This comes from the ABC News Article
Published on August 03, 2023
Written by the Specialist Reporting Team's Mary Lloyd and Rhiannon Hobbins
Few moments are as momentous as the birth of a child.
New research suggests the number of Australian women suffering pelvic injury in childbirth is far higher than acknowledged
During pregnancy, when your uterus grows and your abdomen expands there is a gradual broadening of the connective tissue band that joins the two sides of abdominal muscles vertically down the midline. The outermost abdominal muscles that run next to the connecting band are your rectus abdominus muscles. The separation of these muscles is known as recti diastasis, or recti divarication.
I am not sure how 2023 has reached May and this is my first email of the year. I thought I would have more time as my girls entered the teenage years, but I have come to realise that was wishful thinking.