Maintaining a strong core is important for both men and women. Keeping a healthy core is particularly challenging for women who've gone through a pregnancy and experienced diastasis recti, also known ...

Last winter, I watched my abs slowly fade away. I was maintaining my workouts and eating habits, yet my belly was growing with a baby on the way. I was pregnant and overjoyed, and a six-pack was the ...

No one is saying it’s easy to whip your abs into shape — baby or no baby. But you may be one of hundreds of thousands of people suffering from an incurable condition that is making matters worse: ...

A popped belly button and stretch marks aren’t the only changes your midsection goes through with a growing bump. After giving birth, you might have noticed that there’s a gap between the left and ...

Back in November, pro middle-distance runner Alysia Montaño underwent surgery to treat her diastasis recti—a partial or complete separation of the rectus abdominis (a.k.a. abdominal muscles), which ...

Babies are awesome. I can say this with absolute certainty since I have a six month old at home. They’re cute; they’re cuddly (especially when they’re tired); and their precious smiles and squeals are ...

If you’ve never had kids, it’s easy to assume that with plenty of crunches and a healthy diet, your belly will eventually go back to normal after you give birth. After all, plenty of women have babies ...

“Diastasis recti” means your belly sticks out because the space between your left and right belly muscles has widened. You might call it a “pooch.” It's very common among pregnant women. About ...

Pregnancy does some pretty incredible things to your body, but for many women, it can also leave you feeling a little unfamiliar in your own skin afterward. One of the most common changes is diastasis ...

Last week, NPR had a story that garnered a huge response from listeners and Shots readers. The story was on a medical condition that causes a soft, bulging belly, sometimes referred to as "mommy pooch ...