When Can You Exercise After Birth

[Mosschops30]

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Personally I think wait until after your 6 week check and then you are the best judge as to when it's right for you. I know people who were back running within 2 weeks and don't seemed to have suffered for it but other friends who have also been very active pre-birth just felt 'wrong' and waited until nearer 12 weeks.

id trust a physio.
personally id take things fairly easy.do some stretches at home etc..walking blah blah.i was surprised at how weak i was.

its a marathon not a sprint!

look after yourself and big congrats on the baby.

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Mosschops: my stomach took AGES to go down but did so without any effort on my part! I was a jelly for several months though.

I thought once you had your 6 week check and was given the okay by the doctor.

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the 6 week check doesn't actually involve any serious checking of your body. so if you already feel fit before it I can't see it would make any difference to wait til a gp has gone through the motions.

I exercised quite a bit from about a month. was hampered mainly by large sore breasts more than anything else - it was not comfortable running or jumping for a while.

I had a c/s but was back doing spinning at the gym at 4wks. I did take it a little easier than normal but still wanted to burn those extra calories.

once you go to gym, you will be given "postnatal exercises" meaning gentle exercises and build up from there

kama - its true to listen to your body or otherwise you'll be knackered to look after baba too.

Personally this time round I went back to circuit traning classes after 3 weeks. Had a normal delivery, home the same day and felt fine. Laid off ab exercises for a few more weeks, however.

First time round, however, was a bit of a shock to the system (having a baby in the house I mean, not the birth, again normal easy delivery), and felt soooo tired, but I remember I was back in the gym after about 6 weeks.

First time round they kept changing the time and date of my post natel check so I didn't bother going. This time I went to post natel check but wish I hadn't bothered as it was imo a waste of time.

I'd say jst do what you can, so long as you feel ok, but p'haps your physio is advising 3 mths beacuse of ypur spd?

yes I think it might be different if you had spd.

I went to circuit training from a month after dd3's birth, and even signed a form to say I'd had my 6 month check and I pretended the baby was older than she was . but I always feel so much better for a bit of exercise.

SPD ???

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