No Feathertop, the internet can be deadly for people trying stuff out themselves and getting hurt! You're right to be concerned if it's dangerous.

Yeah, they do a baseline assesment and post partum check (there's 2 trainers at the gym qualified specifically in pregnancy and post partum so you have to get one of them) and if there's any problems you have to get a doctor's cert before you can begin on anything (so like if you have SPD or diastasis rectus when you first go back PP you have to have a note saying it's all fine before you can begin). They don't really consider you post-partum after, i think, 12 weeks post partum, and even then only if there were problems. I don't really know as i ran (on my own) and swam (on my own) and didn't do classes.

My DP is a personal trainer but he only has the general qualification and the specialisation in Spin - nothing else yet (he's picking them up in his spare time). I'm trying to persuade him to get the pool qual - that'd be really handy for me He knows all the safe lifts and moves but he's not allowed to even TALK to women less than 3 months post partum! lmao.

The instructor in my gym who taught leg lifts has you concentrate first and foremost on keeping your lower back pushed into the floor, like in the pelvic tilt. In fact the first week or that's all you do, and you slowly progress to lifting the legs. He did say if you lift your lower back you can hurt yourself and also not to do those exerices to exhaustion as that's when people get sloppy and hurt themselves.

Bx