Shortly after my third baby was born, the kids and I were looking for a fun craft to do during the summer. I spent some time looking around online for ideas and stumbled accross instructions for making a hula hoop. Wow, did that look fun, and off we were to home depot buying supplies. Now I have a box full of more glittery tape then you could imagine and great plans of making more hoops. The kids and I spent a whole week just making hula hoops. I realized something when we made the hoops and looked in to hooping a bit more. I realized that adults need adult sized hoops and that is why a lot of adults can rarely hula hoop, because they’re using those old WHAM-O hula hoops that were made for children. I couldn’t believe how EASY it was to hoop with the right sized hoop.
Fast forward 3 years, 1 more baby and currently in a new pregnancy. It was summer time and I wanted to hoop, although I was not sure what the safety was because I was pregnant. So I did a whole lot of searching online and found that there is actually A LOT of pregnant women hooping for fitness and health during their pregnancies. I even found a hoop that is made just for pregnant women (and I bought it), it’s called the PREG-O Pregnancy Fitness Hoop. It comes with an e-booklet on how to adjust some of the moves to accomodate a growing belly.
There is a great article about hooping for fertility and for pregnancy health on Holistic Kid. It’s worth a read. If you are interested in learning more about hooping your way to a healthy pregnancy, please let me know, I would love to share my resources with you. All of my doula clients have my PREG-O hoop available for them if they want to give it a go.
Relating to my last post, when I was at The Farm, we stayed with a wonderful woman who hooped!! She had a hoop there that we could use and it was amazing. There we were, on the Bloomfield’s deck, looking over the Farm, hooping. it was surreal.
**like everything else that you do while pregnant, please do your research and check with your midwife or dr. to make sure it will work for you.
Hoopnotica no longer sells this product or supports pregnant women. Wondering why???
Weird! I have no idea why! In all reality, all you need is a slightly larger hoop that is a little lighter. Maybe HDPE 3/4″ tubing.