Stomach muscle collapse and only 10weeks!

[captainbarnacle]

So I had a bath today, lay down and oh my god it's a vertical canyon from ribs to down there.

After I had DC2 2.5 years ago I had a few physio sessions to return my stomach muscles to some sort of normality. They got to 2 fingers width which I think was good! And I have gone to regular pilates classes since then. Now it's a good 4 fingers I can stick down there to my middle knuckles :(

Is anyone else in the same situation? I guess I cannot do any abs exercise now?

if it's like this at 10weeks, I dread to think what I will be like at the end :(

Mmmm, isn't that normal for your belly to do that??? if i think back my belly looked like that when i sat up at about 25 weeks but didn't know it was anything to do with muscle collapse . I wouldn't do any kind of abs exercise when pg.....but then again i wouldn't do it when NOT pg

I don't think it's normal for my stomach muscles to have already separated before I even have a bump or different clothes - nope! It took me months last time to get them back closer together (and my stomach is an utter mess).

Oh well :(