Prenatal and Postpartum Fitness Consulting

Catherine Cram, MS, is the owner of Comprehensive Fitness Consulting, a company that provides pre- and postnatal fitness certifications and information to hospitals, health & wellness organizations, and the military. The goal of Comprehensive Fitness is to provide the most current, medically based fitness information to pregnant and postpartum women and their health care providers.

Cram speaks regularly at health and medical conferences, and has been featured in articles on maternal fitness for the following publications:

• The American Journal of Medicine & Sports
• Women's Health and Fitness
• Glamour
• Pregnancy
• Baby Years
• Babytalk
• Parenting
• The Everything Total Fitness Book

Cram is the author of Fit Pregnancy for Dummies, published by Wiley Publishing in July 2004, and contributing author of Women’s Health Care in Physical Therapy:Principles and Practices for Rehabilitation Specialists (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2008). She is a maternal exercise consultant on the websites Babyfit.com and Pregnancytoday.com.

Cram has developed and was featured in two videos: "Developing a Pre- and Postnatal Fitness Program," and "Postpartum Recovery Techniques and Exercises" for the American College of Sports Medicine’s Healthy Learning Series. She was the fitness consultant on two maternal exercise DVDs: "Positive Prenatal Fitness,” and "Positive Postnatal Recovery.” She produced a training DVD for the University of Wisconsin School of Nursing on the effects of bed rest on pregnant women, and was featured in a University of Wisconsin Outreach Education video on postpartum recovery.

Cram earned her Masters Degree in exercise physiology from San Diego State University.