Lauren Ohayon is the creator of Restore Your Core® (RYC®), a comprehensive and sustainable whole-body fitness program that empowers women to achieve ideal pelvic floor / core function and be strong, long, mobile and functional.
Most online pregnancy workout programs pick one piece of the puzzle and stay there – strength on one app, stretching on another, breathing taught as its own separate skill somewhere else entirely. Labor asks your pelvic floor, your breath, and your nervous system to coordinate together, under real pressure, in real time, and a program that only trains one of those pieces rarely holds up once things get intense.
Lauren Ohayon, founder of Restore Your Core®, has spent more than 25 years helping women understand how the pelvic floor, breath, core, and nervous system work together through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. That integrated approach is the foundation of RYC® Bump & Birth, an online program that supports you from conception through the first eight weeks after birth with intelligent movement, birth preparation, pelvic floor education, and early postpartum recovery.
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Most pregnancy workout programs are built around fitness: keeping you strong and mobile as your body changes. That matters, but labor asks for something more specific. During labor your body needs three systems working together at the same time – your pelvic floor, your breath, and your nervous system – and most programs only train one of the three.
Your pelvic floor has two very different jobs to do. Through pregnancy, it needs to engage enough to support your growing baby. During labor, especially at the pushing stage, it needs to do almost the opposite: release and lengthen as your baby moves down and through the birth canal. A pelvic floor that has only practiced gripping can have a harder time accessing that release when it counts.
Your breath is what makes that release possible. Breath that stays high and shallow, or breath that’s held during effort, keeps pressure moving in a direction that works against your pelvic floor rather than with it. Learning to breathe in a way that drives pressure downward and outward, is a skill that can be practiced well before labor begins.
Your nervous system decides, moment to moment, whether it’s safe to soften or safe to brace. Under stress, most people default to bracing. Birth is intense by nature, so practicing the ability to stay regulated through that intensity – what RYC® calls the Trust Focus State – gives your body a way to respond to labor instead of fighting against it.
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A lot of pregnancy advice treats pelvic floor prep as a matter of squeezing more often. Doing just kegels train contraction, which is only half of what labor requires. The pushing stage of birth needs your pelvic floor to lengthen while staying responsive, coordinating with your breath and your baby’s movement.
This is the gap that proactive pelvic floor prep is built to close. The pelvic floor training inside RYC® Bump & Birth also trains the release side of that coordination through breath and whole-body movement, so the muscles learn to switch between contracting and yielding well before labor asks them to.
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Bump & Birth brings pregnancy fitness, birth preparation, pain support, nervous system support, and early postpartum recovery into one toolkit, with sessions of twenty minutes or less that help your body prepare as an integrated system.
Pregnancy fitness, birth classes, pelvic floor education, and early postpartum guidance are often offered as separate purchases. Bump & Birth brings them together in one program for a single payment of $97, with installment plans available and lifetime access for every pregnancy. It’s recommended by OB/GYNs, midwives, pelvic health professionals, and doulas in more than 80 countries, and the method is taught to more than 700 trained movement and pelvic health professionals worldwide.
Most prenatal fitness programs keep you moving safely through pregnancy without addressing birth itself. Most birth classes teach you what to expect during labor without training your body to carry any of it out. Bump & Birth was built to close that gap, combining pregnancy-safe workouts for every trimester, targeted support for common pregnancy pain, nervous system training woven throughout every session, movement-based birth preparation for the final weeks and the pushing stage, and early postpartum recovery in one place.
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“There is no thank you big enough for Lauren Ohayon existing and thinking and helping so many of us. Every time I do something I never thought I’d do again she is part of the reason why.”
Laura Gregg
Prepare your body, mind & pelvic floor for birth
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Try 15 minutes of breath and movement to prepare for birth
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Prepare your body, mind & pelvic floor for birth
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