c section

Question
hello, i have recently become a fitness instructor and i have been speaking to a member about her c section she had several weeks ago....although she says the dr doesnt think she should be exercising, i was wondering if there was any information i could give her reguarding diet to rebuild the muscle that was cut....would something like protein shake be a wise substitute or addition to her diet??

thanks

Answer
Hi Henry,

First of all I am shocked.
Second of all I remain shocked.
What is this woman doing in your care after a SEVERAL WEEKS since giving birth!??
Unless you are helping her ease extreme pelvic instability or beginning to help her with perineum-vaginal muscle exercises to help prevent incontenency problems, she has no business seeking your help.

Ok, frustration vented: I know these women and it is their way of becoming woman enough again to feel they can cope with motherhood.
I presume she is not breastfeeding, so the shakes won't harm the poor baby, at least, but please,not only because I abhor these venemous shakes, but as an instructor you should know she does not need protein for recuperation! She does not need to build muscle, but heal what she has. Good blood will do the trick (make sure she is not aenemic, and has plenty of B6, and B12 for example). The muscle that was cut needs time to grow back together which is a healing process and not a building up process. Let's also not forget the scarring to the womb, which may form problems in later pregnancies....possibly more disconcerting than a flabby tum?

The dr. is totally right. She should not be exercising outside normal walks, cycling etc perhaps, at the most some light Yoga-type exercises for at least 4 months after the Caesarian. It, of course, depends on her fitness levels before hand. The fitter she was before, the more she can relax for a while now!

Her diet should be fresh, organic, full of life, love and joy: i.e. prepared from basic, pure ingredients and bursting with flavour and colour. She will otherwise spiral into an entirely materialistic attitude on childbirth, a "thing she achieved", the baby a "thing", her body the "victim". I weep. Her "radiance" is 3/4 of the baby's health at this early stage. They are extremely closely connected (a psychic will see an actual etheric umbillical solaplexus/heart cord).

What frustrates me here, Henry, is how this body of this woman is arching away from this child with her self-concern. This child is tomorrow's world. Her future carer (even if not directly). Your question focusses only on HER body. But she is not alone anymore at this moment in time. (Later she will be again - when the cuckoo flies the nest - that is the pain of motherhood; and bad mothers do not let go!)

It is great to challenge the body and build it up and even experiment with it as an "instrument" - no issues there in the cases of athletes, it has it's place. No problem with C-section either, if it saves lives. But so often it seems like we have a right to get things pain/effor free, and have "perfect" end results. It's not a perfect situation for the baby (needs the natural delivery for many natural functions to kick in naturally/optimally). Imperfections are the seeds of future deeds, and it takes courageous, self-sacrificing people to suffer for it. Tears, rips,sagging and all. Sweating at the gym and struggling with hard diets can be quite a sneaky surrogate (for many things)....

I very much like that you posed your question to me, Henry, it gave me a glimpse into your gym/job. I think you can bring about much change, on whatever small a scale it may yet be. Exciting change, that self-empowers women to listen to that special inner voice only women are born with. In your next life, you too, will get such a voice, and you don't want it to become something trodden upon by social standards. There is something very genuine about you and I hope you will advise your client with loving-kindness to just relax and build herself up nice and slow with good intuition and high quality food (which only your finer senese can source! - not labelled much....).

Take care of yourself and your clients,
love Evelyn.  

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