I’ll go through a series of blog posts on how to get a flat belly postpartum starting with some preventitive topics. It’s a lot easier to prevent an excessively flabby postpartum belly than to try to fix it!

1. Avoid getting a Diastasis Recti
Diastasis Recti is a separation of the 6-pack muscles, rectus abdominus, of the abdomen. It is common during pregnancy but for ideal postpartum recovery it would be better to prevent it from happening in the first place. Occasionally it is impossible to prevent due to the mom’s body structure and the baby needing more space to grow. In these cases it is fantastic to have an abdominal wall that can keep stretching and rectus abdominus muscles that can separate and allow the womb to grow bigger.