Benefits of yoga for women after childbirth

Many people know that yoga has a huge impact on people. It can not only help people lose excess fat, but also tighten muscles and make people's figures better. Yoga can also improve people's temperament and intelligence. Therefore, more and more people regularly exercise through yoga. Postpartum is a relatively difficult stage in a woman’s life. Not only does she have to take care of her child, but she also has to deal with her seriously out-of-shape figure. In order to improve her condition, many postpartum women often practice yoga. Do you know what are the benefits of postpartum yoga?

After pregnancy and childbirth, the body shapes of many women have changed, and the pelvic floor support tissues and ligaments have become loose. At this time, practicing yoga can make many poses easier to complete, and moderate postpartum yoga exercises can also help new mothers recover. The specific poses, regular breathing and calming meditation in postpartum yoga can also help soothe the psychological anxiety of new mothers.

1. Get back in shape

Postpartum yoga can enhance the elasticity of the new mother's perineal muscles, promote uterine contraction, prevent the uterus, bladder, and vagina from falling, and help the uterus return to its normal position. Moreover, postpartum yoga can improve blood circulation, reduce body fat accumulation, restore skin tension, and help new mothers return to their pre-pregnancy body shape.

2. Improve bad posture

Because women undergo many physiological changes during pregnancy, they are prone to poor posture, such as forward shifting of the body's center of gravity, cervical lordosis, forward pulling of the shoulder blades, forward tilt of the pelvis, and shifting of the center of gravity to the heels. Holding a baby after delivery can also easily shift the body's center of gravity forward. This can cause postpartum neck, back, pelvic and heel pain. Practicing yoga can help improve these bad postures.

3. Improve foot edema

Women are prone to lower limb edema during pregnancy. Yoga practice helps promote blood flow and improve metabolism in the body, thereby improving leg edema and varicose veins in the lower limbs caused by fetal compression of the inferior vena cava in new mothers.

4. Helps the body recover

After pregnancy and childbirth, new mothers will feel physically weakened and mentally exhausted, and proper yoga practice can be very helpful in restoring physical fitness after childbirth.

5. Strengthen arm muscle strength

Yoga can help reduce excess fat on the arms and also help strengthen the arm muscles, helping new mothers to complete tasks that require arm strength, such as holding and bathing the baby.

6. Restore abdominal and pelvic floor muscle tension

Due to childbirth, new mothers are prone to loose abdominal muscle tissue and weakened tension. Yoga training helps to restore the abdominal and pelvic muscles, enhance the support of the organs in the pelvis, and effectively prevent stress urinary incontinence.

Looking at the situations introduced above, we have learned that there are many benefits of postpartum yoga, and for women it can not only help them regain their figure, but also prevent gynecological diseases. So it is a very good exercise. However, we must also know that the mother’s body will be very weak and she cannot exercise immediately. The mother can only do yoga after at least 6-10 weeks.