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Labor to Lifting The ultimate postpartum recovery experience. Founder: Abigail Sommer

10/20/2026

“How does Cinderella treat people?”… TRICK OR TREAT 👻 save these questions for your interview 👇

🔖 Here’s all the questions I asked (I edited a few out):

What’s your full name?
How old are you?
How do you make friends at school? What do you say?
What are your most excited for at school?
What’s your favorite animal?
What are you going to be for Halloween?
Who is your favorite princess/superhero? Why?
What’s something you’re really good at?

Definitely doing this every year 🥹

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10/20/2026

The one thing I do after every single workout: I relax my pelvic floor.

Most moms are told to squeeze. Do Kegels at every red light. Squeeze through every rep, just in case.

But Kegels only help if your floor is actually weak. Mine was tight.

A weak floor can't generate force. A tight floor can't let go. It can look like the same symptoms, leaking or heaviness, with the opposite fix.

So I end every workout with pelvic floor relaxation, so I'm not hanging onto tension for the rest of the day.

Your pelvic floor should move with your breath, not clench through everything.

Comment BREATHE and I'll send you my diaphragmatic breathing guide to help you get started.

10/16/2026

Your first month back decides how the next six actually go.

1) Starting where you left off. Your last pre-pregnancy program is a goal, not a starting point. Beginning below what you can do is how you get to keep going.

2) Going straight to what you missed. Most women miss running and heavy lifting, which are the two highest-impact, highest-pressure things available. They come back, just not in week one.

3) Judging a session on soreness. Soreness tells you something was unfamiliar, not that it was useful. You're rebuilding a system, not hunting a feeling.

4) Ignoring coning and leaking because you're finally back. Those aren't signs you're weak or that you should stop. They're signs the load is too much today, and the load is adjustable.

5) Training five days and sleeping four hours. Frequency you can't recover from turns into a month of feeling worse and a quiet decision that exercise isn't for you right now.

Go slower than feels necessary for four weeks. You'll be further ahead by month three than the version of you who rushed.

Comment WORKOUTS and I'll send you my beginner postpartum workouts.

10/14/2026

Half the core cues you've been given are working... against you.

Sucking in and holding it is the worst of them. Constant tension has to go somewhere, and downward onto your pelvic floor is where it goes.

The two that actually rebuild things are the quiet ones. Let your ribs widen on the inhale. Exhale on the effort. That's your deep core working in the order it's supposed to.

Bracing hard has a place, under a heavy bar. It just isn't the tool for the rebuild, because it lets you skip the part that got switched off.

If a cue makes you hold your breath, it isn't the one.

Comment BREATHE and I'll send you my full diaphragmatic breathing guide.

10/12/2026

Your rehab is the two hundred times a day... you pick something up.

The car seat is the worst offender. Bending at the waist to lower it into the car is the longest lever and the worst angle you'll hit all day, and you do it constantly.

The fix isn't complicated. Get closer, squat instead of folding over, and exhale as you lift. Exhaling is the one people skip and it's the one that decides whether pressure goes down onto your floor or gets managed.

One-armed carrying isn't evil, it's just one-sided. Switch sides, and make sure it isn't the only loading your body sees.

Change how you lift all day and you'll feel it more than any extra set.

Comment CORE and I'll send you my free pelvic floor recovery guide.

10/09/2026

The top of this list is the thing you keep... skipping.

Sleep is the one everyone wants to skip past, because it's the one thing a newborn takes from you. But training is a stress you adapt to while you rest. Take away the rest and you're just accumulating the stress.

This is why two-a-days go in F tier right now. More sessions on less sleep isn't faster, it's debt.

Protein at breakfast and water while you feed are the cheapest wins available.
And one solid stretch of sleep a week, if it's possible for you and you can ask for help, will pay dividends in your recovery.

Comment WORKOUTS and I'll send you my beginner postpartum workouts.

10/08/2026

If your ab gap hasn't closed and you've been working on it for months, it's usually because of one of these three reasons.

One. You're trying to close the gap instead of heal the tension. Width isn't the number that matters most. What matters is whether the tissue between your abs can effectively handle a load. Some moms will always have a slight gap even with a fully healed core.

Two. You're not training your core through all planes of motion. Instead of just holding a plank, you should be doing moves that require you to bend, move side to side, and twist. If you're only doing planks or only doing crunches, you're missing out on the benefits of training your entire deep core.

Three. You're trying to hold your breath through all of your exercises. The pressure you're creating has to go somewhere, and if it's not coming out through your breath, it's going downward onto your pelvic floor.

Fix the tension and the breath, and the ab gap should come along with it. If you're chasing closing that ab gap alone, you could train for a year and not get anywhere.

Comment CORE and I'll send you my free core and pelvic floor recovery guide.

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