Mummy Has A Baby In Her Tummy

Growing a baby takes uses lots of energy so sometimes mummy can’t do all the things she used to do. There are many ways to help mummy while she grows the baby so she and the baby can be healthy and strong.

This book explains to children whose mothers are expecting, some of the most common musculoskeletal conditions in pregnancy including:

• Pelvic girdle pain

• Back pain

• Carpal tunnel

• De Quervain's

• DRAM

Between 50-75% of women experience these conditions throughout their pregnancy and rates increase with subsequent pregnancies.
Much of the advice provided to women is to modify some of their daily behaviours such as avoiding lifting. Implementing this advice is made more challenging with young children at home.
This book helps to explain these themes to young children so they can understand and support these changes.

About the author

Nicola Verhoef is a physiotherapist (and staff member at Melbourne Pregnancy and Pelvic Physio) who wrote and illustrated this book with the help of senior women's health physiotherapists. Education provided in this book is based on high quality and up-to-date evidence in alignment with common advice given to women experiencing these conditions in pregnancy.