A Quick Guide For Safe Exercise After A C Section

C section births have become more prevalent nowadays for any wide variety of reasons which range from a fear or even the pain of delivery, designing a perfectly timed birth and finally the reason why the strategy was originally used in emergency births because the baby may have to be taken out as soon as possible to avoid potential harm to either mother or baby.

To many women however the addition of the scar to an already inflated tummy area could be a very big concern and one which causes many to choose to do the incorrect kinds of exercise after c section.

There are certain stuff that can be worked on to assist promote recovery and repair the damaged cells but unfortunately a lot of women unknowingly pick the wrong things to do.

The damage and injury caused to the abs after c section isn't as severe as most people believe because the incision used during a typical c section doesn't normally cut in to the muscles, it's only the outer sheath that wraps around the abdominal muscles (the aponeurosis) that is affected, following this each side from the rectus muscles are pulled apart.

Once the baby has been removed, the rectus sheath is repaired and then the muscles are realigned. From here onwards the recovery in the abdominals is the same as for any vaginal birth.

For both types of delivery the muscles will quickly realign themselves within three to four days. During this period only pelvic tilting exercises should be performed which will help to further tighten, strengthen and realign the abdominal muscles.

Within about 6 weeks the abdominal muscles should have fully recovered however this may take much more time if they were weak before or the pelvic tilting techniques haven't been practiced regularly.

Pelvic tilting exercises should start soon after delivery.

Pelvic tilting techniques are gentle movements which may be done seated, standing or lying, they don't require a large amount of effort, but can make a huge difference in both the rate of recovery, but the tightness in the stomach afterwards.

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES must you do sit ups or curl ups until the muscles have realigned and gotten stronger.

Doing this could lead to potential doming from the stomach because the gap between the muscles might be forced apart, possibly stretching the muscles wider, leading to long-term damage along with a rounded tummy which has hardly any or no possibility of ever being flat again.

It is very usual to feel numbness round the abdomen and a tingling or tightening round the scar, but you should be fine to do the pelvic tilting exercises which you understand.

For most new moms the largest area of concern would be the stomach, and exactly what do most people do once they wish to flatten their stomach, that's right you've guessed it - crunches.

Now even though you may have more sense than to attempt doing sit ups throughout the initial phases of your c section recovery, there's a choice of abdominal tightening or pelvic tilting movements that you can do and really in order to create a complete recovery ought to be done almost straight after giving birth.

In truth it is by not doing these tummy tightening exercises regularly in early stages that may even result in a rounded and bulbous tummy, with little shape or definition not just throughout your c section recovery but possibly forever.

Almost any kind of exercise after c section other than gentle walking and low level pelvic tilting movements should be left until after your post pregnancy check-up. Following this time you will need to make the decision whether or not you feel like you are capable of doing more.