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What is abdominal separation?

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. 

Everyone has experienced stress at some point in their lives. Stress, in small doses (and regardless of how unpleasant it feels), is a normal feeling. Often it is beneficial because it allows us to rise to many challenges.