Mount Pleasant Magazine May/June 2018

78 www.MountPleasantMagazine.com | www.ILoveMountPleasant.com | www.BestOfMP.com feature the place, your ligaments are lax, you are sleep-deprived and dealing with psychological stress, all while caring for a newborn baby. It takes at least a year for your body to recover from childbirth, but Zimmerman said many women who think they never had any issues later discover three to five years later that their shoulder or neck problem, for example, started when they had a baby. “I have clients in their 60s who I am now fixing orthopedic issues that stemmed from when they had a baby decades ago,” said Zimmerman. Zimmerman remarked that there are many red flags to look for postpartum. “If the circumference of your bra is bigger even after losing weight, that tells me the structure of your breathing has changed, and that will affect so much else,” she explained. “If you tend to swing your hips forward to hold your child or have to run to the bathroom before certain exercises, if there is a heaviness or pressure in your pelvis, bulging abdominals when sitting up, deep aches in the glutes or tailbone or generally feeling like your body is physically broken, those are all signs that you should seek help.” Her advice is to take the healing process slowly and to remember that just as pregnancy changes your whole body, the approach to wellness should also encompass the whole body. “Postnatal fitness is so much more than Kegels. You need to establish proper breathing and a great base of strength of core, hip and pelvic floor before advancing to a more intensive program,” she said. Beyond the physical aspects come the mental and emotional struggles that many mothers experience postpartum. It can indeed be a suffocatingly overwhelming feeling to suddenly be responsible for another person Our light recognizes the same light in all of us. SPECIAL ~ UNLIMITED YOGA FOR ONE WEEK $35! Check out all of our specials at yogadailymountpleasant.com The Shoppes at Seaside Farms | 1965 Riviera Dr. #12A (across from Opal) | Mount Pleasant • 843.388.5764 | yogadailymountpleasant.com TRICIA HUGHEY ( co-owner ) CELIA BALLOU KRISTA BLOCK JAIME DEBIASSE NICOLE FRAZIER JI HWANG SUSAN JOHNSON STACEY REAVIS DARRAGH SIMON