Abdominal separation recovery

I still had a 3cm separation at 8 weeks, I can still feel it now as well but this was my 2nd baby. Your GP should have been able to tell you 🤦‍♀️ My GP got me to lie down on my back and tense my core and start to lift up a little bit as if doing a crunch and checked me then, you can kinda feel it yourself that way (just press your fingers together and push in a bit, you can feel the sides of your muscles). Mine never closed after my first pregnancy but about 1cm is considered healed and won't affect you going forwards. You're still not that far along pp so I wouldn't worry too much it does strengthen with time but you can also ask for a referral to the physio if your GP can't help. Or are there any GPs that deal with women's health at your surgery? I think three of the women at mine are all gynae backgrounds and they're all great for women's health issues.

After my first pregnancy I remember my midwife pushed her whole hand down into my stomach and I was horrified 🤣

There are exercises like deep breathing you can do to help strengthen the fascia under the muscles, Instagram is awash with fitness people that want to 'heal your core', just dont do crunches or other exercises that cause you to dome or create a bulge, if you are worried I really recommend a physio who handles postnatal women even for one session!

my GP was absolute rubbish if I’m honest! He wasn’t even going to check them at all until I asked because and then his reply was “oh you never told me I needed to examine your abdominals” ?!?

No one checked at all with my first baby either!!

I’ll definitely ask for another check with a different GP ! Xx