Postnatal Core Recovery + Restoration
Hypopressives is a brilliant way to regain stability and strength after childbirth, activating the transverse abdominis and other deep core muscles, which are essential for overall core health.
Build back your strength quietly, step by step, as you show up for yourself through the blur of the postpartum recovery period. The tender days and months after birth can be like a roller-coaster. Every time you take action, giving yourself 10mins to practice your rest breaths, you reinforce the belief that you’re capable and your body is not broken. Trusting your practice with patience, steadily and gently, will build you healthy habits along the way, in this new chapter of your life.
Back pain can be an issue for some women after childbirth; but though the breath and movement poses of Hypopressives you’ll develop better posture, which can help to alleviate back and shoulder girdle pain. This method is also effective in decreasing your waist circumference and bloating symptoms. Importantly, Hypopressives can help support a sense of calm and relaxation in your nervous system, in addition to significantly enhancing pelvic floor health and overall well-being.
There may not be the perfect moment, start your practice with the time and space that you have, where you are. Momentum builds through small, consistent action. Action creates change, and over time, those daily 10min moment practices add up as you witness your body transform and heal.
If you have attended a group class pre pregnancy you’ll have most of the basic tools you need to create your own practice postpartum. As soon as you find out you are pregnant, stop performing the vacuum but you can still attend the class with modifications. The rest breaths and many of the goddess poses can still be performed and they will help you to prepare your body for birth. You can book in a private session to have a bespoke postpartum recovery guide taught and created for you for your initial recovery period.
If you want to join a group class, it is recommend that you wait at least 6-8 weeks after a vaginal delivery before you begin and before introducing the vacuum maneuver (that is once you’ve had the all clear from your postnatal check). Please wait at least 12 weeks after a c-section. The rest breaths (without the vacuum) and many of the goddess poses can be performed through a healthy pregnancy.
Hypopressives offer so many brilliant pathway for postpartum recovery, including improved pelvic floor function, reduced symptoms of incontinence, helping to prevent issues like pelvic organ prolapse and enhancing core strength. It will help strengthen deep core muscles while lowering intra-thoracic /abdominal pressure, which in turn can alleviate issues like pelvic organ prolapse and promote better overall stability.
What matters most is that you keep moving, keep learning, and keep believing in and supporting the version of yourself that you are and that you’re becoming.