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You are still healing I would expect. Remember they cut through all your layers of tissue and muscles and that's pretty ma__sive. I'm 9wks pp and still get a bit of pain if I exercise my abs too much. I keep it fairly simple for exercise, and have been doing lots of cardio to try and get some of the weight off :)

Yeah, I agree with Suzie. I think the way they it explain it sometimes makes it seem like you should magically be all healed and back to your old self by the 6 week mark, and I just don't think that's the way it works. At least not for me!! Maybe just take it a little easier at first on your workouts?? I don't think there's anything wrong though from the sounds of it.

It is too soon to be doing abdominal work. My ob is a huge fitness buff and a repeat c'er. She said stick to cardio until about 10wks then SLOWLY start back on your abdominal workout. The mucles have been pulled apart and they need time to refuse. If you start to have muscle spasms, STOP! You have done too much. Try again the next day. I was about 14pp before I could do my usual routine.

I have always wondered this: Do they separate your abs for a C-section or do they actually slice them? If they slice them, then I can imagine that would be a problem with the crunches 6 weeks later. I had two C-sections, but was NOT doing crunches 6 weeks later so I am not much help in that department (LOL!).

Hi! I had an emergency c-section too, but I recovered really fast. In 12 hrs I was on my feet, took only ibuprofen for pain next day and nothing after that, but I also had some pain doing crunches. All together I was quite out of shape. So I started beginners abdominal excersise at 8 weeks, and that was only 3 sets of 10 a day not more. I think that abdominals get really streched during pregnancy that they need to recover in addition to all te pulling during C-section I think you just need a little more time. Take care

Yes the separate them. Only in extreme cases when the baby's head is buried in the pelvis to the cut. It takes the same amount of time to separate as it does to cut, so its only if they phyically can't get to the baby to they cut, which is really, really rare.