Rebuilt Physical Therapy | Pelvic + Performance PT

We tell pregnant and postpartum women “don’t sit up, coning and doming will wreck your core and you’ll have diastasis FORRRREEVVVEERR!” And yet…. Men, women who have never had a baby, and even babies cone and dome all the time and we say NOTHING! Even applaud how strong their core is. And we’re not worried, nor do we see, diastasis be a fear or problem for those populations. Begs the question: Why are we blaming core for diastasis in pregnancy and postpartum when it’s a normal tissue lengthening in pregnancy? And why are we deconditioning our 🤰and postpartum people by scaring them out of core??? Make it make sense!?

ps: thank you to my amazing husband @boomchunk for allowing me to film his belly on slow mo up close lol