Bikram Yoga Portsmouth - 3 months post-partum

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3 months post-partum

Written by Sara Curry
Wednesday, 11 April 2007
It only took a couple of weeks for my breasts to feel okay in the cobra series. I spent a week or two just working around them and kind-of half-lying on them in the belly-down savasanas, but as soon as my milk supply regulated and I got used to it, it was fine. I have gotten my strength back in my arms, too, and can actually get my feet off the floor in the last part of locust again. I don't quite feel like my flexibility is back where it was, but 24 hours a day spent hunching over a baby will do that to you. Also, I know that the relaxin (ligament-softening hormone necessary for childbirth) stays in your body for up to nine months after delivery and I can definitely feel it. I still have that weird loosey-goosey feeling in my pelvis and strange discomfort in my sacrum. I spoke with another woman six months post-partum and she said she still doesn't feel quite the same especially in her pelvis. My strength, on the other hand, is building steadily. I am heartily impressed by the human body's ability to adapt throughout this process. For the first five days after the birth, I could actually feel my stretched-out rectus abdominus fold when I sat down. After a week, it had shortened to its original length (not quite strength at that point). Amazing. Just like most of us, Bella hates to do Cobra, too, but she has to.

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