just wondering about the interior

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I think i am so lucky to have found this website just after my diagnosis. thank you thank you. i am just wondering and my midwife assures me this is normal but i feel like the inside of my vagina is way too spacious. i feel like i could store stuff in there! and i'm not a big person (110 lbs). i have had 2 kids naturally at home and she says that most women will be stretched out inside like me, it's been almost 3 years since i gave birth. i find it so strange, in the bath i notice the water going in there and then feel like i need to drain myself before dressing. i have been trying some inverted poses and have noticed the space getting larger (as the other organs get out of the way). i was doing yoga for the past 8 months and still continue to do some gentle poses at home but decided not to go back because of the embarrasment of vaginal air. i haven't heard any one else complain about this. i don't mean to be graphic or gross, just wondering if the muscles engaged by kegel exercises are up inside or only near the entrance to the vagina. i feel like if i could tighten up
this area my cystocele wouldn't be so bothersome. thanks for listening. it is very encouraging to read all these posts and learn how other women
cope. mel

Hi Mel,

I think we need to print a bumper sticker "Real Men Love Big Vaginas." Just kidding, but the too-big vagina is far more of an issue with women than with men. And really...try to enjoy the way you are right now because it won't last forever. The vagina shrinks in both caliber and depth and there might come a point in a couple of decades when you wish you had a little more room!!

The posture will help with this. It pulls the interior along its natural axis and I think you will see a difference within a few months. In the meantime, go to yoga if you want, place your mat next to other women, and don't give the matter a second thought!!!

:-)Christine

>I think we need to print a bumper sticker "Real Men Love Big
>Vaginas."

This is so funny :) Thanks for the humor!

I took a yoga class when I was in my late teens---PRE-kids, and during some poses I noticed a "vaginal air problem"...so I think it may be more common than one may suspect and has nothing to do with being stretched out, just female anatomy.

The other women in the class were probably thinking to themselves "yeah, that's happened to me before"...

i am laughing to myself right now!!!
i just got home from swimming with my kids. this is definately something nice to do for the body and for the family! i am feeling pretty good about the situation at the moment. although i am not near my period so this may have something to do with it. been trying to stay in 'the posture' and it relieving some of the pressure. i think that to live and deal and learn about prolapse is the route i know i need to go.
i just hope that through talking to other women i can stay positive and focus on the rest of my life not my 'new' sometimes debilitating issue.
so glad you're here and are so normal! makes me feel 'normal' too! mel