As it stands now, women are uninfor

As it stands now, women are uninformed about these abdominal chal-lenges. No one is telling them what diastasis recti is, how to minimize it in pregnancy, or when and how to heal it. Women are finding out about it months or years later, often through social media, and then feel let down by their health care professionals and wonder why no one told them about it. Research is now pointing to the fact that every woman will have some degree of diastasis recti in or after pregnancy, but mainstream health care disregards it, viewing it only as a cosmetic issue. But it is more than that. Diastasis is non-optimal biomechanics. Because no information is shared with women in pregnancy and no one is checking for it postpartum, women are suffering and left to feel it is just a part of becoming a mother that they have to live with forever. Fortunately, you have the opportunity in pregnancy to minimize the strain on the connective tissue, therefore minimizing the resulting diastasis recti and other dysfunctions. Paying attention to the way you stand, sit, and move will go a long way toward preserving your abdominal wall and overall core.