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mommynow
March 30, 2006 - 7:12am
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Hi mommi2three,
Yes I feel that kegels made my symptoms worse. Actually ever since I got my period back my rectocele feels worse. I am still nursing though.
I am trying the exercise that Christine gave me to help.
I am pretty sure that pushing for an hour and a half flat on my back with an epidural did it. They tell you to push like you are having a bowel movement and serious pushing like that instead of letting your body do it naturally has to be detrimental. I basically pushed my butt out! My question is, why then do other women not get a rectocele from doing the same thing???
I am sorry I don't have an inspiration at the moment. I am going through the same thing and praying this will get better.
MeMyselfAndI
March 30, 2006 - 8:12am
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If you are overdoing the Kegels they WILL make everything worse - How many are you doing a day? I was doing 300+++ and it made everything ten times worse! Now I do about 40 - 50 (if that) and everything is ten times better - So don't overdo it or it will make everything worse
Sue
louiseds
April 3, 2006 - 8:31am
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Dear Mommynow
I had pre-eclalmpsia with my first pregnancy and was ordered to have a big epidural by the obstetrician, because he told me an epidural would reduce the high blood pressure, and prevent me from having a seizure which would both me and the baby.
I hated it because I was on my back with feet in stirrups, couldn't tell when to push, and couldn't push to save myself, or wouldn't have known if I did push. I had a forceps delivery and episiotomy; the scar tissue still pulls 23 years later. They were in a bit of hurry to get poor little Tim out. However, he is now 23, 6 foot tall, healthy and wonderful, and I survived the birth too. Shit happens. Life is not perfect.
I birthed my own way for the other two, and felt blessed to experience this very earthy, instinctive act without an obstetrician 'managing' *my* labour. I guess we all have different genes, and different life experiences.
I have found that looking back resentfully is not as satisfying as dealing with the here-now. Best wishes
Louise
Cheers
Louise