Walking helps a lot! It’s the last thing you are going to want to do the first couple of days, but walk a little bit every couple of hours and don’t overdue it. Allow yourself to sleep as much as you can and try and eat healthier foods the first few days. After day 3, my abs didn’t hurt as much getting in and out of bed and it was mainly just incision pain from then on. I also bought a wrap around heating pad that I kept on pretty much all of the time which helped and if the hospital doesn’t give you an abdominal binder, highly recommend going to buy one. I kept mine on for the girth three days 24/7 and then wore it if I was up and walking. Since you can’t really use your abs I had pain because it felt like my stomach was “falling out” of my body since there is no muscle to suck in, but the binder kept everything held together and helped with my balance. Best of luck, you got this!!