How I've Been Dealing With My Diastasis Recti Up to 60% of women can experience diastasis recti during pregnancy or postpartum. If you have no idea what diastasis recti is and you can't tell from the image above it is a separation of your core muscles from either being weak before pregnancy or you possibly gained weight rapidly during pregnancy or you had a big baby. That strain on your muscles has them stretch out and then they don't rubberband back like we think they will. For the longest time I had no idea that I had diastasis recti after I had my second child. After my first I had my Dr check me she said I was good to go with a regular exercise routine and that my core felt strong so after my second I didn't even bother with getting checked. I was so wrong with not getting checked out. I started working out and doing everything as I normally did. Little did I know I was making things way worse. I was working so hard to try to get my body back ...
We all have those days where we just want to take a day off from picking up and scrubbing the dishes because mom life is tiring darn it! Well sometimes that day off can turn into two days off or the whole weekend (nothing wrong with that!), and come Monday you kick yourself for putting the cleaning off for so long. It happens to everyone and its normal, but what do we do when we are overwhelmed with the mess? I have my #1 tip for you. Its not magic, its nothing mind-blowing. You ready to know what it is? I just start somewhere. Once I talk myself into cleaning after wanting to cry over the stack of dishes in the sink, the toys strewn throughout the house from my two girls or, my own nightmare, Mt laundry that you know will take forever to fold and put away. You ready to know what it is? I just start somewhere. I pick the room that I can get done the quickest and easiest first. Seeing one room nice and clean makes it easier to want to clean the other rooms. It really ne...
I've Been Getting My Sh*t Together I'm going to keep this short and sweet! I've been a little busy with life and GETTING MY NEW SITE TOGETHER! Yes you read that right, soon I will have a new site up and will be sharing all of my advice and trials and errors on there so I will keep you updated and soon will share the new link!
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