Category: diastasis

So I realized that in all of my blog posting I have never posted REALLY about

THE MUMMY TUMMY

which is what I specifically do my training, classes and seminars about. I found out about it when I was pregnant with my 2nd child. I didn’t think I had “split stomach muscles.” But when I was getting up from laying on my back, I saw this really weird (to me ALIEN-LIKE) ridge that was protruding from my belly. I was TOTALLY grossed out by myself.

So I purchased the book that Tami, my sister, had been telling me about called “Lose Your Mummy Tummy” by Julie Tupler. She had learned about the split stomach muscles called “diastasis recti” in Physical Therapy school.

So we got the book, and the video and started encorporating the exercises into classes we were teaching.

After I had Tyler it took me 5 months to CLOSE my diastasis. I was VERY diligent with the exercises. I did have a setback at about the 3 month mark because I was doing them WRONG and closing the BOTTOM part of my diastasis but enlarging the upper portion of my diastasis. However, after babies # 2 and #3, I was able to go from a 32 inch waist to a 25 1/2 inch waist. (I will say after #3, it only took me 11 weeks, because I was doing the exercises TOTALLY correct.)

Then one fateful day I contacted Julie Tupler by email and told her I thought her work was brilliant and did she have any training programs. Well, I didn’t expect an email back in all honesty, but not only did she respond, she said – after many phone conversations – that she could train us and come an do a presentation and meet us in person.

So now (rigorous training programs later) my sister and I are the only ones in the midwest certified to do “Maternal Fitness” registered classes.

But the greatest part for me is that I can help women bring their diastasis together. They FEEL so much better about themselves, not to mention they LOOK better.

I had one girl in one of my classes close her diastasis from a 5 fingerwidth diastasis, to a 2 1/2 fingerwidth diastasis in ONE WEEK, which was STUNNING!

I will post more about the exercises but I think EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THIS. Your OB-GYN can tell you that you HAVE a diastasis, but are not trained to tell you how to BRING IT TOGETHER!!

One woman I taught last night was MAD. She told me, I have been doing CRUNCHES all these years (HORRIBLE HORRIBLE FOR PREGNANT AND POST-PARTUM WOMEN!!!!!) only to find out that THEY WERE MAKING THINGS WORSE!!”

She told me she would do CRUNCHES and actually get like a charley horse/spasm type of thing happen. I have had many women tell me this. In this woman’s case, she had a 5 fingerwidth diastasis. When she would do crunches, her abdomen would come forcefully forward, and it was not her muscles doing this – since she had a separation, but her INTENSTINES bulging forcefully forward. AND THIS IS VERY COMMON!! ( Its only a thin piece of connective tissue holding all your intestines in if you have a diastasis.) I told her to take that anger and to tell all the women that she knows!!!

It is HARD information to find and EVERY WOMAN needs to know about it!