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 ...

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 ...

Toward the end of your pregnancy or after giving birth, some women notice either an indentation or a bulge in the middle of their belly. This is likely a common condition known as diastasis recti.

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 ...

The medical name is diastasis recti, or rectus abdominis diastasis (RAD). The rectus abdominis muscles — those "six-pack" muscles of the abdominal wall — are separated by a piece of fibrous connective ...

Abdominal separation—or diastasis recti—is a common result of pregnancy changes in the body. Here are the facts about this postpartum condition. Months after I gave birth to my twins, a mom from a ...

Giving birth is no cakewalk, and postpartum recovery can be tough. If you feel like your belly is still soft, sore, and bulging months after giving birth, you're not alone. One of the most common ...

Diastasis recti is a condition where the ab muscles separate due to extreme pressure in the abdominal wall. Pregnancy and repeated heavy lifting are common causes of diastasis recti. Diastasis recti ...

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: ...