As a woman, you are used to being scrutinized. But this scrutiny seems to become even more intense during and after pregnancy. How much weight you have gained and how long it takes you to lose it is practically headline news. After pregnancy, wouldn’t it be fabulous if there were a surefire way to get you back into your skinny jeans and quiet the critics once and for all? Luckily a centuries old technique known as abdominal binding has resurfaced and it could be the answer to your skinny jean prayers!
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we all know that the combination of diet and exercise is the tried and true method to whittling down our waistline. But let’s be honest, after having a baby, who can find the time and/or energy to make it to the gym 5 days a week AND put a healthy meal on the table? You need something faster and simpler to aid you on your road to fitting back into your skinny jeans and this is where abdominal binding steps in.
Abdominal binding has been used for centuries. Around the world, it has been used to prevent herniation, reposition the womb, increase weight loss, and tighten waistlines. Separation of abdominal muscles during pregnancy and childbirth can make it hard to regain your pre-baby belly. By binding your abdomen, you allow your muscles to come back together giving you that tight and toned midsection you lost over nine months.
Celebrity moms such as Tori Spelling, Jessica Alba, and Angelina Jolie have all used abdominal binding to reclaim their pre-pregnancy form. Abdominal binders provide comfort to a sagging belly, back support during breastfeeding and can even keep post-pregnancy stretch marks at bay.
Worn under your clothing as soon as one day after delivery, the use of an abdominal binder will start turning heads in as little as 6 weeks after slipping it on. You have much more to worry about than what others are saying about your post-baby body. Do yourself a favor and wear an abdominal binder so that you can focus on what truly matters… your baby!
Melissa Johnson is founder of The Recovery, a recovery concierge for those who have undergone surgery or childbirth. In addition to recovery services, The Recovery offers a variety of Recovery Kits that will assist you throughout the recovery process. For more information on how these services or products can help you to recover faster, visit http://www.TheRecoveryKit.com.
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Over the centuries, there have been many reported cases – especially in Medieval legend – of sexual hauntings involving two specific types of entities: the Incubus (male demon) and the Succubus (female demon).
The Incubus and Succubus usually manifest themselves during the nocturnal hours, preying on the victim when they are sleeping, although there have been some cases where females have actually been sexually assaulted whilst fully awake. One such experience was covered in the book and subsequent movie, The Entity.
Any female who undergoes an incubus sexual assault will not awaken, although she may experience it in a dream. If she becomes pregnant, the child will grow inside her as any normal child, except that it will possess supernatural powers. Usually the child grows into a person of evil character or a powerful wizard. According to legend, it is said that the magician Merlin was the result of physical contact between an incubus and a nun.
A succubus is the female version, and she seduces men. According to one legend, the incubus and the succubus were fallen angels. The word incubus is Latin for “nightmare”. Succubus – In medieval European folklore, a female demon (or evil spirit) who visits men in their sleep to lie with them in ghostly sexual intercourse. The man who falls victim to a succubus will not awaken, although may experience it whilst in the dream state. The biblical Lilith, the first wife to Adam before Eve, is said to also have been the very first succubus on earth. There is a version of the Lilith myth in EVERY religion in the world. Many of these creatures have different names, such as Marilith or Lilitu, but all of them have one common theme: a demon woman, often with wings, who seduces – and sometimes murders – men. A succubus.
Just as is the case with the succubus, there are also many legends about incubi (singular: incubus), but these are not be confused with succubi (which is the plural of succubus). The incubi are said to be fallen angels in Judeo-Christianity who fell to earth because they had sex with mortal women. Since then incubi have stalked the earth, seducing women in their dreams and impregnating them. The children of incubi are said to grow up to become rapists.
An evil person who raped and murdered in real life may pass on, but may not move on to Heaven or Hell. Instead, they remain on the earth plane as a spiritual being with the same personality as they had in life. They are therefore free to indulge in sexual intercourse with whoever they chose, so it’s not surprising that a spirit of such a nature may be called an Incubus or a Succubus.
There are many variations of this sexual demonic legend all over the world. For instance, in Zanzibar, an entity known as the “Popo Bawa” generally preys on men as they sleep in their beds. In the Chilo’ Province of Chile, a pathetic little dwarf, known as El Trauco, woos young naive women and then seduces them. In Hungary, a Liderc is a demonic sexual predator that operates under the cover of darkness, and will appear as little more than a wispy apparition or a fiery light. Any one of these two succubus’s can be blamed for unexpected or unwanted pregnancies, especially in unmarried women, though you could argue that it might just be a convenient fabrication to avoid vicious gossip!
Some confuse the incubus with the legendary “Old Hag” syndrome, but it is not. The Old Hag episode is usually confined to a feeling of intense pressure on the chest and, as such, not an actual ghostly sexual encounter. Another difference that separates the incubus/succubus experience from the Old Hag is that the former is not always unpleasant while the Old Hag is mostly accompanied by a feeling of death, suffocation and the horrific feeling of fighting for your life.
Because the incubus and succubus are generally experienced during the sleep state or in between it, most experts feel that it is an imaginary experience and not a real one. However, telling this to the person who has just had this eerily erotic experience, they may find that hard to believe, as to them it feels as real as actual sexual intercourse itself.
Nobody can really say for sure if these events are real or imagined, but until you’ve experienced an actual sexual assault by an incubus or succubus yourself, it’s quite hard to form a solid opinion one way or the other.
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September 13th, 2010 at 9:11 am
I have suffered from cellulite for many years and if I have learned one thing it’s that diet and exercise is the the only proven way to decrease it.