Mama Real Fitness

29/11/2023

2024! new things on the horizon 🤍🤍🤍

05/11/2023

Calling all mama's Pre & Post natal - This is our last course of 2023

We are running one last Mamalates course before Christmas

4 week course - 16th, 23rd, 30th November & 7th December £36

If you would like to join us please text or call 07368 117664
or email rochdalepilatesandyoga@gmail.com

04/10/2023

15/09/2023

2 weeks and counting!
Exciting changes are heading our way at RP&Y

06/04/2023

Can’t wait to welcome Ruth xx

Welcome to Pea in the Pod Hypnobirthing! I’m a hypnobirthing teacher based in Littleborough, Greater Manchester, offering a range of birth prep courses for pregnant mums and their birth partners!

If you’re feeling a bit anxious about birth, worried about what’ll happen and not sure if you can cope, hypnobirthing will help you ditch the fear and feel confident about giving birth.

If you’ve given birth before and want this next birth to be different, hypnobirthing can give you the tools you need to stay in control and have a positive birth experience that you look back on and feel great about.

If you haven’t given much thought to the birth, feeling a bit too busy with those 300 other things on your to do list, then a hypnobirthing course is a great way to carve out some time for birth prep.

I’m Ruth, and I’m really excited to be launching a hypnobirthing business in Littleborough and the surrounding areas. I discovered hypnobirthing when pregnant with my second child, Daphne, and it completely transformed my pregnancy and birth experience! I’ve done birth without hypnobirthing and I’ve done it with it, and the difference is pretty huge! That’s why I’m so passionate about spreading the word and giving other people what I wish I’d had the first time around.

If you’d like to know more, check out my website for more details on what hypnobirthing is, what courses I offer and lots more.

Follow my page for updates, birth tips and info!

You can also find me on instagram if that’s more your thing! Pea in the Pod Hypnobirthing

09/02/2023

Sunday Session

Book your place on our fascia release session

Sunday 12th March

for more info contact: rochdalepilatesandyoga@gmail.com

27/10/2022

12/07/2022

This lady is fab! Gorgeous pics 💙🤍💙

👣 Has your family just grown by 2 feet?
💌Get in touch and we’ll create some special memories with you!
⚫️ Tag your new mummy/daddy friends and those to soon be mummy and daddy’s.

07/06/2022

Baby Elsie is READY FOR MAMA LATES!

Our new block of classes starts THIS Thursday 9th June at 11am at Rochdale Pilates & Yoga Studio Rochdale.
Rochdale Pilates & Yoga Studio

Come and try Pre and Post Natal Pilates, work on your pelvic floor, restore your core and flexibility and meet mamas just like you.

Your class even includes a free brew!

£34 for 4 weeks or £10 drop in booking required via rochdalepilatesandyoga@gmail.com

Pilates by Louise O'Toole

27/05/2022

🤱🤱🤱🏽🤱🏿
HAVE YOU RECENTLY HAD A BABY?!

Our new block of classes starts Thursday 9th June at 11am at Rochdale Pilates & Yoga Studio Rochdale.

Come and try Pre and Post Natal Pilates, work on your pelvic floor, restore your core and flexibility and meet mamas just like you.

Your class even includes a free brew!

£34 for 4 weeks or £10 drop in booking required via rochdalepilatesandyoga@gmail.com

Pilates by Louise O'Toole

26/05/2022

Mama Lates
Pregnancy and Post Natal Pilates
Thursday

Safe, calming, relaxed, 'non-sweaty' exercise designed with Mamas in mind.
Safely get fit for birth and restore your core after birth.
Suitable for all levels of fitness, all births, for babies of all ages.

Come and join us!


Ran by pre and post natal specialist and back care instructor

£34 for 4 weeks or £10 drop in rate.

Booking via rochdalepilatesandyoga@gmail.com

Because

01/04/2022

A systematic review and meta-analysis has examined the characteristics and effectiveness of pregnancy yoga interventions.

“Twenty-nine studies with 2217 pregnant women were included for meta-analysis.

Pregnancy yoga interventions reduced anxiety, depression and perceived stress.

Yoga interventions also reduced duration of labour and, increased odds of normal vaginal birth and tolerance for pain.

The quality of evidence (GRADE criteria) was low to very low for all outcomes.

Twelve or more yoga sessions delivered weekly/bi-weekly had a statistically significant impact on mode of birth, while 12 or more yoga sessions of long duration (> 60 min) had a statistically significant impact on perceived stress.”

The researchers concluded that, “The evidence highlights positive effects of pregnancy yoga on anxiety, depression, perceived stress, mode of birth and duration of labour.”

The reference for this study is: Corrigan L et al (2022). The characteristics and effectiveness of pregnancy yoga interventions: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 22(250).

You can read the full paper at https://bmcpregnancychildbirth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12884-022-04474-9

(We’ll link that in Sara’s stories today).

We share research for those who like to stay up-to-date with birth-related research and thinking. If you're a midwife, birth worker or pregnancy yoga teacher who would like to delve deeper into studies, get updated on what's new and become better at understanding research, join Dr Sara Wickham’s mailing list at www.sarawickham.com

08/03/2022

Every Thursday 1 -2.30pm our friendly staff at Derby Street children's centre run a breastfeeding group 🤱
It is for any pregnant mums or mums needing support with breastfeeding. Also, breastfeeding mums can come along to the group. It's a great opportunity to chat, make new friends while your children play.
rochdale.gov.uk/childrenscentres

08/03/2022

🖤Homebirth🖤

🖤Are you planing a home birth?
🖤Have you been supported to birth at home?
🖤Was your home denied because of the shortage of midwives?
🖤We want to hear from you, would you be willing to speak about this at the march with midwives?
🖤This is me with my third baby, Maria she was my second water birth at home! My births shaped me as a mother and midwife I was supported in my choices by my midwives, I had zero intervention because my birth was midwife led, my birth experience will stay with me forever, just like yours will.
🖤Birth experiences matter, where ever you choose to birth you deserve to be supported in your choices and to have 1-2-1 care by midwives that are also well cared for!
🖤This is why the march with midwives matters, we know if we have more midwives the rate of interventions will reduce and in turn mothers will have better birth experiences, be less likely to suffer physical & emotional trauma , be more likely to breastfeed and be less likely to suffer postnatal depression these are only a few reasons why it’s important that we stand up and fight for better maternity services!
🖤6 days to go until our second march! We are marching for you, because your pregnancy & birth matters, and we want to support you better!

For more info and to March with us

08/03/2022

"Empowered women, empower women" is one of my favorites quotes.

This International Women's Day I want to thank all the women who have supported and attended Mama Real classes over the years.

This little community we build has helped so many, with working together to provide a hub for Mamas at

So thank you to everyone who has tried Mama Lates, Mama Yoga, Baby Massage and our Peer Support Group.

Pregnancy and being a new mama is hard and we hope we've gone some way to help many navigate that journey.

Hopefully you've benefited as much as we have... as they say

05/03/2022

*Newborn Photography*

I've been lucky enough to meet the lovely at the school gates and discovered she captures the most beautiful photographs.

Based at her home studio in Royton, close to Rochdale- Hannah's style is elegant, simple and timeless.

We attended as a family and we're immediately put at ease, she really is a baby whisperer and the images just speak for themselves.

I really would recommend this local business, for beautiful photography at an affordable rate, turnaround was quick and professional and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend Hannah to anyone!

She captures maternity shoots, newborns and families (inc dogs!)

Check out her page!