Mums and Babies Yoga

I started taking Harry from 8 weeks I think. It was mostly yoga for mum, and we did a little bit of baby yoga, but really no more than 10 min.

My class was 90 min, so I'd make sure I fed him before the class and then just took him in his capsule and he slept there. I also took toys and a blanket for him to roll around on.

Sometime I used to feed him during the class as well, if he was hungry or really unsettled.

We went to yoga right up until the end of the year, and to be honest it was way easier when he was tiny than at 7 months old!

hey mel do you go to the yoga tree? I am thinking of doing the toddlers one as well this year - might start in Feb although H is a bit young... but def too old for babies class.

We started going when C was 6wks adjusted. I just took him in in his capsule. If he was awake I would lay him on the mat in front of me (just on a muslin) otherwise I let him sleep. There was a big range of ages in the babies, some mums had crawlers/toddlers and it looked much harder!!! Our teacher was great and gave lots of examples/modifications for including baby in the poses if we wanted to.

If C needed feeding I would just feed him there. Sometimes he would be needing to go back to sleep just before the end of the class so I would let him go to sleep on me and just relax for the rest of the class or the teacher would hold him for a bit so I could do some more.

We stopped going when C was around 5mo or so as it clashed with his nap time and then later with lunch time.

TBH some days I didn't get much out of the yoga itself but it WAS a great way to get us both out of the house and interacting with different people again

I tried to go with baby #1, think I only made it to one class! And it's been too hard with the second to have someone to look after my toddler while I went to yoga with baby so I haven't tried. I looooved preggy yoga at the Yoga Tree though.