$150
Package 10F
10 flexible classes(to be used within 15 weeks)-no health funds
$350
One off flexible class
$45
Remedial/Pregnancy/ Relaxation/Therapeutic massage
60-90 min assessment and Treatment-health funds avail.
$140-$160
Package5M
60 minX5 Remedial/Relaxation massage treatments-health funds avail, no expiry date, share with family/friends.
$500