Step up instructions:
- Find an 8 to 12 inch box or stool
- Elevate one leg on the box or stool
- Engage your core
- Lift your body up until your body is fully on top of the box or stool
- Lower yourself down slowly
- Repeat
Take note:
Ensure knees are aligned with toes
Avoid kicking to bring your body up
Side lunge instructions:
- Stand with your legs hip-width apart
- Bend your knees as you move to one side
- Lower yourself down
- Exhale through mouth while ascending back to original position
- Repeat
Take note:
Ensure knees are aligned with toes
Keep chest up, facing forward
Leg lift instructions:
- Stand with legs shoulder-width apart
- Lean slightly forward, using your hands to support yourself against the wall
- Lift up one leg to the back while keeping elevated knee straight
- Lower slightly just before it touches the ground
- Repeat
Take note:
Maintain a straight back
Rynette is a certified Babywearing Consultant with Die Trageschule Dresden and an experienced mother of three (with number four on the way). An advocate for attachment theory, she empowers parents to be confident and liberated caregivers through babywearing. Her background in psychology and communications has enabled her to assist many parents in understanding their baby’s needs and cues, as well as to understand how babywearing benefits a child’s development.
Rynette is also the Founder of 13Thirteen, a consultancy, retail and distribution business specialising in babywearing, skin-to-skin garments and their own line of diaper backpacks. She offers private and group babywearing consultations and workshops, as well as rental of baby carriers in Singapore. To find out more, check out her website and visit her Facebook and Instagram pages.
