Gentle exercise can be started whenever you feel ready if your delivery was without any complications. This could be walking, pelvic floor muscle exercises, breathing exercises, deep abdominal muscle activation, gentle stretches and exercising extremities to improve circulation. Appropriate exercises can help you regenerate, enhance circulation, prevent postnatal depression and may even boost your energy level.
If you had a cesarean section, you gave birth to your child just as well as the lady who had a vaginal delivery. You needed a lot of courage, you had to make great sacrifices and birth came with pain and struggle, and the result was your beautiful baby. By no means is it easier to give birth via a cesarean section than vaginally. The expression ‘too posh to push’ is a myth, because the regeneration process takes longer after a cesarean birth, the mental and emotional toll is often bigger and, despite it being common and birth being a natural process, delivering a baby with a cesarean section is major surgery.
When cesarean section is considered, it is for the safety and health of the baby or the mother- it is not to make birth ‘easier’.
Our pelvic floor muscles are a group of muscles that take the shape of a bowl and are situated at the bottom of our pelvis. The health of these muscles are essential for healthy bladder and bowel function as well as for sexual pleasure. Exercise for these muscles can help keep them in good shape, but lifestyle factors can make a huge difference as well.
Constipation usually causes one to strain repetitively, creating a downward pressure and stretch on the pelvic floor muscles, weakening them. Hemorrhoids and prolapse symptoms may be exacerbated by constipation.
