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After pains is the spasmodic, intermittent pain felt in the lower abdomen. It is due to vigorous uterine contractions and its occurring in an effort to expel any remaining blood clots. Postpartum uterine contraction tent to be stronger and to persist for a longer period in multipara mothers. The nurses role Immediately after delivery is to apply massage to the uterus and keep the uterus firm to prevent excessive vaginal bleeding. After pains might be more painful for women who had more than one pregnancies to compensate for the previous stretching of their uterus to return to its pre pregnancy size. The study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of postnatal exercise on reduction of after pains among postnatal mothers in Tamralipto Govt Medical College and Hospital, Tamluk .The study was conducted by adopting pre experimental one group pre test post test design. 60 postnatal mothers who fulfilled the inclusion criteria were selected by non purposive sampling technique. The mothers were explained about the procedure and the assessment tool. To find out the level of pain, numerical rating scale was used and was given score from 0-10 the following score indicates the level of pain. To followed by selected nursing interventions such as performing postnatal exercise after 6 hours of delivery, continued by 3 times at a day for 3 days. Then at the end of the procedure the post intervention level of after pains was assessed by using the same 0-10 Numeric Rating Scale. The analysis of the study revealed that, the majority of mothers from experimental group experienced less pain after postnatal exercise than the mothers from control group. The study concluded that postnatal exercise on after pain is useful for most of the mothers. It is important to practice and intervention of postnatal exercise among postnatal mothers for reduction of after pains after delivery.