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granolamom
December 10, 2008 - 4:57pm
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welcome
welcome suzep, and congrats on the new baby
you're still very early postpartum, so yes, rest when you can (if you can with three kids). also know that many women report some degree of reversal within the first year postpartum. so anything can happen.
what you can do to help with the healing...
avoid constipation. straining on the toilet further pushes the pelvic organs down
get the book, learn the posture. this helps realign your pelvic organs and keep them supported and stable.
re exercise, once you've learned the posture, walking in posture is a fine way to start. also, in the book (make sure to get the second edition) there is a ballet workout and my favorite exercise for prolapse, called firebreathing.
assuming your lochia has stopped, you can also learn the nauli exercise (type it into the search box and follow the links in the posts).
pelvic floor exercises, in my experience, are useless in terms of reversing prolapse. for managing symptoms like stress incontinence, maybe.
but some have found them helpful. the important thing is for you to learn about your situation, get to know what's going on down there and learn to monitor what helps and what aggravates. then you will know when you're doing too much.
vaginal wall prolapse means very little. it doesn't tell you which organs are prolapsing. I think what you may have read is that women with hysterectomies can end up with vaginal vault prolapse, which is when the vagina kind of turns inside itself and the end where the uterus used to be can hang down. this is very unlikely to happen (if its even possible) if you still have your uterus.
you ask, does it matter which it is that you are dealing with. I say yes and no. yes, because it is useful in terms of monitoring your success, comparing notes with others, getting ideas, etc. no because management is very much the same for all types. but you can figure this out. go to the homepage, click on 'resources' so that a menu pops up, then click on articles, and then on the link to 'prolapse self exam'.
suzep
December 11, 2008 - 3:23am
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thanks
thanks very much, appreciate that advice and will see how we go. i read an interesting website the other day about how the western sitting toilet was suggested as a reason for why women in the western world tend to suffer prolapse more ... not sure if it is already linked to this site but just in case, am posting here. It made perfect sense to me.
http://www.toilet-related-ailments.com/pelvic-floor-prolapse.html