Benefits of yoga for women after childbirth

After giving birth, women often feel uncomfortable with their figure. This is because in order to make the fetus in the belly healthier, women will eat a lot of high-fat, high-protein foods, so their weight will increase steadily. In addition, giving birth will consume a lot of women's energy, and the women's skin will become loose, especially the pelvic muscles will become loose due to childbirth. If the recovery is not good, they may suffer from urinary and fecal incontinence. Therefore, how to help women recover becomes a very important issue. Yoga can tighten muscles, so what are the benefits of doing yoga for women after childbirth?

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.

There are many benefits of doing yoga for women after childbirth. Not only will the mother's buttocks muscles become very tight, but it also has a very good effect on the female pelvis. Yoga can calm the mind. With the development of society, many women have postpartum anxiety after giving birth. Therefore, practicing yoga more often will not only make the body healthier, but also make the mood better.