Today, I went for a prenatal workshop conducted by Mediacorp. The workshop is from 12.30-4.30pm, at Concorde Hotel function room. I was enticed by the event because there will be a mass prenatal yoga session. I thought it will be fun, and I haven’t tried prenatal yoga or yoga whatsoever before. Somemore $10 only, and you get to walk away with goodie bag worth $40!
When I reached the location, I was pleasantly surprised by the event. It seems very well organised and also a baby bazaar going on. Definitely better than what I expect for what I paid for.
I did the registration and received a T-shirt (sponsored by SPRING maternity wear). And a voucher to redeem the goodie bag after the event.
The room was already prep with chairs next to yoga mats.
We started out with breathing exercises. Feeling zen already.
And did alot of opening hip and stretching exercises, endurance exercises and some balancing poses. And also yoga dancing. I have to say I had fun and did pretty well for a first-timer! Do not that is important to get a certified pregnancy yoga instructor, instead of the normal yoga teachers. And during pregnancy, avoid crunches or jumping or too strenuous poses. It is about listening to your own body, and it is not a competition to get into certain advanced poses. And also I noticed is that pregnancy yoga incorporates pelvic muscles training into breathing exercises. Apparently, it will help during delivery.
And there was a tea session prepared for us by StemCord and AIA. Starving already la!
The Bee Hoon is good. I had 3 servings! And assorted danish/croissants and fruit platter. Tea/coffee etc. All not bad!
While eating, Stemcord and AIA staff will come approach you. There is no free food in the world ya. But they were not pushy or anything so it’s fine.
You can mingle with other mummies during the tea session, or go and visit the booths. Vendors include like Enfagrow, Beauty Mums and Babies, B&G lifecasting etc. There is even a photoshoot studio setup to take a complimentary 5R photo, but collection at their studio in Boon Lay. So I skipped that.
Then, we proceeded to a small room for the talks on cord blood banking, and baby first aid tips.
But kinda boring towards the end. Cos mummies-to-be don’t really have the same attention span as before haha.
The goodie bag consist of the yoga mat, and sponsored items (and tons of brochures):
I would like to compliment the organizers for a great line-up of the events, and I am definitely interested to sign-up for more of such workshops. 
xoxo,
singaporenoobmum 