Post partum exercise - abs

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Hopefully this is the right place to post this? Wasn’t sure if it should go in the post natal section....

I’m 6 months pp and going on holiday in a couple of months. Been doing plenty of running/cardio and shed the baby weight but I really want to tone up my tummy! It doesn’t look too bad considering but I used to do sit ups and crunches and was in really good shape. I had diastasis recti when baby was born and I know I can’t do these exercises as it could make any ab seperation worse. Can anyone suggest other ab workouts which are safe? Thanks!

I sympathize entirely, been and still am there trying to work on it, but which ones are safe for you will depend on your current level of fitness and how bad the seperation is. A minor seperation can take more than if you're 4+ fingers wide.

Pelvic tilts are supposed to be good for it, anything that works the obliques and pulls your muscles in rather than pushing those muscles out which is what sit ups do. A lot of them are on focusing on holding those muscles in while doing certain movements.

If you haven't already, I'd recommend putting diastasis recti exercises into google or youtube and having a look at some of the video workouts there.

Thank you so much for your reply.

I have what I think is a small gap - 2 fingers (slightly less). The last thing I want to do is make it worse! Have googled exercises but when I’m doing them I can’t feel anything - I was expecting to feel the burn you get when doing crunches ect but nothing and I’m therefore not sure I’m doing them correctly?

My level of fitness is good. I’m going to book a doctors appointment and try to get a Physio referral this week.

Ok so I went to the doctor who advised I have a slight gap. She said nothing to worry about and I could do exercises as normal. I asked about crunches and she said fine.....this goes against everything I’ve read online!!

Anyone got any experience of this?