The benefits of postpartum yoga

After pregnancy and delivery, many women have changed their body shape, and the supporting tissues and ligaments of the pelvic floor are relaxed. At this time, practicing yoga can make many postures easier to complete, and moderate postpartum yoga practice can also help new mothers recover. Specific posture, regular breathing and calm meditation in postpartum yoga also help to calm the psychological anxiety of new mothers.

1, get back in shape

Postpartum yoga can enhance the elasticity of perineal muscles of new mothers, promote uterine contraction, prevent the uterus, bladder and vagina from descending, and help the uterus return to its normal position. Moreover, postpartum yoga can improve blood circulation, reduce body fat accumulation, restore skin tension, and help new mothers recover their prenatal body shape.

Step 2 improve bad posture

Due to many physiological changes of women during pregnancy, it is easy to produce bad posture, such as body center of gravity moving forward, cervical vertebra protruding forward, scapula pulling forward, pelvis leaning forward, center of gravity moving to heel, etc. And holding the baby after delivery is also easy to move the center of gravity forward. Thus causing postpartum neck, back, pelvis and heel pain, practicing yoga is conducive to improving these bad postures.

3. Improve foot edema

Women are prone to edema of lower limbs during pregnancy. Yoga practice is conducive to promoting blood flow and improving metabolism in the body, thus improving leg edema and varicose veins of lower limbs caused by fetal compression of inferior vena cava.

Step 4 help your body recover

After pregnancy and childbirth, the new mother will feel weak and depressed. Proper yoga practice is of great help to restore postpartum physique.

5, strengthen the arm muscle strength

Yoga can reduce the excess fat on the arm, and also help to strengthen the muscle strength of the arm, helping new mothers to complete things that require arm strength, such as holding the baby and bathing the baby.

6, restore abdominal and pelvic floor muscle tension

Because of the birth, the new mother is prone to the phenomenon that the abdominal muscle tissue is slack and the tension becomes weak. Yoga training helps to restore abdominal and pelvic muscles, enhance the support of pelvic organs, and effectively prevent stress urinary incontinence.