The other day I tried out the pilates/yoga class at the gym. (I refuse to call it "pi-yo" like they do. LAME) After the class I talked to a woman who has three kids under three; three month old twins and a two and a halfer. She had a c-section with the twins, so I asked her if she, too, felt like her c-section incision was going to split open during the abdominal exercises. She looked at me all concerned and asked when I’d had my c-section. I told her two and a half years ago. Hmmmm, she said, I didn’t feel that at all, but I started doing sit ups six weeks postpartum.
Yeah.
I, uh, *knew* I was supposed to do that. But I forgot. For two and a half years. Glad she reminded me.
you know, not that i couldn’t have read a book or something, but NO ONE told me to do sit ups or ab exercises after my c-section.
hmpf
ha! That’s like the reason I cannot bend my left big toe. I didn’t flex it enough post-surgery. Really interferes with picking stuff up off the floor, you know, when my hands are full. Yeah, YOU KNOW!!
meh…I didn’t really bother…first caesar I was pregnant 12 weeks later, second one I was too busy expressing, and sitting next to a crib.
I’ll have to learn to play on it as the kids get older tho…there’s gotta be something in it for me.
my mom is aready asking me when I can start doing crunches. Arg. At our last check in with the MW, before we came home, she was going on and on about how I needed to swim immediately. MW put the lid on that idea pretty quickly, epsecially after my imploring looks in her direction – um, no! Chlorine, pool water, open cervix, incision = no, no, no! I can tell she’s still dissapointed she can’t get me into the pool though, She’s so exercise obsessed!