Recovery after twin birth

Calmwater ↓

Wed, Oct 30 2024, 10:26 am

My twins are bh 15m kh.. my question is, how does my stomach need to look like after all this stretch mark?
By my single pregnancy after month or two usually it's back to normal... but now my stomach still full of stretch marks and more like baggy stomach.... is this normal? Or sign of concern?

amother

Lime

Wed, Oct 30 2024, 10:29 am

Exercise. Sorry hon!

I laid on my back on a mat and 'walked' with my legs in the air and such similar exercises. Put my hands behind my head and lifted, up and down.
Single pregnancy tho.

amother

Pansy

Wed, Oct 30 2024, 10:50 am

The good news: it's normal.
The bad news: it may stay this way.

amother

Crystal

Wed, Oct 30 2024, 11:31 am

definitely normal. my twins changed the shape of my body.

amother

Cappuccino ↓

Wed, Oct 30 2024, 11:33 am

I am very thin and didn't have any stretch marks at all, I looked completely back to normal after my singletons, but after my twins I ended up with an empty bag of skin that never went away even when my weight was at its lowest.

amother

Lavender

Wed, Oct 30 2024, 11:42 am

Your body may never be the same again. Embrace every stretch mark as a badge of honor

amother

Daylily ↓

Wed, Oct 30 2024, 12:32 pm

Mimir wrote:

Took me around 6/7 months to get “flat” I have Diastas recti so I always look a big preg even tho I’m skinny

↑ Calmwater ↓

Wed, Oct 30 2024, 12:35 pm

I'm skinny too and flat but my stomach is baggy

amother

↑ Daylily ↓

Wed, Oct 30 2024, 12:36 pm

Mimir wrote:

I'm skinny too and flat but my stomach is baggy

I wore a belly binder. I asked b4 I left hospital and did PT and I can send you a video of what I do at home.

↑ Calmwater ↓

Wed, Oct 30 2024, 12:38 pm

No never heard of that.
Where can I do that?
And what does it help for?

quote="amother Daylily"]I wore a belly binder. I asked b4 I left hospital and did PT and I can send you a video of what I do at home.[/quote]

amother

↑ Daylily ↓

Wed, Oct 30 2024, 12:39 pm

Mimir wrote:

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It helps close your separation in your abs and help your stomach get flatter. I have done it but I am due soon bh So Ill try to do this also after this birth iyh.

amother

Latte

Wed, Oct 30 2024, 12:41 pm

amother Lime wrote:

Exercise. Sorry hon!

I laid on my back on a mat and 'walked' with my legs in the air and such similar exercises. Put my hands behind my head and lifted, up and down.
Single pregnancy tho.

Don't do these if you have Diastasis Recti which is very rare not to have if you had twins.
If so, you must go to a diastasis recti class with a specialized instructor who will teach you how to exercise to help you.
Exercising with that will exacerbate the stomach problem.

amother

↑ Daylily ↓

Wed, Oct 30 2024, 12:43 pm

amother Latte wrote:

Exactly some exercises like crunches/sit ups make diasitis worse.

amother

↑ Cappuccino ↓

Wed, Oct 30 2024, 1:07 pm

amother Daylily wrote:

It helps close your separation in your abs and help your stomach get flatter. I have done it but I am due soon bh So Ill try to do this also after this birth iyh.

For the record my baggy stomach has nothing to do with my muscles - it's literally a bag of stretched skin. By some miracle my muscles didn't separate even after twins.

amother

↑ Daylily ↓

Wed, Oct 30 2024, 1:53 pm

amother Cappuccino wrote:

For the record my baggy stomach has nothing to do with my muscles - it's literally a bag of stretched skin. By some miracle my muscles didn't separate even after twins.

So of the opposite, I still have a little bit of skin, but not that much.

amother

Outerspace ↓

Wed, Oct 30 2024, 1:56 pm

It’s been quite a few years and stretch marks never went away. Some ppl use creams to make stretch marks less noticeable.
I call them my war scars.

amother

↑ Cappuccino

Wed, Oct 30 2024, 2:08 pm

amother Daylily wrote:

So of the opposite, I still have a little bit of skin, but not that much.

When you lean all the way forward nothing sags? I guess it's to do with skin elasticity or something.

amother

↑ Daylily

Wed, Oct 30 2024, 2:09 pm

amother Cappuccino wrote:

When you lean all the way forward nothing sags? I guess it's to do with skin elasticity or something.

Not that much.

↑ Calmwater

Wed, Oct 30 2024, 5:45 pm

What creams I can use for it? Anyone used creams with good results too?

quote="amother Outerspace"]It’s been quite a few years and stretch marks never went away. Some ppl use creams to make stretch marks less noticeable.
I call them my war scars.[/quote]