Healing your &quot;mummy tummy&quot; :-) Diastasis Recti: how to heal from having kids and get your abs back together. I didn&#x27;t know that you can actually get a separation between your abdominal muscles which will constantly cause the &quot;pooch&quot; and crunches could actually worsen the gap. There are exercises here that will help to strengthen your core and make that gap smaller.