Coming back to your body after becoming a mother is a unique process. Your baby is here, your life has changed completely, and somewhere between the fatigue, the new routines, and the emotional waves, you may notice that strange feeling of not fully recognizing your own body.

Understanding what happens to your body after pregnancy is the first step to healing it with love and awareness. No one tells you clearly enough, but the post-pregnancy body is never quite the same... and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. Sometimes, what changes also teaches. One of the most common transformations — which many women only discover after childbirth — is diastasis recti : a natural separation of the abdominal muscles that occurs when the body creates s