The Importance Of Regular Exercise After A C Section

Exercise after c section will be one of the most distant things from your mind if you have just given birth, but neglecting this essential part of c section recovery will slow down the healing process and virtually eliminate your potential to ever have a flat stomach again.

The tendency for many new moms wanting to quickly lose pregnancy weight is to start immediately and do as much as they can physically do, but this has a number of potentially serious drawbacks: -

PROBLEM #1

Being tired all the time. If you have just had a c section, you are actually recovering from major surgery, so you simply won’t be able to do what you could have done even just a few weeks ago. If you try to do too much, you will just end up feeling drained and emotional and unable to cope with even the simplest of challenges.

PROBLEM #2

Tearing your scar. In effect your skin is trying to knit itself together over the wound, two edges attached either by staples or stitches. If you attempt to do any sort of exercise after c section that means you need to stretch or twist in any way then you will be regularly pulling both sides apart.

This will mean your scar takes much longer to repair and may lead to a greater build up of scar tissue, leaving you with a deep ridge instead of a flat line which is hardly visible in a few weeks.

PROBLEM #3

Not Doing The Right Things. For most new moms the biggest area of concern will be the stomach, and what do most people do when they want to tighten their stomach, that’s right you’ve guessed it - sit ups.

Hopefully You'll have more awareness than to try doing sit ups during the early stages of your c section recovery, there are a number of stomach tightening or pelvic tilting exercises that you can do and are in fact extremely vital to do practically straight after giving birth.

In fact it is no exaggeration to state that not doing these stomach firming exercises regularly in the early stages could result in a rounded and bulbous tummy, with no structure or definition that’s yours, not just for the next few weeks, but for the rest of your life.

Any type of exercise after c section other than just walking and certain, safe tummy tightening exercises should be avoided until at least your post pregnancy check up, but even then you'll need to judge yourself if you feel up to it or not.

Being active and frequently doing your pelvic tilting and pelvic floor exercises will really improve your c section recovery time and enable you to start being more active much quicker.