Tummy grew bigger once postnatal massage ends

Are you using binder? Binder helped me a lot, I wear it for min 8 hours even thou its in my way… you know there’s a saying “want pretty don’t want life” 😅. I gave birth via natural but I took 8 months to get rid of my tummy (not entirely and it won’t go away entirely unless you exercise or go for expensive treatments) even when I breastfeed (my friends took 2 months bf to get back into shape 🙃). I don’t exercise at all, the only exercise I do is my usual walking from kitchen to room lol. I would say 8 weeks is still pretty early, our tummy took 9 months to expand, it should be given the same or more time to get back. I was very weight and body conscious 1-2 months PP too that I stressed myself out. What I did was just eat normally, don’t think about it. I stopped looking at my prepreg clothings and stopped attempting to squeeze into it, loose tshirts it shall be. Before I even realized, at 6 months mark, my weight went below prepreg and my tummy became not so obvious anymore. I am currently 23m PP and no, mom pouch hasn’t went away, but it only shows when I’m sitting down and slouching, it doesn’t shows when I’m standing. My advise is don’t stress, don’t look. You’ll be back in shape before you realize. 😊 For ref: I am 158cm, 44cm prepreg, 61kg on the day I gave birth. I went from 23” waist to 32” 😵‍💫.

For DR you need to get treatment because it will remain, otherwise will be exercise. You may check with gynae or ways to reduce DR. Also to reduce mummy's pouch you can do massage once a month but also on the other hand using waist trainer from morning till night or night till morning to maintain your tummy area.