Things to know about post natal exercise

  The body cannot regain strength immediately after giving child birth. Your body has gone through both mental and physical pressure during the pregnancy and it will take time to recover completely. <p>The body cannot regain strength immediately after giving child birth. Your body has gone through both mental and physical pressure during the pregnancy and it will take time to recover completely. You should not immediately start any post natal exercise as your body is not yet out of the phase of pregnancy and the hormones are still racing in your body. Hormones are produced at the time of pregnancy to allow soft tissues to become more elastic which gives extra space for the baby to relax. Your stretched tissues have also not fully gained their original shape even after few weeks of the delivery. So doctors also suggest for taking complete rest for some days.</p>

<p>Generally post natal exercises include those which enhance the strength of the pelvic floor muscles. As these muscles are stretched to adapt the growth of baby, they are loosened. These loosened muscles are responsible of causing stress incontinence problem in women. Only pelvic floor exercises can be continued even after the childbirth immediately. It does not affect the mother’s health adversely. Kegel exercise is a famous pelvic floor exercise which helps in improving the pelvic floor strength.<p>

<p>Apart from the inner health and body changes during and after childbirth, there is a very common change which all the women hate is that they gain weight which hampers to attain a perfect body shape. Thanks to post natal exercises which helps in attaining the shape which was before pregnancy. With the regular exercise and controlled diet you can wear you’re before pregnancy cloths. It is also seen that childbirth also gives chronic back pain to new mother, which is caused because of carrying baby for nine months. <a href="http://www.pelvicfloorassist.com.au/_c/pelvic-floor-muscles-pre-pregnancy-postnatal/">Post natal exercise</a> gives relief in the back pain also. You must ask your GP from when to start the exercise. Normally it takes 6-8 weeks to completely heel the body from inside. You must understand that every woman has different recovery time to get back to normal. You must not compare yourself from anyone. Until your doctor suggests you, you should not go to your previous exercise routine.</p>

<p>It happens that with your newborn you hardly get sound sleep. So, the night in which you could not sleep properly, don’t work out the next day. Avoiding it can badly affect your health and your child’s health too. So be careful and don’t be so specific about the exercises. Post natal exercise and activity can bring you back to the normal. You must take good care of yourself. Healthy diet and large water intake can help you to recover faster. Avoid running, jumping and doing heavy physical work after the childbirth. Your tissues and ligaments are still soft and under recovery process. Doing this can cause their damage.</p>

<p>Keep consulting your doctor and trainer even after weeks of delivery just to ensure that everything is recovering at right speed and time.</p>

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