Continuing their warm-up routine, the women sit squarely on top of large exercise balls, alternately stretching their backs by holding colorful scarves taut above their heads and moving their hips in ...

A woman giving birth lies down on a hospital bed, surrounded by medical professionals clad in scrubs and latex. There are breathing exercises; perhaps pain medicine is administered. After some huffing ...

Although I have danced through each of my pregnancies and although I have cherished the power of a woman’s body to birth a baby both naturally and peacefully, it was not until my third pregnancy that ...

A passerby may hear the music and assume there is a traditional dance class going on inside. The mixture of Latin, African and Middle Eastern belly dance percussion is enough to make anyone want to ...

- The prenatal and postnatal dance classes at Hillcrest Hospital, 6780 Mayfield Road, incorporate international dances to help prepare women for birth. This is a four week course, Aug. 15 to Sept. 5, ...

BIRTH DANCE: Belly dancing was originally created to help women with the birth process, but it offers offers added health benefits, says sacred dance teacher Michelle Dionne. Photo by Kelcey Loomer ...

Ever considered belly dancing to ease pregnancy? Middle Easten women have been belly dancing during pregnancy and labor for years. In fact, that's how belly dance started said Emily McKeon,34, who ...

Baldwin revealed in January that she's planning to name her baby girl "Holland" Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. She has also published ...