Once we have given birth, that we have adapted to the presence of that sweet baby that has come into our lives and that we have gotten used to sleeping little, the moment comes when every woman wants to feel like a woman again. You begin to recover good eating habits, to get ready a little more, to want to lose those kilos that you may still have, in short, to recover your body. In this mission that you have, hypopressive exercises during the postpartum period can become your best weapon to recover your posture after giving birth. 
We wanted to talk to Caroline Correia, a female physiotherapist, pelvic floor specialist and co-author with Pilar Rubio of the book, Embaraza, what now? so that she can guide us on what kind of exercises we should do in this period of our lives.
First hypopressive exercise for postpartum
- And why perform hypopressive exercises during the postpartum period? Because it will help us to re-educate our posture, to recover our pelvic floor tone and our sexual function, to improve our intestinal transit, to improve diastasis recti and to reduce back pain, so typical in this phase in which we are with our baby in arms
- For the first exercise, get on your knees, keep your legs hip-width apart, feet flat on the floor, as if you had a wall against your heels. The spine has to be well stretched, the shoulders separated from the ears, place the palms of the hands forward and, from here, start to breathe: inhale and release the air through the mouth. Repeat these cycles of breaths three times.
Second hypopressive exercise for postpartum
- Let’s go for the second position for performing hypopressives in the postpartum. We continue with the first and most important guideline for hypopressives: keep the spine as long as possible. Keep your legs apart, your pelvis in the center, and your shoulders well away from your ears. Stretch your arms and imagine that you want to touch the ground with your fingers.
- Push your elbows out, keep that feeling of tension, lean forward a little as if you were a block and begin to breathe in and out.
- If you have any questions about how to perform this type of hypopressives, watch the complete explanation that Caroline Correia has left us in the following video. You no longer have an excuse to start taking care of yourself after giving birth!