Why does the abdomen sag after childbirth? How do you get your body back in shape after giving birth?

After your natural or caesarean birth, you stand in front of your bedroom mirror after you return from the hospital, to be surprised that your stomach has not disappeared. How is this? Did you not give birth and the fetus and its water and placenta descend?? How did you keep your stomach as if you were pregnant??! Will she return to her pre-pregnancy position? And when??
I will answer all these questions, but first, there are two points that you must understand well:

1 Your belly has become this big not overnight, but rather gradually during 9 months, it is illogical to go away within 9 minutes or even 9 days it takes some time.
2 - You will certainly not look exactly like you were on your wedding night. You have become a mother and a complete woman, and a fully feminine woman does not resemble the body of girls.

Now what is your belly button made of after birth, when and how does it go away??!
First, the intestines and colon: the intestine swells under the influence of pregnancy hormones and relaxes and gives your belly a large size even in the first two months of your pregnancy, and the effect of pregnancy hormones on your intestines remains until 10 days after your birth, when the intestines return to normal... Your intestines 10 days after birth.

Secondly, the uterus: its size increases from the size of a pear before pregnancy to the size of the largest red watermelon before birth, and its weight increases from 50 grams before pregnancy to 1200 grams immediately after birth... The uterus needs 40 days after birth to return to a size close to its size before pregnancy. Reducing the size of your abdomen is the return of your uterus to its size after 40 days of birth.

Thirdly - the fat accumulated in the abdomen: the purpose of it is to give you a strategic reserve that you can spend on breastfeeding your child... If you breastfeed him naturally and pay attention to your diet, you will lose this fat within 3 months after birth, and it is the third thing that makes your stomach smaller.

Fourth, the abdominal wall muscles: the muscles of your abdominal wall gradually diverge during pregnancy to allow room for the growth of your fetus... Immediately after birth, your abdominal muscles are very far apart as in the figure, and it takes 6 months to return to its previous position, provided that your weight does not increase during this period and that you exercise such as walking Which you can start after a week after birth, running after 40 days, and sports to stretch the stomach muscles after 3 months...
My dear... If you pay more attention to your food and walk and move more, you will come back to being yourself before pregnancy more and more.