Ab check

[Tammyspq]

This may be a weird question but...as a fitness instructor I always hold my abs "tight", partly for form and partly for low-back support. Mainly because I have "pregnant belly" even when I'm not pregnant.

Does everyone hold in their abs and eventually show? I feel like I'm sucking in my baby too! I'm only in the middle of my 13 week so I know I wouldn't show yet but is it weird for me to continue to do this?

 

[Cathe Friedrich]

Hi Tammy! When you say that you are holding your abs tight, I'm assuming that you mean that you are keeping your core region enganged. Yes, I naturally have always done this too and did this in my pregnancies until there just came a point where nature took over. Yes, there does come a point where you may still consciously be doing this, but it is no longer showing that you are. Your belly will eventually show proud as a peacock, but its a beautiful thing!