We live in a very stressful material oriented society today, where woman are more likely to worry about their career than previous generations.

'Superwoman' syndrome is common with mothers having to juggle a fulltime job and partners being absent due to long hours.

Time pressures have also increased and we have swapped walking for our cars the result being that women tend to hold the pelvis very tightly having adopted bad posture this can lead to inflexibilty of the hip joints and pelvis, all of these factors can have a negative impact on our pregnancy and birth.