PP Tummy

[dsaucone]

How does yours look and what are you doing/going to be doing to get it back (or have you given up all hope of it looking remotely the same again)? I took some pictures to remind myself.

[LoveMyJonah]

Mine is just destroyed from the c-section I'm hoping lots and lots and lots of pilates and yoga will help It's totally different than last time considering they ripped me open

[vivalamama]

I really think they ought to post pics of postpartum bellies in teen sex education materials... a few photos of my belly would be enough to scare anyone off of sex forever

Have you seen the Disney Pocahontas movie? My belly looks like Grandmother Willow's face. For some reason, after DD2's birth, the skin in my belly button has turned dark. Don't know what that's about. This time I got a bunch of stretch marks (after 2 pregnancies relatively stretch free) and it's all stretched and squishy and the stretch marks have made the whole area look like rumply sheets.

I do ab contractions... I'm only about 3 weeks postpartum and was never a fan of sit ups, so I just contract my ab muscles... I also try to do belly dancer moves like 'rolling' my abs, both up and down and diagonally- at first it is more of an intention than an actual move, but after a while your muscles get the picture and it seems to knit things back up quite well.