Bouncing Back After Birth

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Whether you delivered your baby through cesarean or vaginal birth, you will find these tips to be helpful in your journey to postpartum fitness.
For those who have delivered via cesarean: Please wait until you are fully healed before doing any of this. Your recovery is more important than anything. For those who gave birth vaginally: Wait a week after you finish postpartum bleeding before you start any of this. You should not stress your body out. You should focus on feeling better, getting acquainted  with your baby, and trying to rest.

Me and my daughter (9 months Postpartum)

One of the best things you can do to lose weight after pregnancy is to breastfeed. It may sound weird but breastfeeding is the best thing for you and your baby. Breastmilk is the best thing for your baby to ingest and making milk (which you actually do while feeding) can burn up to 300 calories a day. As your baby gets older and drinks more you will burn more calories.

This next tip goes along with the previous one. DRINK MORE WATER. You produce more milk when you drink more water. Water also helps your body's overall functionality meaning it helps you burn fat from doing everyday things. Adding lemon in your water also helps to burn fat.

This next tip is when you start getting a handle of being a new mother. Light bodyweight exercises help to build your muscles and strengthen them. Not only does doing those exercises burn calories but having bigger muscles means that when you use those muscles doing everyday task you burn more calories than before. Bigger muscles use burn more calories from just existing because every cell is alive and uses your stored energy as well as energy from your food. Don't be afraid to be strong ladies.
CAUTION: Do NOT do ab exercises until you have met with your doctor and they tell that your abs are no longer separated and that they are fully healed!

I hope this has been helpful. Thank you for reading. I appreciate any feedback.

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