Baby Saul is fed up with her job and her colleagues. Her love life is permanently casual, she's grieving for her dad, and if her mother and the aunties don't stop asking her when she's going to settle down and start having babies, she might just lose it. Baby Does A Runner is a brilliant story about Baby, or Simran; a British-born Sikh woman who is single, in her 30s and struggling a bit with not getting the same opportunities in life as her male counterparts at work, and with the loss of her father. Baby, who prefers to call herself by her chosen name of Simran, has passed another birthday as a single, career woman, living in Manchester and doing a job she is over-qualified for and should have been promoted in a long time ago. She's having an unsatisfactory relationship with a colleague and seems to spend a lot of time feeling unfulfilled but without understanding why. How many of us are making choices based on what we actually want to do?” Rani asks, “and how many of us are doing it because it’s what’s expected of us? And those are the things that I’m personally grappling with.” Try some postnatal yoga or Pilates as a starting point, and avoid intense core exercises like the plank and sit-ups. When you start running, try to incorporate some gentle exercises that will build strength in your core to reduce the risk of injuries.

When Baby heads off to India to discover more about her family, ironically and unexpectedly, she feels that she doesn’t fit in there either. She feels marked out as ‘different’ because she is an Indian living abroad, whilst discovering that she is equally guilty of having incorrect regressive assumptions about modern day India, as well as ignorance of its past.Roy has been working in the arts both in India and the UK for many years now and first entered into the world of production, through TV drama, having been involved in theatre in Delhi initially.

If you ever feel a strain or pain while exercising, visit your GP or ask to see a postnatal physiotherapist. When is running after birth not a good idea? You might like the idea of taking your baby on runs with you – it’s a great way to get fresh air and bond with your baby at the same time. To do this you’ll need a specialist jogging buggy, i.e. one that has a five-point harness for the baby, fixed front wheels, hand-operated brakes, rear-wheel suspension, pneumatic tyres, three wheels and a wrist strap. One in three women experience urinary leaks post baby, and running can exacerbate this. But it doesn’t need to become a fact of life. For most women, taking the time to build strength in their pelvic floor should result in regaining full control of their bladder. I wanted to wait, not only because I needed to recover, but also because I needed to prioritise sleep!” 7. Time your feeds DESCRIBED in many quarters as a “game changer”, award-winning author and journalist Angela Saini was in London talking about her new book, ‘ The Patriarchs’ this week.I went into this book expecting some frivolous fun, literary romcom as it were. And it does have fun bits, it does have romance and comedy. But it also delves into religion, culture, history, generational trauma, in an accessible and approachable manner. These were all handled with sensitivity and respect, and it’s clear that the author has a lot of love for India.