How can I get rid of my C-Section (x2) Overhang??????

[EvanMom]

What a great title. What a picture I must paint!

I have had 2 (emergency) C-Sections 15 months apart. I have lost loads of weight since ds2 born 6 months ago and am happy with my weight, but not the lovely bit of podgy flab sitting above my very neat, hardly visible C-scar.
How can I get rid of this?
I tried to do ONE sit-up yesterday and failed miserably. Husband had to help me in the end and even then I woke up this morning with that "blimey-I-must-have-exercised-loads-yesterday" feeling in my stomach.
Any other (sensible) suggestions, ladies?

oh squirmyworm...how sad. Not just the baby blues though. I took my two gorgeous baby sons around the supermarket today and the checkout lady was perhaps in her 50s and said "Ah, two boys eh? You'll have to have a third to get a girl. Sons.... they grow up, leave home, find a wife and then she takes over. You don't see much of them from then on. Girls... they always need their mother."
I left feeling really rubbish.
Not true..... is it?
(....WHAT is going on with this thread... no good news...)

Now that I've got back to my pre-pregnancy weight I have been wondering the same thing. When I get myself organised enough to get to work on time (managed it twice in 3½ weeks!) I'm going to take at lease one long lunch each week and go swimming.

I THOUGHT I had an overhang after dd1 and ds, both vaginal births, when I saw THE OVERHANG after dd2's emergency CS I realised that in comparison my stomach was relatively flat.

Is it just the emergencies that leaves such a contrast between upper belly and pube region?
(I've had 2)

oh Ailsa I'm so glad you posted that, you've made my evening. We are all talking about overhangs but you have the REAL low down on the natural vs. C-section overhang. Sounds like the latter is MUCH worse. Just imagine then - two Cs close together, like me!!! No wonder I've almost lost sight of my knickers . I was beginning to think I was making a fuss about nothing.

EM, don't believe it about girls needing their mums more. See my thread about my daddy-obsessed dd1.

I keep resolving to practise more pilates at home, but am just too knackered. Bizarrely, I didn't put on much weight with dd2 as opposed to dd1, but I contemplate the strange rumply vista of my tummy with considerable despair and horror I have to say.

What are the pants like, EM?

The pants won't win any sexy awards, but they definitely make the overhang a bit flatter. I tried them on with a skirt - great. With trousers they seem to give you a bit of a line on the bum as they are rather tight. Got the stomach sussed, only to have a problem with the bum now!!! What next?

Anyone know where you can get SEXY pants that make your stomach flatter and don't make your bottom bulge? I'm not asking a lot surely?

Evansmum I have had 2 sections, i emergency and one planned 22months apart. I still have a belly but I am so lazy and hate doing exercises but my husband commented that maybe I ought to tone up a bit ! Let me know what works for you. I have a very thin friend who is very athletic and she still has a bit that sticks out above the scar. It is harder i reckon when you have had your abdominals cut.

I can only think the celebs get back to normal because they have loads of time to exercise.