01/10/2020
5 COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT YOUR POSTPARTUM BODY
💥Your body is fully healed at 6 weeks.
👉🏽Your body has only just begun to heal. In fact, ligaments can take up to 280 days to heal.
💥C-Section mamas do not need pelvic floor rehab.
👉🏽While studies show that your pelvic floor strength and endurance is greater than vaginal delivery, it still just supported a growing uterus and baby for 9+ months and you may have still laboured.
💥You’ll p*e your pants when you sneeze of laugh.
👉🏽Incontinence after pregnancy and childbirth has been normalized however, it is anything but normal. It can affect your quality of life and can most often be fixed with proper pelvic rehab exercises.
💥The term postpartum only refers to the first few weeks after birth.
👉🏽Postpartum is forever. If you’ve had a baby, you are post partum.
💥You can go back to full fitness after the 6-week medical clearance.
👉🏽Did you know that this check up is the bare minimum? This means you can gradually start reintroducing movements and impact.
With this information, we hope that you will be able to take better care of your postpartum body and healing and learn to take it slow before you move on to high impact exercises to “lose the pregnancy weight” as it may affect your long term quality of life.
Join us for our PostNatal Pilates session if you think it will benefit you after you have given birth! ❤️