Pregnancy & Birth Support with Physiotherapy

Learn more about pregnancy and birth to help guide your own care during this challenging, exciting, and unique experience of pregnancy!

Myranda helps women address symptoms and include your partner to understand basic physiology of pregnancy, birth and postpartum, while providing options for support with each step.

Physiotherapy during pregnancy can help you:

• address pain and symptoms related to pregnancy or increased by pregnancy

• understand the changes happening as your body grows and how to make adjustments to posture and your environment (work adjustments, sleeping, sitting and standing)

• Pelvic health support proactively and reactively if having bladder leakage, pressure or pain in your pelvis, including perineum education that supports pelvic floor muscles

• exercises to help with strengthening glutes, core and back for motherhood, in balance with down regulation for your nervous system and body balancing to improve flexibility of muscles and joints in your spine, pelvis and hips

• understand physiological birth: baby’s position and path through the pelvis, comfort measures and birthing positions

• connect with other providers you may want or not know could be helpful on your journey

Physiotherapy focused on Birth Education

Physiological education to support Vaginal & Abdominal Births

The support person coming to your birth is welcome to any and all of your sessions

Myranda’s additional physiotherapy training provides support for you to

Learn more about:

• The physiological process of labor and vaginal birth - support for in home or hospital births

• Pelvic floor muscle anatomy and function during pregnancy, labor and birth/pushing

• Perineal tear risk education & reduction strategies

• Labor & delivery positions

• Partner hands on and positional support

• Pain management and comfort strategies for vaginal births and cesarean births

• Movements/Exercise you may start now to help you prepare

Cesarean Birth Education

• Like any other surgery, it can be helpful prepare ahead of time for recovery

• You also deserve support with pain or discomfort despite how your baby will be born

  
  **Partners are encouraged to attend 1-3 in person sessions during pregnancy if wanting to provide hands on support at home during pregnancy and labor

In addition to advanced core and specific pelvic floor training, Myranda is also a Provisional Spinning Babies Parent Birth Educator

Private Couple In Home Spinning Babies® Parent Birth Education sessions:

• provide condensed birth education in the comfort of your home

• hands on partner strategies to start in pregnancy and use during labor

• learn to Belly map and create space for baby

Myranda’s Advanced Continuing Education in Prenatal, Birth & Post Partum Care

• Maternal Support through Comfort Measures and Pelvic Biomechanics (2020) Trish Brunelle, through Pelvic Health Solutions

• Cesarean Birth: The Role of Physiotherapy (2021) Jaclyn Seebach, through Pelvic Health Solutions

• Spinning Babies® Workshop (2023) Nikki Zerfas, through Spinning Babies

• Innate Postpartum Care - Planning for the Fourth Trimester (2025) Rachelle Seliga & Don Doty through INNATE Traditions

• Spinning Babies® Parent Birth Educator Trainer (2026) through Spinning Babies

• Innate Postpartum Care Provider Training - In Progress - Rachelle Seliga through INNATE Traditions

• Salutophysiology in Pregnancy and Birth: From Risk-Focused to Health-Oriented Care - Anna Maria Rossetti through Spinning Babies

Wanting support but unsure where to start or have questions for Myranda?

Direct Billing and Insurance Receipts available for all Physiotherapy services
In Person and Virtual appointments available

PHYSIOTHERAPY ANY TIME AFTER BIRTH

You can access care anytime you want. You do not need approval from anyone.
Support on all levels are accessible to you when you feel you need it and want it.

Women have sought Physiotherapy at a varying number of weeks following birth virtually and in person at home, as early as 1 week, especially if have any type of muscle pain not managed by pain medications or related to posture.
Myranda has year experience working on acute care wards in the hospitals and with wound healing, specific to Physiotherapy.

Example story: Second time mother with so much post delivery tailbone pain she couldn’t sit or lay. Myranda helped her find more ease with a virtual physio session at 6 days after birth. I’ve seen many women 3-10 days after birth because no one deserves to suffer when so much rehab is safe and appropriate early.

ACUTE AFTER BIRTH SUPPORT - 0 to 12 days

Learn what you can in pregnancy so you can lean into it right away.

You deserve support for any pain or wound tending guidance that you need. Ask all the questions you need in hospital and know there are other supports available to support you.
A “Healthy At Home” Nurse will come days after you arrive home provided by Public Health Care. If you need immediate medical care for severe health concerns or questions, call 911 or 811.
You can also access care from other providers known to you during pregnancy or new after birth provided their qualifications and your comfort levels.

Acute After Birth Physiotherapy care provides support for intense muscles, nerve or bone pain occurring secondary to delivery

Example: tailbone pain, back or hip pain, troubles emptying bowels due to pain, troubles with walking or getting up

New and ongoing clients may reach out to book as needed.

EARLY POSTPARTUM SUPPORT - 0 to 6 weeks

All women, regardless of where they live, age, race, etc. need and deserve fundamental physiological support in the early postpartum period. Myranda provides holistic Physiotherapy support after birth in the form of:

• body work - lymphatic massage, light pressure massage

• wound tending and management education

• early breath and connection focused exercises

• reviewing pregnancy stretches that can be used after birth

New and ongoing clients may reach out to book as needed and many women schedule a follow up either virtually or in-home in person sessions in advance for 3-4 weeks after birth.
Many women send emails or request a discovery call within the first 2 weeks to check if if wanting with Myranda.

CONTINUED POSTPARTUM RECOVERY - anytime until your forever

No matter how long ago you had miscarriages, passed or live babies, you deserve care and support for any body pains, pelvic health, reproductive and sexual health.

Myranda offers one on one Physiotherapy as well as group fitness classes for mothers. Wanting a community? You don’t have to recover, rehab, mother or parent alone. Check out LIFT classes!

This part of the website is being updated. If you have any questions reach out to Myranda directly to share the support that you are looking for!