I am almost 8 weeks postpartum from emergency c-section. I still have the “pouch” above my scar. I am walking at least an hour every day and eating healthy. Any tips to lose the pouch? I still have pain and can’t be physically active as I used to be..
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Following, im 3 weeks pp from emergency c section. My thoughts are its not fat but lose skin curious of what people recommend

My partner put together a website with some fitness plans designed for me following an emergency cesarean. It has three phases from gentle recovery to home training and each phase has three stages so you can ease your way up to the next level. The home training also incorporates exercises that can be safely done with a baby so also useful for dads or anyone really. He made it into a website so that other mums and people could benefit from it too. Would you like me to share the link? It's free and he has added things like the ability to add other people and encourage each other to do your exercises, gain achievements for exercise streaks etc to help with motivation, and you can change which exercise plan you are on at any time so you can increase or decrease the exercise frequency and intensity as needed to really support your recovery and fitness building in alignment with where you are at any time

It has nothing to do with how much exercise you do or don’t do. The ‘pouch’ is caused by everything being tight. Scar massage is a great tool to loosen the tissue! YouTube and Pelvic Floor Therapists are great tools to figure out how to do it and teach safe movements to reduce the pouch. I’m 19 months post unplanned csection and have been routinely doing scar massages / proper movements since 6 weeks post and have virtually no pouch.