Customer Reviews

Yoga for Mom and Baby: A Postnatal Yoga Workout with Your Baby

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2 star:		(5)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

I LOVE this DVD. I have looked and looked for a practice that I could do with my baby. I had the hardest time trying to find time to exercise or do yoga after the baby came, and I looked everywhere. I tried videos, I tried books, and I didn't find much that worked for me. The baby always needed me before I could get 10 minutes into it!

But THIS is different! I love it! Your baby is in every single pose. Ann figured out creative ways to keep your baby in your arms or close to your face in almost all of the poses. I love it. My baby loves it! Half the time she falls asleep while we do it!

Ann offers helpful comments for those who had c-sections, also. I liked that a lot.

I also LOVE the two soundtrack options. You can pick calm piano music or more upbeat new-agey music. It helps keep things new. I really like it.

I highly recommend this DVD to all new moms!!

I spent a lot of time researching Mommy/Baby yoga DVDs. This one seemed to be the only one that really included baby. I was nervous because there weren't too many reviews, but I didn't need to be. It is a moderate yoga workout (as with any yoga session, you take it as far as you can go) but most importantly, baby is included in every single position. She encourages you to talk to baby at points, to tickle her, and an overall interaction throughout. I love this DVD. It makes it possible for me to workout and not have to wait for baby to be napping! Give it a try, it really is worth it if you want a post-natal yoga practice that fully integrates baby.

Our 4th beautiful daughter was born 6 months ago, and my wife wanted to get 'back into shape' after the pregnancy. She was thinking about Yoga, and so I got her this DVD, just thinking that it'd be great if she could work out with our relatively newborn baby girl.

I must say, that both she and I have been amazed at how doing this 'Yoga for Mom and Baby' has really helped her get her pre-pregnancy body back! She's been more full of energy, and hasn't had to put our daughter down to cry, just so she can work out!

As a caring husband I really have been so happy to watch my wife see herself in the mirror and have the confidence in herself and her body that she had years ago -- if not more confidence! This Yoga practice has really been one of the best purchases we've ever made because of the personal strength, inner peace, and great body that she's gained from it!

I highly recommend this for any mother (or husband wanting to get a nice gift for his wife), and I'm not quite sure about the negative review -- our baby is 6 months old, 21 lbs and kicks, and my wife does just fine adapting to our baby's wiggles.

I would only recommend this DVD for moms who did not do any yoga pre-pregnancy. The poses are not challenging in the slightest - holding your baby with one arm while waving the other up and down occurs too many times for my taste. Also, I made the mistake of thinking that having the baby integrated in each pose would be great entertainment for my baby. Wrong. Holding your baby while you do a yoga pose does not, to me, mean that the baby has been well integrated. If your baby is sleeping it's fine, but if he likes to be bounced, swayed, or moved in any way, he will get bored and will not be still enough for you to hold the poses.

I bought two postnatal yoga CD's, one for use with the baby and one without. This is the CD that I keep returning to. When my baby was 3 weeks old, he responded very little during the poses and slept through many. Now, at eight weeks, he is very engaged, although he does not love every pose. There are a variety of poses, and they vary in difficulty. I enjoy how the baby is incorporated into many of the poses (even adding some extra weight and difficulty). At eight weeks, it is getting difficult to incorporate my son into one pose, the modified boat pose - but he is a very large baby.

I have three criticisms. First, Ann Richmond, the orator, does not provide a lot of reminders about good posture and good positioning in poses. If you were not engaged in yoga before purchasing this CD, I would be concerned that you might not do the poses with good form. Second, I am breastfeeding, and I almost always have to stop the DVD part way through to feed my son. I wish that the time between chapters was shorter (one chapter per pose would have been ideal!). My version also has some audio problems. The volume of the background music varies a lot, at one point overwhelming Ann Richmond's voice.

Even with those criticisms, I would buy this DVD again. It is fun, and I love how it really opens my eyes to the ways my baby is changing.

My baby needs a lot of individual attention. When I put him down, he fusses because he wants to interact and be held. I've been kind of down in the dumps because it's been hard finding time to exercise when taking care of my precious boy. I've found the perfect solution!!! This video works perfectly for me because I get the exercise I need and it works perfectly for him because he gets the attention he needs. I'm not going to lie and say it works perfectly every time. There are days he is overly fussy and tired and not interested in exercising with mommy. In fact, the first time I tried the video, I was only able to do about 5 minutes because my little guy was too fussy. But the key is to KEEP TRYING. The very next time I did it, he LOVED it! It was such a special bonding time for us both.

The instructor has such a soothing, wonderful voice. I have her other two videos (Yoga for Pregnancy and Yoga For Yourself) and I love them all! I never get tired of listening to her and I look forward to strength and energy it gives my body. Highly recommended.

I purchased this DVD to do some yoga at home with my 3 month old. We are already going to a mommy and me yoga class together and I thaught it would be good to do some stretches at home too. I like this DVD, some parts are really fun to do together. What I do not like is that some parts are a little bit boring (the standing postures) not only for me but also for my baby who starts crying every time we do this part. Otherwise I think it is a good exercise and I will continue doing it.

This is a fantastic and straightforward yoga routine to get you back into shape and encourages lots of interaction with your baby. It took me awhile before I could do the entire routine with my 5 month old since he lost patience at first, but I found the positions helpful even without him. There was also good focus if you've had a c-section and felt any tugging on your incision and how to modify the poses so they were comfortable. I would recommend this video to any yoga loving mom that wants to share that love with her child.

I searched and searched for a yoga dvd that would REALLY include my new baby in the workout routine. This really does do that wonderfully. It's a good workout for me and I love that it incorporates my baby so well. When it says every pose, it really means it. But, it's not perfect. The production quality leaves much to be desired, the music is a little corny, so if that will really bother you, just beware. But what I really wish was that the workout was broken into short segments, maybe 10 or 15 minutes. Because after too long my daughter gets a little frustrated, needs a diaper change, needs to nurse, etc., 45min - hour is just too long. I'm sure that will be less of a problem though as she gets older. Overall, I'm really liking this dvd. It's pretty much exactly what I was looking for.

This video is great, I did it for the first time today with my 3 month old and we made it about 2/3 of the way through before she started fussing. I think she would have made it all the way if I did it when she wasn't so tired to begin with. It felt great to get back into yoga and she loved the face to face contact that many of the poses have. The only thing that was difficult for her was the constant change of position, but that comes with the yoga practice. Overall I think this is a great video, the scenery is beautiful, the woman's voice is soothing and it is a good workout that I think we will be doing a lot!