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C-Section Mommies-when were you allowed to start walking for exercise?
I am determined to lose baby weight and I know I can't start real workouts right away.
When is the earliest you can take real long walks? I am really excited to use my City Mini and walk with Miss Bean. Someone told me that you have to be careful for awhile-but if I can manage even a short walk 1 week PP, can I do it?
Also I might as well ask-when are we allowed to resume cardio (I did hip hop pre-pg and swam)
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Re: C-Section Mommies-when were you allowed to start walking for exercise?
I was out walking locally after my C-section within 10 days I think! DS was born in september so I wanted to get fresh air and exercise as much as we could before our dark cold winter set in!!
It's not so much the walking that's the issue, they really encourage walking right away - but you'll have to be careful with bending, the wound will be sore and takes a few weeks to heal, and even though at birth the baby will only be say 6lbs to what, 12 lbs or so  (scared ya right?) they won't want you lifting/bending with that weight for a week or two at least. I think at the 6 week checkup they gave the ok to resume light exercise but I blanked that out since i'm not really a "gym" afficianado 
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| Posted 1/7/10 7:06 PM |
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headoverheels
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Re: C-Section Mommies-when were you allowed to start walking for exercise?
I was walking about 2 weeks later - I would have gone earlier but DH was home so we were relaxing
As soon as you feel up to it, and take it easy, it's fine. I got the OK to exercise (yeah right  ) at 6 weeks.
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| Posted 1/7/10 7:09 PM |
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Deedlebugs
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Re: C-Section Mommies-when were you allowed to start walking for exercise?
I was walking right away (doc recommended it to heal faster). Any other exercise, they asked I wait till after my 6 weeks check-up.
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| Posted 1/7/10 7:14 PM |
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Re: C-Section Mommies-when were you allowed to start walking for exercise?
Posted by colette
even though at birth the baby will only be say 6lbs to what, 12 lbs or so (scared ya right?)
You just scared the everloving cr@p out of me woman!
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| Posted 1/7/10 7:26 PM |
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Re: C-Section Mommies-when were you allowed to start walking for exercise?
Posted by munchkinfacemama
Posted by colette
even though at birth the baby will only be say 6lbs to what, 12 lbs or so (scared ya right?)
You just scared the everloving cr@p out of me woman!
 Don't even laugh though, my teeeeny SIL had a 10+lb baby, followed by a 12lb 8oz humdinger baby, followed by a 9.5lb baby who they called PEANUT cause she was so tiny No G'Diabetes either. And my sil weighs about 104 and stands 5'1". Don't you love when people try to scare the pregnant lady? She had 3 sicilian sections (that's quoting dh, btw) so she was FINE, don't worry about a thing!
Oh and just wanna say too, don't freak yourself out about the weight. Getting exercise is great but TIME is your friend on that, it WILL come off, try to eat healthy but please give yourself and your body a little break before putting on the pressure to lose the pounds. The first 3 months I remember I ate like CRAP, cause you eat every meal with 1 hand, so there was a lot of pizza, hot dogs, etc. for me
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| Posted 1/7/10 8:46 PM |
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Re: C-Section Mommies-when were you allowed to start walking for exercise?
I was literally vacumming and running around in 7 days and everyone was yelling at me but they say 14 days.
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| Posted 1/7/10 8:47 PM |
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Diana1215
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Re: C-Section Mommies-when were you allowed to start walking for exercise?
The first csection I couldn't even imagine exercising at 6 weeks. I went for walks, but hardcore exercising wasn't until about 3.5 months.
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| Posted 1/7/10 8:52 PM |
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Re: C-Section Mommies-when were you allowed to start walking for exercise?
i went for walks with my DC around 2 weeks PP-i was DYING to get out there!
started runnning again at 7 wks PP but very light running
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| Posted 1/7/10 9:01 PM |
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