A guide to making a full physical recovery after giving birth offers a set of simple abdominal and breathing exercises designed to combat potential back problems and give new mothers a firmer, flatter, and stronger belly. Original. 60,000 first printing.[...]
Pregnancy naturally separates a mother's outermost abdominal muscles to make room for her growing uterus. Called a diastasis, this separation doesn't fully close up in 98 percent of new moms. The larger the diastasis, the weaker the muscles and the greater chance for mom to develop back problems dow[...]