18/08/2026
In the gym, past my due date, 2 days before baby girl arrived 💕
I’m so grateful I trained throughout my pregnancy, even on the days I didn’t want to. Training didn’t guarantee an easier labour, but I do believe it helped prepare me for the physical and mental demands of it. Especially when my labour was lonnng and the most physically demanding thing I’ve ever done.
Labour requires endurance, strength, breathing through discomfort, changing positions and continuing when you’re tired, all things I had experience with from training.
It taught me to trust my body, regulate my breathing and keep going when things got hard.
Labour was still incredibly challenging, and training certainly didn’t make it easy. But I genuinely felt that I had prepared my body as well as I could for the job it was about to do.