What to do if your stomach is loose after giving birth

Many pregnant women will experience loose belly fat after giving birth. No matter what their belly was like before pregnancy, it is easy to have excess fat after giving birth. For women who love beauty, this situation is intolerable, and losing the fat in the abdomen caused by childbirth becomes the most important thing. So, what should you do if your belly is loose after giving birth? Let’s look at the solution below.

1. Exercise to tighten your lower abdomen

The most effective way to improve belly flab without rebound is to exercise, train your lower abdominal muscles, eliminate abdominal fat, and make it firm and elastic. After the mother has finished her confinement, she can start exercising once her physical fitness has recovered. In addition to aerobic exercises such as running, swimming, aerobics, yoga, and dancing, doing 50 sit-ups every day and walking with your abdomen contracted are also effective.

The most popular, simple and effective postpartum belly-slimming exercise is plank: plank is a muscle training method similar to push-ups. During the exercise, you mainly lie on your prone position. It can effectively exercise the transverse abdominal muscles. If you persist in doing it every day, you can effectively tighten your abdomen, lose your flabby belly, and shape your waist, abdomen and buttocks. Try to maintain each set for 60 seconds, 4 sets each time, 5 minutes a day.

Method: Lie prone, bend your elbows to support yourself on the ground, keep your shoulders and elbows perpendicular to the ground, place your feet on the ground, lift your body off the ground, straighten your torso, keep it in the same plane, tighten your abdominal muscles and pelvic floor muscles, look at the ground, and breathe evenly.

2. Abdominal essential oil or bath salt massage

Starting from the second or third week after delivery, you can use some mild massage oil, such as almond oil, olive oil, etc., to massage your abdomen. Gently massage in circular motions from bottom to top for about 15 minutes until you feel a slight warmth. It can accelerate blood circulation in the abdomen, tighten the skin, and help improve abdominal sagging and stretch marks.

Or when taking a bath, you can also apply bath salt on your abdomen, massage it for 10 minutes, and then take a shower. Coarse salt has a sweating effect. It can excrete waste and excess water from the body, promote skin metabolism, soften dirt, and make the skin delicate and tight.

3. Use a belly belt appropriately for the abdomen

The abdominal wall is stretched after childbirth, and it is not enough to rely solely on exercise to train the abdominal muscles. You may want to use the tightening function of the belly belt to reduce skin sagging, help the uterus return to its original shape, promote abdominal muscle recovery, and drive away the fat accumulated in the belly.

However, you should buy a belly belt specifically for postpartum women. It is recommended to use it promptly after delivery. For cesarean section, it should be used only after the wound is completely healed. For those who have not used it for more than 2 months, a reinforced type should be selected. Generally, it takes two months of use to return to the pre-pregnancy state. It only needs to be worn for about 8 hours a day. The tightness should be moderate. It is best not to use it when sleeping at night to avoid affecting blood circulation.