So it has been over two months since I was last on here. It has been a whirl wind with baby Keira. She is perfect. I love her to death. I will give a little run down of what it has been like today but mostly focus on fitness today. So she mostly breastfeeds, we feed her formula ( soy) at night when she wakes up because she sleeps for about 5-7 hours and she is super fussy, but I pump milk for her and only give her about 2-3oz of formula then it is all breast milk. She co-sleeps, get into that next post, the S/O is great with her but we have definitely had our ups and downs, another time for that. We avoid taking her to alot of places until she is 3 months,, but we have taken her out a few times and it really hasn’t been to bad. I love breastfeeding but I also hate it. It is a lot of work and some days are great with baby other days are so hard. Plus I have gotten mastitis 3x now!! Keira just turned 12 weeks, and I am 5lbs away from pre-baby weight. Lucky for me I have had no complications from the C-section and took really good care of myself after the surgery. I only pushed myself to do certain things for only so long. Never to the point of horrible pain. But the doctors do want you to walk alot after the surgery, second day pp they were having me walk up and down the hospital halls which was so painful.
So starting off I just walked and stretched lightly. Just walked my house, then I walked up and down my cul-du-sac as many times as I could twice a day. Soon I was back to walking my normal walking route. I was still moving slowly at first and never pushed myself to hard. by the time of my 8 week pp check up I was already walking 2 miles almost at my normal pace, and doing body weight squats and lungs ( just a few though). When I got the all clear I added light weights to my leg and arm routines and started doing planks. Also I began swimming laps. One lap in my pool ( start point to the other end and back), is the same size has the half size Olympic pools so its not to shabby of a work out. I started with 5 laps one day, the next 10, and for a few days stayed at 15-20 laps. Then I started to really kick my workouts into gear when I really felt great. Now I can swim 60 laps in 35 mins, and this is good for me. At first it was 40 laps in 35mins, then a few days later it was 45, and so on. Here was my workout and I will post what I am doing now on my next post.
day 1 walk 20-25 mins 1.5-2 miles; swim 35 mins40-60 laps.
day 2 walk 20-25mins 1.5-2 miles, leg & arm workouts; squat 5x 10 reps 10 lbs, deadlift 5x 8reps 10-20lbs, walk lung 3x 8reps, bridge 3x 15reps 0-10lbs, side leg lifts 3x 15reps 3lbs. Bicepe curl with resistant band 4x 12reps, tri kick backs 3x 15reps 3lbs, chest fly 3x 5 lbs 12reps. Shoulder press 4x 10reps 5lbs.
day 3 walk 15-20mins 1-1.5 mile swim 20mins 20-30laps, plank holds 4x 20-30 seconds, side plank hold 4x 20-30 seconds, leg taps 3x 20reps.
day 5 repeat leg & arm day