2006-06-23 08:21:39 · 9 answers · asked by annisaac 1 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Pregnancy
exercise. My wife's parents got her a personal trainer and its working wonders.
2006-06-23 08:25:10 · answer #1 · answered by proffalken1975 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are not breastfeeding and recovered from the surgery, your best bet is to go low cal, low fat for your diet. Lots of fruit and fresh veggies will help you cut back on calories and depending where you live, this is probably the perfect time of year to get them.
Try walking your baby for 1/2 hour each day. Drink tons of water. Once your doc okays exercise again, get yourself a couple of hand held weights, like 2-5 lbs. Use them to stretch your waist, left side and right. Pilate's works wonders. Get a short video or DVD 1/2 hour work out, don't go for the hour to hour and half one, it's too much, you won't follow through. I used that after my C...it works on strengthening your back too, which is what you really need after pregnancy.
Good luck, it's hard I know, but it does happen!
2006-06-23 15:30:48 · answer #2 · answered by barefeet561 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
After mine my mom suggested keeping my belly muscles tight/tensed constantly throughout the day. Impossible to do, but keeping the muscles tense helped to build some of the muscle back. Other than that, eat healthy and exercise - that sounds impossible too - after you have a baby when do you have time to exercise?! Good luck - I'm still fighting the c-section belly myself!
2006-06-23 15:26:45 · answer #3 · answered by pjt 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know. Mine went away pretty quickly after having my second baby. (I was busy chasing his older brother around!) Although I never did lose it completely. I've always had a bit of a "pooch" where my uterus was (even before getting pregnant). I think it's genetic in my family. Now I look at my tummy as proof that, after having two children, I'm fertile, I'm curvy in all the right places, and I love my body!
It's a fact...women DO change after being pregnant...especially after multiple pregnancies. Unless you have so much fat/loose skin on your abdomen that it's practically hanging to your knees, I'd thank God you have a healthy, happy baby and forget about the extra 5 - 10 pounds that you might have left to lose. Women aren't meant to look like praying mantises...we're women...we're supposed to have curves in certain places!
2006-06-23 15:35:46 · answer #4 · answered by brevejunkie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd like to know that myself. I had to have 2 C-Sections. While I'm still a very petite person the belly muscles are destroyed. Sit ups just don't work.
2006-06-23 15:25:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Drink plenty of water and try to do sit ups and 6 inches. I had a c- section in March and that belly fat is extremely hard to loose. Its hard but just keep at it.
2006-06-23 15:25:44 · answer #6 · answered by Kimmie05 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Breastfeeding
2006-06-30 12:35:19 · answer #7 · answered by ilikesew 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Excercise. Your doctor can give you good exercises to help with you lose you c-section belly. Good Luck!
2006-06-23 15:37:19 · answer #8 · answered by I love my babies 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i was lucky and lost it all without having to do anything, i am pregnant again, and having another c-section..hopefully i will have the same luck
2006-06-23 15:50:02 · answer #9 · answered by Laura333 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋