Hello everyone - I have also had two C-sections. I am carrying 3 stone too much and have theglorious pouch :sigh:.
After a pregnancy some women can experience a separation of the muscles down the middle of their tummy and if you do a crunch you would be able to feel a dip just below your belly button. I had this after the second baby and I went to see a physiotherapist for special stomach exercises whichwere basically anything other than crunches. However, once the stomach muscles join back together then crunches are fine and there are no exercsies that you can't do after a c-section as ong as you take it easy and build up gradually.
Trouble is I think I took that a bit too literally and have hardly moved since my last birth nearly two years ago!
It's wierd isn't it, when your stomach feels so weak and jelly like...it just doesn't respond! But with efort we have every chance of recovering as anyone else. My sister had her first c-section about ten months ago and there is not a bump or lump in site.
C'mon girls we can do it!
I don't get the time to go to the gym these days so i have bought a load of home DVD's to workout to. If anyone likes this apporach i thoroughly recommend an instructer called Karen Voight. She is American and her technique is excellent; her tummy workouts are a killer but you can take it easy to begin with. I am just starting this week so I'm hoping to be a little more toned by Christmas.
