Comments on: Incontinence in Pregnancy http://www.changeyourlifehacks.com/2010/02/incontinence-in-pregnancy/ Simple Hacks that can Change Your Life Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:51:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Tasha Mulligan http://www.changeyourlifehacks.com/2010/02/incontinence-in-pregnancy/comment-page-1/#comment-12718 Tasha Mulligan Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:02:38 +0000 http://www.changeyourlifehacks.com/?p=633#comment-12718 I am a women's health physical therapist and I would like to stress the importance of strengthening the pelvic floor muscles. Whether or not surgery, medication, pessary device, or conservative therapy is your choice, strengthening exercises should be performed to prevent further problems. Physical therapy is an option with no side effect. With a women's health physical therapist you will not only learn how to perform a Kegel contraction correctly, but you will be taught about optimal posture to hold that gives your pelvic floor the most support, and the other muscles you must strengthen around your abdomen and pelvis to assist your pelvic floor. All three of these key components are important for resolution of your symptoms! I am a women’s health physical therapist and I would like to stress the importance of strengthening the pelvic floor muscles. Whether or not surgery, medication, pessary device, or conservative therapy is your choice, strengthening exercises should be performed to prevent further problems. Physical therapy is an option with no side effect. With a women’s health physical therapist you will not only learn how to perform a Kegel contraction correctly, but you will be taught about optimal posture to hold that gives your pelvic floor the most support, and the other muscles you must strengthen around your abdomen and pelvis to assist your pelvic floor. All three of these key components are important for resolution of your symptoms!

]]> By: DryDiapersPlus http://www.changeyourlifehacks.com/2010/02/incontinence-in-pregnancy/comment-page-1/#comment-11088 DryDiapersPlus Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:57:00 +0000 http://www.changeyourlifehacks.com/?p=633#comment-11088 Great post! Why is this information not shared with women BEFORE they have babies? I may have thought twice about it had I known then what I know now! Ok - no I wouldn't. However, the fact is - even with all of those ideas for 'fixing' the issue - there is 1 that can't be fixed. For instance, for myself, my children (2 years apart) both got stuck in my pelvis - so the forceps were used to get them out. Unfortunately, the 'specialist' who delivered them butchered me. So, 6 episiotomies (4 corrective surgeries) later, according to my latest OBGYN (who performed this last corrective surgery) - I now have no pelvic floor left. I won't go into details about what each surgery involved - and what each specialist said about the 1st one who'd butchered me - but suffice it to say, my birth stories are the the ones that everyone crosses their legs in sympathy for. I wouldn't change a thing - I love my children (10 and 8 yrs) and they are worth every bit of what I've gone through. What's amazing is, I've now suffered from incontinence for years - and only just realized recently that I was incontinent. I suffer from the stress incontinence - the sneezing, laughing, coughing one. It's so much easier to deal with now that I know what it is. Great post! Why is this information not shared with women BEFORE they have babies? I may have thought twice about it had I known then what I know now! Ok – no I wouldn’t. However, the fact is – even with all of those ideas for ‘fixing’ the issue – there is 1 that can’t be fixed.

For instance, for myself, my children (2 years apart) both got stuck in my pelvis – so the forceps were used to get them out. Unfortunately, the ’specialist’ who delivered them butchered me. So, 6 episiotomies (4 corrective surgeries) later, according to my latest OBGYN (who performed this last corrective surgery) – I now have no pelvic floor left.

I won’t go into details about what each surgery involved – and what each specialist said about the 1st one who’d butchered me – but suffice it to say, my birth stories are the the ones that everyone crosses their legs in sympathy for.

I wouldn’t change a thing – I love my children (10 and 8 yrs) and they are worth every bit of what I’ve gone through. What’s amazing is, I’ve now suffered from incontinence for years – and only just realized recently that I was incontinent. I suffer from the stress incontinence – the sneezing, laughing, coughing one. It’s so much easier to deal with now that I know what it is.

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