Zendaze Yoga

Team c-section and team natural birth

have never agreed on anything except that

postpartum pants shopping is a nightmare

turns out you were both right for the same

reason.

Here’s the thing nobody tells you before you

leave the hospital:

a high-rise waistband doesn’t know or care

how your baby got out. If you had a

c-section, that thick elastic sits directly on a

healing incision that’s still tender for

months. If you had a vaginal birth, that

same tight waistband pushes pressure

straight down onto a pelvic floor that’s

already doing overtime.

Two totally different births,

same design flaw working against both of

you.

My pelvic floor PT pointed out that

low-rise isn’t just a fashion throwback

it’s one less thing pressing where your body

needs room to actually heal.

Less pressure on the scar.

Less downward push on the pelvic floor.

Same jeans, two different reasons they’re

doing you a favor.

We spent so long thinking our birth stories

put us on different teams.

Turns out we’ve just been wearing the

wrong pants on both sides.

If your body still feels like it’s in high-alert

mode months (or years) postpartum, that’s

what the “Its a Come Back Guide

Not a Bounce Back Guide” was built for

it’s the first button in my profile.

Tell me your go to pants below! 👇🏻

there’s a version of me

that teaches nervous

system regulation for a

living.

and then there’s today,

where i’m laying here

trying to remember how

to do it for myself.

mom of three with

lymphocytic colitis

flaring,

a brain stuck in high-alert

mode,

spiraling thoughts on repeat,

and a perfectionism

streak that won’t let

any of it look like what it

actually feels like.

my gut’s been picking

fights with me for over a

month and today it won.

i want to tell you i have a

system for this,

some tidy little routine

that makes it all make

sense.

i don’t.

some days i’m just laying

here counting my breaths

like that’s the whole plan,

because it is.

if you’re in it too, you’re

not alone.

and if your body’s ever

needed more than

“just push through it,”

that’s part of why I built

The Soft Reset.

first button in my profile.

I sat on my closet floor last week having a

full breakdown over a pair of jeans and I

need to tell you why.

That soft rounded belly so many of us carry

postpartum,

the one that hangs over the waistband no

matter what you eat or how many crunches

you do,

isn’t just leftover baby weight being

stubborn.

Your core and pelvic floor went through

actual structural changes.

And when your body has been living in high

alert mode since the day you gave birth,

it holds onto that belly softness like it’s

guarding you.

Your body isn’t broken.

It’s exhausted and doing its best to protect

you the only way it knows how.

So when your jeans don’t fit like your

friend’s “after baby” jeans, that is not a

discipline problem.

That is a nobody-designed-clothes-for-a-

body-in-survival-mode problem.

The Soft Reset was built for exactly this

moment.

Grab it through the first button in my profile.

Comment BELLY if you have ever cried over

a pair of pants,

because you are so not the only one.

Turns out those low rise jeans from 2004

are actually trying to save our postpartum

bodies in 2026.

Here’s what nobody explains at your check

up: your pelvis widens to make room for

birth, and for a lot of us, it doesn’t fully go

back. High rise jeans are cut for a waist

measurement, which was never really the

problem. Low rise sits on the hip, which is

the part of your body that actually shifted.

Wearing the wrong cut isn’t a willpower

issue, it’s a measuring-the-wrong-thing

issue.

A pelvic floor PT friend told me she sees this

constantly people assume their old jeans

stopped fitting because of weight,

when really the frame underneath changed

shape. Same body, different blueprint.

Those same low rise jeans that are better

for our pelvic floor health now did us dirty

back in 2004 house party era,

back when our hips hadn’t gone through

anything yet and we still couldn’t keep them

up. Now our hips have actually earned the

fit.

If your old pants have felt “off” in a way you

couldn’t explain, it’s not in your head.

That’s the whole reason Soft Reset exists

meeting your body exactly where it is now,

not where it used to be, no bounce-back

required.

Drop a 🙋‍♀️ if this explains a closet full of

jeans that just don’t sit right anymore.

first button in my profile has the guide if you

want to go deeper.

If your core still feels like it’s figuring itself

out, your jeans might be part of the

problem.

High rise waistbands sit directly across the

midsection and squeeze inward,

right where a lot of us are dealing with core

separation that takes real time to close

back up.

That constant pressure can make your belly

feel more distended by the end of the day,

not less.

Low rise sits below that whole zone and

just… lets your body exist without an opinion

on it.

A pelvic floor PT friend of mine put it simply:

compression in the wrong place doesn’t

help your core come back together,

it just moves the pressure somewhere else.

Nobody tells you this.

They just tell you to “engage your core”

and hand you a binder.

Those same low rise jeans that are better

for our pelvic floor health now did us dirty

back in 2004 house party era

we had zero core stability and zero

waistband to hide it,

just vibes and a butterfly clip.

Now they’re finally on our side.

If your midsection feels like it’s negotiating

with your clothes by mid-afternoon,

that’s information,

not something to push through.

That’s exactly the kind of thing we work with

slowly and gently inside From Here,

my postnatal yoga guide for reconnecting

with your body exactly where you’re at,

no bounce-back required.

Drop a 🙋‍♀️ if you’ve felt this.

Follow for more postpartum truths nobody

tells you at your six week appointment

first button in my profile has the guide

if you want to go deeper.

Those same low rise jeans that are better

for our pelvic floor health now did us dirty

back in 2004 house party era.

Turns out it was never actually the jeans’

fault.

They did us dirty because they made us

ab grippers and breath holders

sucking in for hours just to get them zipped,

bracing our stomachs so tight you’d think

we were dodging a car instead of dancing

to Usher at Becky’s kegger.

And that constant gripping and breath

holding?

It trained our core to brace instead of

breathe. A pelvic floor PT will tell you that

pattern

chronic sucking in plus shallow chest

breathing actually pushes pressure down

and out, which is the opposite of what a

healthy pelvic floor needs.

So the jeans weren’t the villain.

Our two-decade death grip on our own abs

might’ve been.

If you’re overstimulated, wound up tight,

and can’t remember the last time

you took a full breath without

thinking about it

that bracing habit doesn’t just

disappear because you had a baby.

The Soft Reset walks you through actually

releasing it, not just white-knuckling through

another day.

Comment “LOW RISE ” and I’ll send you the link,

or hit the first button in my profile.

Did you also spend your entire teens holding

your stomach in?

Tell me I wasn’t the only one.

As a momma of a 4 month old all the cravings are still hitting hard. I can’t live without my sweet treats.

I walked out of PT Monday ready

to have a full funeral for

my high waist jeans

and I need you to sit with me for a

second.

My PT told me something that I genuinely

was not prepared to hear.

Tight waistbands sitting across your

abdomen create downward pressure on

your pelvic floor.

The pelvic floor JUST pushed

a whole human out.

It is already doing its absolute best.

It does not need your jeans

joining the chaos.

Over time that constant

downward pressure can contribute to

prolapse, leaking, and

that heavy dragging feeling so many

postnatal moms are told

is just something they have to accept

now.

It is not something you just accept.

It is pressure.

Literal pressure.

From your waistband.

Low rise jeans were out here

protecting us the whole time

and we were in the Target

changing room sobbing

into a pair of high waist skinnies

because we thought they were fixing

something.

They were not fixing anything.

They were making it worse.

If this just made you look down

at your jeans with suspicion,

follow for more postnatal body stuff

nobody actually explains to you.