We have already talked about the community.There, under the condition of complete anonymity, women share the most intimate things: they tell and show how their bodies have changed after pregnancy and childbirth. Stretch marks, scars, torn muscles, gained kilograms, sagging breasts... But you won’t find a single remark like “if I had known, I would never have gotten involved” here. But even against the background of other stories, the story of Olga, a mother of triplets, is striking. “Hi. This is what a once flat and toned tummy looks like after triplets...” she captioned the photo taken six months after giving birth. Dec 15 2017 at 3:45 PST The girl was not lying about her toned tummy. Olga did not gain that much extra weight, while maintaining a slender figure. But not her tummy. “My husband and I often played sports together. Now he continues to play, but I can’t,” she almost cries. During pregnancy, Olga’s tummy was simply huge. First, the skin tore, forming terrible stretch marks. Then the muscles tore. “The doctors said that my stomach looked like the head of a jellyfish. The result of a triplet pregnancy is grade 3 diastasis, hernias, stretch marks,” says Olga. The young mother is not worried about the stretch marks. “I don’t plan to walk around with a bare stomach,” she waves her hand. But her stomach deflated from a balloon into an “apron.” It looks terrible. All attempts to choose a new dress end in tears: sellers offer clothes for growth, believing that Olga is pregnant. “A full abdominoplasty with liposuction and hernia removal is necessary. But there is no money for it yet,” Olga shrugs. The doctors presented the girl with a preliminary bill of 290 thousand. The amount is absolutely unaffordable for a large family, especially with a mortgage. “I don’t make a tragedy out of it, but it interferes with life, of course. Not only is it aesthetically unsightly, but it also causes pain. But children are the most precious thing I have! I waited for them for 10 years and gave birth exactly on my thirtieth birthday! " says the young mother. As a result, the subscribers of "My Lines" decided to organize a fundraiser for Olga. "Yes, if each of us gives a hundred rubles, we will collect!" - the caring mothers put out a cry. But Olga, it seems, does not care about this anymore. "Thank you for your support. So many warm words, so much sympathy - I read them and am simply overcome," she wrote. By the way, some residents of the community advised Olga to do sports, do vacuum massage, wear a bandage and sleep on her stomach - and everything, they say, will go away as if by magic. We asked the specialist what can actually restore the stomach with diastasis. Tatyana Butskaya, pediatrician, popular medical blogger:
— The problem with diastasis is not that the muscles are flaccid, butthat they have diverged. A strong degree of diastasis, when there is a serious divergence of the muscles, requires exclusively surgical intervention. At the initial stage, you can still try to increase the muscles by pumping and vacuum massages, but when they have already diverged by 5 cm from each other, this can be dangerous due to intestinal strangulation, prolapse of the pelvic organs and other complications. In ambiguous situations, I always advise getting a second expert opinion.
