What to do if postpartum recovery is not good

If postpartum recovery is not good, don’t just follow Internet celebrity tutorials and practice blindly at home. The first step is to go to the postpartum rehabilitation department of a regular hospital for a comprehensive assessment to find out the root cause of the problem and then make targeted adjustments. Most problems can be gradually improved. The biggest fear is that if you don’t understand the situation, you will push too hard without understanding the situation, which will turn a small problem into a chronic strain injury.

Speaking of which, I went to a rehabilitation clinic with my best friend a while ago. She was leaking urine every time she sneezed for 3 months. I followed the Kegel tutorials I saw online for almost half a month. Not only did the leakage not go away, but she also always felt a swollen feeling down there every time after going to the toilet. After a checkup, I found out that she had a mild anterior wall bulge and the abdominal pressure was too high when carrying a baby. Failure to find the right way to use Kegels is equivalent to adding a burden to the already fragile pelvic floor muscles, and the more she practiced, the worse it became.

Nowadays, the opinions on postpartum recovery are quite polarized. Some people say that it is all an IQ tax and that you can recover on your own by lying at home for a few months. Others say that you have to spend tens of thousands of dollars to go to a private institution for a complete package. In fact, both of these opinions are a bit one-sided. During the 42-day review, another friend of mine only had a finger-and-a-half rectus separation, her pelvic floor muscle strength was only slightly low, and there was no problem of urinary leakage or pain. The doctor just asked her to go home and hold the baby as little as possible, put a pillow behind her waist when breastfeeding, and stand against the wall for 10 minutes every day after meals to practice abdominal breathing. She didn't even do Kegels on purpose. When she went for the review after three months, everything was back to normal. However, if the rectus abdominis is separated by more than two fingers, urinary leakage, bulging organs, or the pubic symphysis is so painful that you can't even walk, it will be too inefficient to practice at home and may even aggravate the problem. It will save time to follow the doctor's instructions and cooperate with the equipment treatment or the rehabilitation practitioner's technique adjustment.

Many people tend to ignore posture issues. In the past, there was a mother in the community who kept complaining of back pain six months after giving birth. She went to check the rectus abdominis and pelvic floor muscles, but there was no problem. Later, it was discovered that she was always used to holding the baby on one hip, and her pelvis became tilted by almost 1 centimeter over time. After adjusting the posture of holding the baby, she followed a rehabilitation specialist for half a month to correct her posture, and the pain basically disappeared. To be honest, the postpartum body is really like an elastic band that has been stretched for ten months. The degree of stretch and the ability to rebound are different for everyone. There is really no universal recovery method. Don't just follow what others practice. Figure out where your own problems are first. It is much more useful than buying a dozen rehabilitation classes randomly.