How many days after cesarean section can you exercise?

No matter whether it is a natural birth or a cesarean section, you still have to lie in bed for a month after giving birth. Many female friends feel scared when they think about it and want to get out of bed and exercise. However, they cannot get out of bed too early to avoid causing greater harm to the body. So how many days after a cesarean section can you exercise? Let us find out together.

1. Mothers who give birth naturally and do not have severe postpartum hemorrhage can get out of bed and walk around 2-3 days after giving birth, and do some pelvic contraction exercises 3-5 days after giving birth. Two weeks after giving birth, they can do soft gymnastics and stretching exercises. As for mothers who gave birth by caesarean section, it depends on the healing of the wound. Generally speaking, they can start stretching exercises one month after giving birth.

2. In terms of diet control, breastfeeding mothers should consume no less than 2000 kcal of calories per day. If they do not breastfeed after giving birth, the calorie intake should be controlled within 1500 kcal. And reduce the intake of cooking oil and sugar, increase the intake of vegetables, it is recommended to eat more foods that are easy to make you feel full and have low calorie content, such as seaweed and mushrooms. The food mainly consists of high-quality protein foods such as meat, fresh fish, soybeans, tofu, and milk. Replace meat with fish, replace snacks with fruits, eat more vegetables and less rice.

3. Aerobic exercise, such as outdoor jogging, is the best way to burn calories and lose fat. Not only that, continuous aerobic exercise can increase the body's muscles and increase the basal metabolic rate, which is faster and more effective than dieting alone and is less likely to rebound. The specific method is to jog or walk 5 kilometers every day and do at least half an hour of aerobic exercise every day. At the same time, Runner sincerely reminds you that jogging should be persisted for more than 3 months, and not be intermittent.