Pregnancy does wild things to your body. The changes are extensive, particularly when it comes to your abdominal muscles, which not only stretch by more than 50 percent, but divide and separate to make room for your growing baby.
This separation is a condition called diastasis recti and the healing of it is crucial for any woman who has had a baby. If you don’t close the separation, you will most likely have postural issues, worsening back pain, and, yes, the dreaded mommy tummy.
Here are my top five moves to first close the separation then slowly progress and challenge the newfound connection. No crunches, please! A crunch will only pull the muscles further apart and make the diastasis recti worse.
Infographic by Inga Longauerova/Epoch Times; Photo by Samira Bouaou/Epoch Times
