Well, hello there. Welcome back. Today's topic is a really good one and I know it's actually a very

confusing topic. I know because when I'm reading DMs or when I do a post on diastasis recti, I will get so many comments that are like,

I think I have a hernia, I think I have DR, or do I have neither of them and I just have a weak core and I realized this whole subject area is just a

blurry mess. There's no black and right, there's lots of gray in the middle and so I want to break it down today and try to make it easy for you to understand what is a hernia.

And we're going to be talking mainly about hernia in the stomach region.

What is diastasis recti?

Also, I know that there's lots of different ways.

I've had people call it diastasis, diastasis, diastasis,

diastasis recti.

I've been to multiple therapists,

seeing them in person, been to conferences, and I still hear it multiple

different ways. So I'm sure that some people are saying you're saying it wrong.

It's all good, it's all gravy. I'm gonna call it diastasis. So to find out if you have a hernia, dystasis, or if maybe your

core is just super weak and you don't have either of them because sometimes

people don't fill in either of those categories but they're still like,

I still have kind of a rounded lower belly,

I still have back pain, I still have leakage.

So I'm gonna talk about that as a third option,

like what if you just simply have a weak core

and things you can think about to kind of improve that core and make it stronger?

Because the truth is, after you have children, especially, I mean truly anybody, even before kids, like I can probably admit that even before I had the twins I was not engaging my court correctly which caused me more problems after the twins which is why I fell so heavily into this region because I didn't know. So whether we're talking about

before kids or after kids, yes having a weak core is extremely common after kids, but it can't

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