Dr Rukmini Iyer
obstetrician
Measured; individual risk first
Two Heartbeats
Conflicting advice arrives from every direction: stop everything, carry on as normal, buy this programme.
Planned · not started yet
Fitness & sport Living with uncertainty Competing advice Family home Hopeful Reflective
The premise
Conflicting advice arrives from every direction: stop everything, carry on as normal, buy this programme. Saoirse learns what evidence says about exercise during and after pregnancy, and how to listen to her own body when guidance runs out.
The protagonist
Saoirse Delacourt-Mensah — Amateur athlete staying active through pregnancy
The council
Every council member is an original fictional character. None represents, quotes or is endorsed by a real person.
Hedda Vollmer
women’s-health physiotherapist
Practical; the pelvic floor deserves attention, not fear
Dr Tobias Kincaid
exercise physiologist
Encouraging; effort guides intensity
How the story moves
Pregnancy and the first postnatal year; a complication in the third trimester changes her plans, and recovery after birth teaches a patience she never needed in sport.
What readers take away
- Benefits of activity in pregnancy
- Warning signs to stop exercising
- Adapting training by trimester
- Pelvic-floor health
- Abdominal separation (diastasis)
- Postnatal return to exercise
- Sleep and recovery with a newborn
- When to seek physiotherapy
- Adapt strength training during pregnancy
- Recognise pelvic girdle pain
- Return to running after birth safely
- Exercise while breastfeeding
The books
- 1First trimester Planned
- 2Second trimester Planned
- 3Third trimester Planned
- 4Postnatal Planned
Book titles are working titles and may change before publication. No book is on sale until the complete series is finished, checked and released.