Compress me!

During my pregnancy I was a bit concerned about not necessarily losing the baby weight, but ensuring my tummy went back to pre baby size. I saw a lot of advertisements in the pregnancy magazines for SRC recovery shorts:http://www.recoveryshorts.com/. I ended up getting a pair of eBay really cheap. These shorts are great and I do recommend them - especially if you suffered from pelvic instability like I did. The downside for me was that it's really hot where I live and these shorts made me sweat which just wasn't good for 'that' area. I gave them a go again 2weeks post baby and they still we're highly uncomfortable because of the heat :-(.

My physio had told me that I had some stomach muscle separation. She said to just get a spanx like garment from Target and not to spend to much money. A month before baby was due I panicked and spent $128 online at Figure 8 Maternity:http://www.figure8maternity.com/postpartum.cfm. See previous post about the Belly Bandit and a splint belt and DVD for my stomach separation. Then just to be sure I bought a twenty dollar spanx like singlet from Trade Secrets! So due to the Xmas shipping delays the belly bandit and splint didn't turn up until a week and half after baby arrived. This turned out to be a blessing in disguise as I was forced to wear the spanx singlet instead - which worked perfectly, my physio was not kidding. A week after baby was born my Doctor was shocked that my uterus had contracted as well as it had. When I got the belly bandit it was not good, it was hard and uncomfortable and made me sweat! Putting that on EBay as its useless to me, I suspect it would still do the job but just very uncomfortably. The splint I'm still trying out so I will post in a few weeks how that has gone. So long story short, I recommend a basic cheap suck it in top over all the compression products they try to sell you!