{"id":1008,"date":"2013-08-15T19:40:06","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T19:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pilateswithpriya.co.uk\/?p=1008"},"modified":"2025-07-30T19:36:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T18:36:04","slug":"my-top-3-pilates-exercises-for-pregnancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pilateswithpriya.co.uk\/?p=1008","title":{"rendered":"My Top 3 Pilates Exercises for Pregnancy."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a huge fan of Pilates during pregnancy, it really kept me strong, active and held my pelvis together throughout 2 pregnancies. In fact in my second pregnancy when I was teaching 11 Pilates classes a week and doing Pilates daily I had no lower back pain or pelvic pain. It \u00a0really does work!<\/p>\n<p>So here are my top 3 Pilates exercises to do in pregnancy. These were filmed when I was 34 weeks pregnancy myself and are safe to do throughout all 3 trimesters of pregnancy and after birth too.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"738\" height=\"416\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p97UC4_tDTA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can buy my &#8220;Bump to Birth&#8221; Pilates in Pregnancy DVD here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a huge fan of Pilates during pregnancy, it really kept me strong, active and held my pelvis together throughout &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,259,10],"tags":[15,16,198,191,17,20,279,234,284,281,282,280,175,153,118,277,283,278,165,94],"class_list":["post-1008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antenatal","category-bump-to-birth","category-studio-news","tag-ante-natal-pilates","tag-antenatal-pilates","tag-antenatal-pilates-dvd","tag-antenatal-pilates-southampton","tag-babies","tag-baby-pilates","tag-bump-to-birth-2","tag-bump-to-birth-pilates","tag-exercise-for-pregnant-women","tag-exercise-while-pregnant","tag-pilates-during-pregnancy","tag-pilates-for-pregnancy","tag-pilates-hampshire","tag-pilates-southampton","tag-pilates-with-priya","tag-pregnancy-exercise","tag-pregnancy-exercises","tag-pregnancy-fitness","tag-pregnancy-pilates","tag-southampton"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3FIsx-gg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1099,"url":"https:\/\/www.pilateswithpriya.co.uk\/?p=1099","url_meta":{"origin":1008,"position":0},"title":"3 Band Exercises to Tone and Tighten","author":"Priya Tew","date":"31 October, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tnMberBXjL8","rel":"","context":"In &quot;AnteNatal&quot;","block_context":{"text":"AnteNatal","link":"https:\/\/www.pilateswithpriya.co.uk\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/tnMberBXjL8\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1123,"url":"https:\/\/www.pilateswithpriya.co.uk\/?p=1123","url_meta":{"origin":1008,"position":1},"title":"Postnatal Hair Loss, how to look after those locks.","author":"Priya Tew","date":"14 November, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"One of the lovely side effects I had during pregnancy was to have thicker, faster growing hair. 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