Dr. Mae Hughes

Dr. Mae Hughes Movement for Motherhood. Helping women remain pain free and active during pregnancy and beyond.

11/24/2025

Movement for Postpartum (Vaginal Delivery)👩‍🍼

Your postpartum body is healing from one of the most incredible and intense physical events it will ever experience.

That’s why it’s so important to match your movement to your recovery stage. Each week your body needs something slightly different:
✨ Week 1: Rest, breathwork, and gentle reconnection.
✨ Week 2: Light activation to promote circulation and support your core.
✨ Week 3: Rebuilding foundational strength and functional movement patterns.

When you move with your body instead of against it, recovery feels more peaceful, confident, and sustainable.

As a pelvic floor physical therapist and mom of two, I see how these small, intentional steps create the strongest foundations for long-term healing.

Follow for postpartum recovery tips, pelvic floor education, and gentle routines that truly support your healing.

Comment RECOVERY for my free postpartum recovery guide 🖤If I could go back to 6 weeks postpartum, here’s what I would do...
11/24/2025

Comment RECOVERY for my free postpartum recovery guide đź–¤

If I could go back to 6 weeks postpartum, here’s what I would do.

P.S. My Black Friday sale starts TOMORROW. It’s the biggest sale I do all year, so you don’t want to miss it 🙌

A letter to my mom — and all of the moms out there doing their best 🖤Becoming a mother changed the way I see my own.I ne...
11/20/2025

A letter to my mom — and all of the moms out there doing their best 🖤

Becoming a mother changed the way I see my own.

I never understood the sheer amount of effort, unseen labor, emotional energy, and heart it takes to raise little humans — until I became one.

Now I look back and realize… my mom was doing the impossible, and somehow making it look effortless.

I wish I could ask her more about her life.
I wish I could thank her for the things I didn’t notice.
I wish I could tell her how much of her I see in myself now.

Every day I miss you just a little bit more, mama đź–¤

11/19/2025

Comment RECOVERY for my free postpartum recovery guide đź–¤

Early postpartum can feel…overwhelming.

Your body feels different.
Your core feels disconnected.
Your pelvic floor feels heavy.
And everything from feeding your baby to rolling out of bed takes effort.

So let me be clear, y’all: early postpartum movement isn’t about INTENSITY — it’s INTENTIONAL.

It’s about reconnecting to your breath, waking up the right muscles again, and supporting your body WHILE it heals ❤️

These aren’t workouts — they’re nervous system support, core re-education and foundation building.

Comment RECOVERY for my postpartum recovery guide ✨

11/19/2025

This might ruffle some feathers but…

Just because you’ve given birth does not make you an expert on the pelvic floor 🤷‍♀️

I’m all for increasing awareness and knowledge of pelvic floor dysfunction — but it seems to just be a trendy topic that every fitness influencer wants to talk about.

You can learn so much from a weekend course — yes.

👉 But you learn FAR more from actually working with this patient population IN REAL LIFE!

You learn what cues work and don’t work, what true prolapse feels like internally, what a hypertrophic C-Section scar feels like and most importantly what exercise progressions actually work for different women!

I “thought” I knew the pelvic floor after taking all of my additional continuing education. But I was wrong. I didn’t truly learn how it functions in real women until years later after working with this population in real life.

Take it or leave it — but those are just my thoughts for the day 🤷‍♀️

11/18/2025

🤰 Let me explain your SI joint pain…

During pregnancy it’s common to develop SI joint pain from over gripping of your glutes as well as postural changes 🤷‍♀️

With this you want to focus on releasing or “unsticking” your sacrum with movements like…

âś… Obturator internus release with a lacrosse ball to release posterior pelvic floor tension
âś… Glute release with lacrosse ball for more posterior chain release
âś… Yoga block cat cow for pelvic floor and glute lengthening
âś… Quadruped hip shifting for pelvic mobility
âś… 90/90 Hip internal rotation on a wall to better stack the ribs and pelvis while finding space into hip internal rotation
âś… Kickstand hip airplane for more hip shifting in a more challenging position

All of these movements are incorporated into the warm up and cooldown for my Movement Through Pregnancy workouts — which you can find in the link in my bio 🔗

Let me know…would you want me to do a follow along movement flow for SI joint pain during pregnancy?

11/18/2025

Comment PREP for my free guide on How To Reduce Perineal Tearing plus a 10 minute birth prep mobility flow 🙌

But seriously, birth doesn’t have to be scary or intimidating!!

As a pelvic floor physical therapist and mom or 2 (soon to be 3) — I’ve worked with thousands of women both online and in-person to help prepare their mind, body and pelvic floor for birth because knowledge is power.

And even if your labor doesn’t go the way you hoped for, just know pelvic floor rehab exists for a reason. We are here to help you recover and rebuild postpartum 🙌

With the right knowledge and prep work you can improve your chances of experiencing the labor you desire ❤️

Comment PREP for my free labor prep resources as a pelvic floor physical therapist!

11/13/2025

Talking all things perineal tearing on this week’s YouTube video 🙌

Comment WATCH and I’ll send the link your way 🎉

And yes — these are all methods I PERSONALLY used during both of my labors to avoid any form of perineal tearing — one with an epidural and one without!

11/12/2025

Honest thoughts about 2 under 2 — while transitioning from 2-3 kiddos 🖤

Forever grateful for the follow along videos from my Movement Through Pregnancy & Postpartum programs so I can just hit play and shut off my brain 🙌

11/11/2025

Comment CORE for a free pelvic floor & core stability workout 🙌

You can do ALL of the core work in the world and still not see the results you want with your diastasis.

Because sometimes you need SMARTER programming — not necessarily harder or more exhausting programming.

Tightness in your obliques and back body can cause further widening of your diastasis — just like pulling a t-shirt tight from behind will stretch the front 🤯

You can find a full, 12 week postpartum rehab program to help heal your diastasis in my Movement Through Motherhood app that has helped over 10,000 women move through pregnancy, postpartum and beyond feeling stronger and more confident in their bodies ❤️

Click the link in my bio to start your 7 day free trial today.

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