Find Out What 1 New Mom Was Too Embarrassed To Talk AboutWhat Your Friends Would Confess If They Knew It Happened To You Too.
A strong support system is essential to any new mom as her body transforms into a baby making haven. Everything seems upside down, parts hurt that you never even knew existed, and all you want is someone who can show you the ropes and tell you it’s gonna be okay.
Take incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse for example. Why is it we only learn of these conditions when we’re in the midst of it as opposed to being educated in advance? One would think something so common post-birth would be a trending topic on any mommy blog or publication. Instead all we hear are crickets.
Time to blow the lid off these topics that have been considered taboo for too long. Let’s see our bodies as the miracle makers they are and recognize that creating a human life can be a beautifully messy process.
Here Are Need-To-Knows When it Comes to Pelvic Organ Prolapse:
1. What is Pelvic Organ Prolapse? A condition where the vaginal wall falls down and sometimes even out of the vaginal opening. In some instances the uterus, bladder or rectum can slip out in varying degrees of severity.
2. Why does it happen? POP occurs when the pelvic floor muscles aren’t strong enough to hold your organs in place. It can occur during pregnancy but is also common for older aged women, marathon runners and fitness fanatics who work their rock hard abs without strengthening their pelvic floor muscles.
3. Why do I even have pelvic floor muscles? Think of the pelvic floor muscles as ruled by the letter “S” with four primary functions: Stabilization, Support, Sphincteric action, and Sexual function. These muscles main focus is keeping your organs in place and happy, just as they should be.
Find Out What 1 New Mom Was Too Embarrassed To Talk About
What Your Friends Would Confess If They Knew It Happened To You Too
A strong support system is essential to any new mom as her body transforms into a baby making haven. Everything seems upside down, parts hurt that you never even knew existed, and all you want is someone who can show you the ropes and tell you it’s gonna be okay.
Take incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse for example. Why is it we only learn of these conditions when we’re in the midst of it as opposed to being educated in advance? One would think something so common post-birth would be a trending topic on any mommy blog or publication. Instead all we hear are crickets.
Time to blow the lid off these topics that have been considered taboo for too long. Let’s see our bodies as the miracle makers they are and recognize that creating a human life can be a beautifully messy process.
Here Are Need-To-Knows When it Comes to Pelvic Organ Prolapse:
1. What is Pelvic Organ Prolapse? A condition where the vaginal wall falls down and sometimes even out of the vaginal opening. In some instances the uterus, bladder or rectum can slip out in varying degrees of severity.
2. Why does it happen? POP occurs when the pelvic floor muscles aren’t strong enough to hold your organs in place. It can occur during pregnancy but is also common for older aged women, marathon runners and fitness fanatics who work their rock hard abs without strengthening their pelvic floor muscles.
3. Why do I even have pelvic floor muscles? Think of the pelvic floor muscles as ruled by the letter “S” with four primary functions: Stabilization, Support, Sphincteric action, and Sexual function. These muscles main focus is keeping your organs in place and happy, just as they should be.
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4. What does having Pelvic Organ Prolapse feel like? One usually has the feeling of pressure or the sensation of a ball inside the pelvis which can be painful depending on the severity. While many women experience symptoms like incontinence and leaking, it’s not uncommon to feel immense pain with simple activities or a lack of feeling altogether. This can cause women to feel depressed, angry and in a state of disbelief and rightfully so.
5. What can I do about it? Transverse Abdominals are the best way to strengthen those deep muscles towards the end of your pregnancy (starting at 34 weeks to be exact) and immediately after childbirth. Work with a trusted women’s health specialist to correct abdominal separation and pelvic alignment issues and to practice exercises and massage techniques that will help relax yet strengthen your pelvic floor. The use of
post partum belts or pessaries can be helpful based on your practitioner’s recommendations.
6. Belts and pessaries? Post-partum belts help decrease pelvic pressure by supporting your organs and weakened abdominals muscles in pregnancy and during post partum. For women with severe organ prolapse a pessary can provide tremendous relief, improve symptoms, and decrease the need for surgeries while improving life function during post partum. Continue your core and pelvic exercises as these are not miracle solutions, they are there to help you along your road to recovery.
7. Isn’t pressure in the pelvic area normal after childbirth? Not only is it not normal, it’s not healthy. Our body is a continuous pathway of signals, letting us know what it needs and what it doesn’t need. Pressure in the pelvic area is your body asking for help that calls for a very specific kind of solution. While these conditions are not life threatening, they are absolute game changers that can leave a woman ungrounded in her own body. The priority is to educate new moms on solutions and empowerment that can help every single woman through the trenches that were once considering unchartered territory. If you want to get on the proper foundation for success, get my New Mom Post-Partum Recovery Checklist . Get yourself back on track with easy to implement exercises, tools and techniques. You will feel like your old self again in no time.
