Hi, I might be able to help you with part of this. I’m a nurse-midwife/NP. Since your surgery was laparoscopic then you had minimal damage to your actual abdominal muscles. Postpartum (whether vaginal or surgical) I recommend starting with pelvic tilts (set of 10, holding for 20 seconds, daily) to heal the lower abdominal muscles first before moving on to harder core exercise. So you might want to consider doing these first and see how you feel.