{"id":618,"date":"2013-04-07T07:57:27","date_gmt":"2013-04-07T11:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/?p=618"},"modified":"2015-04-05T21:12:40","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T01:12:40","slug":"its-all-in-the-hips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/07\/its-all-in-the-hips\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s all in the Hips"},"content":{"rendered":"

For me right now, it\u2019s all in the hips (and the pelvic floor).\u00a0 Baby dropped about 10 days ago causing me total panic since everything you read will say in 2nd<\/sup> and 3rd<\/sup> pregnancies babies often drop right before labor starts.\u00a0 While I\u2019m ready to meet our sweet little being, I\u2019d really like to make it to full term and an engaged baby at 33 \u00bd weeks made me worry.\u00a0 Well, turns out baby wasn\u2019t quite ready and has spent ever since yo-yoing up and down: deep into my pelvis and then back up high into my ribs.<\/p>\n

Before Honeybun\u00a0dropped (somewhere around 35 weeks) I had no idea what my pelvic floor felt like.\u00a0 In all my dancing years I guess I had never really accessed those pelvic floor muscles.\u00a0 Well, an engaged baby has a way of giving you that \u201cbowling ball about to fall out of your lady parts\u201d feeling of extreme pressure on your pelvic floor.<\/p>\n

While my hip\/pelvic floor discomfort I\u2019ve been having (more in \u201cOn the Floor\u201d<\/a>) hasn\u2019t gotten any better, teaching and dancing this week has helped me realize a few things.\u00a0 First, actually maintaining a properly stacked posture and fighting the typical pregnant lady stance of belly forward, pelvis tilted, bum out does amazing things for relieving the pressure, especially through my hips and back.\u00a0 Unfortunately the bowling-ball feeling is pretty much there but easing the hip strain helps the overall feeling of discomfort.\u00a0 I\u2019ve found it helps tremendously to apply this to everyday life now, not just while dancing.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve also found while dancing, really focusing on a relaxed pelvis is so important in keeping the aches away during class.\u00a0 It\u2019s an idea that I was first introduced to while taking classes in Dublin.\u00a0 Dance Ireland, a professional dance organization, offers a morning professional class each weekday and rotates teachers, often bringing in special guest artists.\u00a0 I took class as often as I could with as many different teachers as I could.<\/p>\n

Nearly two years ago, when Sugarplum was not even a year old, I took a few classes with Libby Farr who specializes in Ballet for Contemporary dancers.\u00a0 And while I had taken ballet classes for years (over 20 at that point) she completely changed the way I think about moving my body in ballet class.\u00a0 She focuses on a relaxed core and pelvis rather than muscling everything.\u00a0 It sounds completely counterproductive to most trained ballet dancers but amazingly, it works!\u00a0 I have never danced better in my life than I did in the few classes I did with Libby.<\/p>\n

What ends up happening when you focus on a relaxed pelvis is instead of gripping unnecessary muscles in an attempt to maintain a proper posture, the muscles you actually need naturally kick in instead.\u00a0 It allows your hips a freer and easier range of motion and it\u2019s a concept I\u2019ve held onto since taking Libby\u2019s classes so long ago.<\/p>\n

Since getting pregnant and losing my abs I\u2019ve also lost my concept of relaxed hips but today I revisited it and it helped tremendously. \u00a0It is extremely hard to maintain a truly relaxed pelvis while moving quickly but I found today that maintaining the relaxed feeling prevented me from muscling the faster movements and prevented the soreness I\u2019ve been getting.\u00a0 I wasn\u2019t able to complete all the exercises as given but I\u2019d rather focus on moving correctly and avoiding the debilitating soreness I\u2019ve experienced after many classes lately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For me right now, it\u2019s all in the hips (and the pelvic floor).\u00a0 Baby dropped about 10 days ago causing me total panic since everything you read will say in 2nd and 3rd pregnancies babies often drop right before labor starts.\u00a0 While I\u2019m ready to meet our sweet little being, I\u2019d really like to make […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,14,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baby-business","category-ballerina-mama","category-mommy-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7883,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions\/7883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}