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trueblue
July 10, 2009 - 2:33am
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in the same boat
Hi ladybug
We are in the same situation,i descovered pop, mainly cystocele as a problem after my 1st child, he is nearly 4 mounts old.I also really want to have more kids, but at the moment my cystocele is to much trouble to even contemplating another pregnancy.
Sorry for the personal question,but i guess that is the nature of this site;do you consider haveing more kids?
Also did you see any improvement pp?
I went to my gyn yesterday and he said he was pretty confident things would improve to the state where it doesn t affect my quality of living.He said i should expect to return to a normal life within the next year and things will really improve with time.He said to give it at least another 0.5 year until he would see me again.He said its very unlikely that i would want surgery as i would improve so much on my own healing.I guess that is encouraging.
He also said to keep in mind surgery is improving and they are getting better at it so if i do need surgery later in life than prognosis isnt as bad as rumour has it.He also said they rearly operate people my age as pp pop improves alot as time goes by.They dont offer surgery in Norway unless neccesery as it doesnt pay of for the hospital to do expensive procedures and dr. get paid the same unrelated to how many the operate.i am a theatre nurse so i know how it works.For the same reason c-section is only granted for medical reasons.
About children,he wouldn t hasitate to recomend more kids even if it was he s own sister and and he would recomend vaginal delivery.
cheers
bad_mirror
July 10, 2009 - 3:11pm
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Good doctor
Trueblue, it sounds like your doctor said all of the right things. I hope you will continue to report the progress you have in healing over the next year. I think it is important for postpartum women coming here to hear from other women who have gotten better. I think so many end up healing just fine, but they disappear from the forum, so we never know. Thanks!
ladybug
July 10, 2009 - 9:37pm
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it gets better
Dear Trueblue,
Congrats for the baby! We really are in the same boat. I can tell you things get better after some time, around 3-4 months pp was really the worse (when I found out). A little over two years have passed and I don't feel any symptoms most of the time :-) I was also told it would improve after I stop nursing but I didn't see any difference (I nursed for 18 months) exept for the fact that I was nursing in a rocking chair in a 'comfortable position' (not for the POP!) but everytime I got up I could really feel the bulge. I realize now that all these nursing hours in that position did not help.
We really want more children but for us it's like the lottery: we buy tickets every month and won the big lot once in 7 years! This children is truly a blessing!
Cheers
louiseds
July 11, 2009 - 6:01am
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Rocking chair
Hi Ladybug
I wouldn't go as far as to say that all those years in the rocking chair did not help. I don't think that the rocking chair would cause further damage as long as you are mainly lying right back. It is more the getting up repeatedly that causes the intraabdominal pressure that can aggravate POP. If you can figure out a way to get out of the rocking chair without blowing out your pelvic floor, maybe straddling it with baby held close in, before you rise, then getting your organs repositioned before moving off to do other jobs, I think it is probably OK. One of the challenges is to stand up while holding the baby, right?
Cheers
Louise
ladybug
July 12, 2009 - 9:41pm
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getting up from the chair
Hi Louise,
When I was breastfeeding I use to sit in that rocking chair for hours a day and I could feel the pop all the time, not only in the rocking chair! As you wrote, getting up was the difficult part when he was a baby, but now that he is 2 yo, when I want to get up from the chair with him, I first adopt the WW posture from the waist up and it makes all the difference. Now I don't even feel the POP most of the day: it has gotten a lot better. My POP is ready for the challenge of another pg, hoping we don't have to wait much longer!