Postpartum Road to Recovery
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Hi, I’m Paden. And I’m here to share with you a little bit about my journey through pregnancy, of becoming a mom first time and what my road to recovery looked like. Since having a child and getting back to my typical fitness, something that’s always been really important to me, is to be an athlete feel like an athlete and have consistent training, it makes me happier, have better energy, and I just feel like it’s a huge piece of my self care, and something that it really prioritized during my fitness, or my pregnancy was fitness. And when I had my daughter, Kennedy, I was really excited to get back into fitness. And I was really shocked. Kind of even dismayed about what that journey actually turned out to be. And it was hard, it was about eight months of me feeling nervous in my workouts, even in a safe environment, like Gymnazo, I was always worried because pain would pop up in the most random places. I knew that I had been counterbalancing. And holding my daughter who was growing from eight pounds to 12 pounds to 18 pounds, and is now a whopping almost 30 pounds. And I’m used so used to carrying her in the randomness positions and picking her up in in weird motions. But I wasn’t training my body because I was still on this, this healing journey. I couldn’t do things like pick her up without pain. For months, I would breastfeed in this kind of a position and my neck and my shoulders would scream all throughout the day and just nag at me turning into headaches and didn’t make me want to be active. It made me want to hope that I could just heal and healing our bodies in miracle and it really can heal a lot. But facilitating that healing with intentional movement has been really the key for my return to feeling like I actually got my body back. It’s not just about losing the baby weight. It’s about feeling like yourself. Again, you can do things with confidence, you can hike up a hill without your back just throbbing that you can watch a movie without squinting because it’s so painful in your neck and your headache. And just having that ability to pick my daughter up without pain and be able, if she’s crying to comfort her and not try to hand her to somebody else as fast as possible and kind of try to side bend out of it. And, and those are small, subtle things. But I know I’m not the only mom that struggles with stuff like this. I mean, around my group of friends, we circle around, we start pouring wine and we start talking about what is the sacrifice of motherhood really look like and feel like and it’s not that glamorous. I mean, there’s things like peeing every time you jump, that is really, really, really common doesn’t mean it’s normal, but it’s common. There’s things that women experience where they’ve got prolapse, or they’ve got really intense symptoms that they’re concerned about. I mean, they’re they’re questioning if they can have more children. And that’s emotional, that’s a place of fear and just sadness that we can get to when we don’t feel like there’s an answer or a way back. And the one thing I can say from becoming a mom is I love my body so much more because of everything it just did. But I’m so thankful to have it back and kind of coming full circle has been possible through a new program Gymnazo launch back a few months ago called female core conversion. As soon as it started, I was in every week, at least once if not twice, really focusing on understanding what was going on. And now I can feel my abs again, I have had a three inch, two and a half inch gap of rectus Diastasis separation of my abdominal muscles and that has started coming back down. I’m about a one now which has been huge progress and I can feel my abs again as I work out which was always really kind of a sad piece that I was missing. And I’m just thankful that I can jump and I don’t pee anymore. It’s something I’m very conscientious about maintaining it’s not once you’re fixed you’re gone You’re good forever, but it’s something that I want to just maintain is that that core piece and I know women are built differently and there’s a lot our bodies can do but there’s definitely some stuff that we need to help assist it and so I’m very thankful to have a program to bring me full circle so now I can play with my daughter pain free and just really enjoy and step into the cool element of motherhood and not be burdened with feeling guilty or bad that my body’s not cooperating the way I had hoped.
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