After giving birth to a baby, what problems are bothering you? 1, Frequent low back pain 2, Never-ending baby belly and potbelly 3, Pressure on the bladder leading to incontinence 4, Loose abdominal skin These symptoms are caused by the separation of the rectus abdominis muscle. To put it simply: During pregnancy, the skin of your abdomen stretches out (which moms-to-be know all too well), and unless you’re only 18 years old and your skin is as elastic as a rubber band, it’s unlikely to ever return to its former self, and that’s the price of pregnancy. In addition, your abs (those six-packs), get stretched and separated during pregnancy. Imagine that they were originally two vertical rows of muscles, each side consisting of three small rectangular muscles, perfectly and neatly arranged. During pregnancy, as the belly expands, the two vertical rows of muscles are stretched apart, causing the rectus abdominis to pull away from the sides of the white line of the abdomen and become separated. The greater the diastasis recti separation, the harder it is to get your belly back to flatness after delivery. Making your waistline several inches larger doesn’t matter how many Pilates fitness classes you take. Even if you do 1,000 crunches a day, your waistline is unlikely to return to its pre-pregnancy level. The solution: Tighten the rectus abdominis muscle, a plastic surgery procedure known as abdominoplasty, which some call a “tummy tuck”. Abdominoplasty is a surgical procedure that removes aging skin from the lower abdomen, tightens the skin-muscle-tendon system and reduces abdominal fat, solves the problems of sagging skin, muscle laxity and fat accumulation, and makes the abdomen flatter and more youthful, which is a way to solve the problem of the abdomen with better results at present. Some patients ask: Why can’t some hospitals do this procedure? Abdominal wall molding, is a de-liposculpture surgery carried out earlier. It is a level 4 program in the Ministry of Health’s classification of medical aesthetic programs, which is technically difficult and risky, and should be performed in a tertiary plastic surgery hospital or the plastic surgery department of a tertiary general hospital. Abdominoplasty can also help people with localized obesity in the waist and abdomen, accumulation of flab in the waist and abdomen, flaccid and sagging, which need to be combined with liposuction surgery.