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April 21, 2025 15 mins

Have you got stomach separation after birth?

Help is here with this week's episode of The Expert Guide to Parenthood Podcast. It is quite normal for women to feel self-conscious about their bodies, particularly how our bodies change through pregnancy and the expectation that they will ‘bounce back’ after birth.

Many women worry about ‘abdominal separation’ or Diastasis Recti to use the correct medical term. In this week's episode we welcome back our Pelvic & Women's Heath Physiotherapist Expert Annette Beauchamp to talk all about this topic.

We discuss:

- What Diastasis Recti is

- How abdominal separation occurs

- How abdominal separation is diagnosed

- Does abdominal separation heal on its own or do you need professional support?

- Abdominal separation exercises recommended to help close the gap

- Exercises or activities that you should avoid which may potentially makes it worse

- When surgery may be considered

- The difference between Diastasis Recti and the Mama Pooch.

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