Feeling Good! (PP Update)

Hello lovely ladies. I have seen a few pp women here who want to run but are concerned with how that will affect their POP's. Well, I have been experimenting with working running back into my life and wanted to share how things are going...

Refresher: A bit over 5 weeks pp with my first baby, "mild" cystocele & perhaps a bit of a rectocele. I was told I had a mild uterine prolapse as well at 8 weeks pp, but that seems to have gone right on up (YAY!). I came here completely distraught and an emotional wreck!

At about 3 months pp I started feeling really good in my day-to-day activities so I got back into a regular exercise routine--mostly walking and elliptical with some core work. I kept feeling better and better, so about a month ago I tried a one mile jog and it felt AMAZING! I had SO missed that feeling--even though I ran at the pace I used to warm up at. I have been seeing a PT and told her about my little jogging experiment, and we worked up a jog/walk plan for me to SLOWLY build back up to running.

I am pleased to report that for the past 3 weeks I have been walking/jogging 3 miles 3-5 times a week (increasing the jogging very slightly each week). Pre-pregnancy me would NOT have been impressed with this, as I was training for a marathon before my pregnancy, but the new me is overjoyed. I believe I will be able to continue to build on this and compete again in races (although I think I'll skip the marathons) and triathalons.

Wow, this is long. I just wanted to say I am feeling great, back to my pre-pregnancy weight, thinking WAY less about my "bulge," and loving life. I have really come to a place of acceptance and peace with this that I never thought possible. A lot of that is because I have seen what my body is capable of doing and that I'm not a fragile being--just a more careful one! Thanks to you all for being a part of this process for me. This website has been truly encouraging and so informative! Blessings to you all!!

mzimm