Obg

1. Mandeep Kaur
Associate Professor
Nightingale College of
Nursing

2. POST NATAL
EXERCISES

3. INTRODUCTION
• These should be started as soon as
possible in order to improve
circulation, strengthen pelvic floor
and abdominal muscles and prevent
long term problems.

4. BENEFITS
Help boost your mood
Help you to regain your pre-baby figure
and lose weight
Protect you from pains and give you
more energy if mother feeling tired
Improve blood circulation
Improve physical strength

5. TYPES

6. DEEP BREATHING
EXERCISES

7. CIRCULATORY EXERCISE
• Foot and leg exercises must be start from
first day of normal delivery.
• It involves extension, flexion, adduction,
abduction of leg and hands.
• Limb exercises and early ambulation
increase blood circulation
• If the edema occurs the foot of the bed
may be raised slightly.

8. NECK STRETCHES
• First drop your neck
forward
• Lift your head and drop
your right ear to your
right shoulder

9. Pelvic Tilt
• Do the pelvic tilt to strengthen your abdominal
muscles. Lie on your back on the floor with your
knees bent. Flatten your back against the floor by
tightening your abdominal muscles and bending
your pelvis up slightly. Hold for up to 10 seconds.

10. Sit-Ups
• Lie on your back with your knee bent
• Sit up and touch you knee.
• repeat at least 10 times

11. Hip hitching exercise
• Standing up straight with feet slightly
apart, weight evenly placed on both
feet.
• Hitch your hip up from your waist to
shorten your right leg bringing your
foot up off the floor.
• Keep the knee straight all the time.
Hold, then lower slowly and repeat on
the left leg.
It strenthens the gluteal Muscles.
• Repeat 3-5 times.

12. Leg Stretch
• Lie flat on the floor
• Place your hands just below
your knee for support
• Lift your other leg off the
floor at 45 degree angle
• Repeat 10 times alternating
legs

13. Elbow To Opposite Knee
• Lie on your back
• knee bent close to the chest
• arms behind head and elbows touching the
floor.
• Straighten right leg forward
• Working up to 15 repetitions

14. FLOOR PELVIC
MUSCLES

16. STRENGTHENING THE
ABDOMINAL MUSCLES
• Tighten the abdominal
muscles, lift head and
shoulder and lower slowly
• The abdominal muscles
should be contracted
released slowly
• Prone lying alternate leg
raising and lowering

17. EXCERCISES IN
CAESAREAN SECTION

18. First Day Postnatal
Exercises
Breathing exercises with a pillow held
over the wound
Foot and leg exercises are performed
to assist circulation

19. Second Day Postnatal
Exercises
Add pelvic floor exercises.
Abdominal exercises.
Pelvic tilting.
Continue deep Breathing
exercises.
Walk to prevent backache

20. SUMMARIZATION
• Postnatal exercises
• Types
• Benefits