When I first “cracked the code” on stabilizing and reversing prolapse, and wrote and published Saving the Whole Woman, I set up this forum. While I had finally gotten my own severe uterine prolapse under control with the knowledge I had gained, I didn’t actually know if I could teach other women to do for themselves what I had done for my condition.
So I just started teaching women on this forum. Within weeks, the women started writing back, “It’s working! I can feel the difference!”
From that moment on, the forum became the hub of the Whole Woman Community. Unfortunately, spammers also discovered the forum, along with the thousands of women we had been helping. The level of spamming became so intolerable and time-consuming, we regretfully took the forum down.
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UKmummy
May 23, 2006 - 2:18pm
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Hi Maya,I can't comment on
Hi Maya,
I can't comment on this though I hope that Jane, (fullofgrace), will because she has many posts here on the forum relating to the beautiful birth of her son after experiencing prolapse. It is truly an inspiring and heartening story!
Michelle xxxxx
fullofgrace
May 23, 2006 - 5:36pm
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Thanks for the kind words
Thanks for the kind words Michelle.
Maya,
I discovered prolapse (all three) after the awesome homebirth of my second child (I had a c-section with my first child and the hospital 2 minutes from my home would not allow me to have a vaginal birth). I suspect that the rectocele started much earlier--maybe even as early as after my first child. I was unsure about how pregnancy would affect me. Even though I wanted at least one more, if not two more children, I was thinking about stopping at two from my fear. Thankfully, my 3rd child decided he was coming along despite my fears, and doubly thankfully, I found Christine's site and through my research at her direction I found that a gentle birth would most likely do no more damage. I was afraid that once labor started I'd be afraid to push and that my labor would stall from fear of damaging myself further, but I ended up laboring almost the entire two hours alone and was therefore, able to follow my body and there was no fear. I was totally focused on birthing my baby and it was so cool to feel his head descending and to push as I felt. My midwife was encouraging me to go slowly since we had talked about gentle pushing to protect my perenium, but I told her I was just doing what my body was telling me to do. I labored a good while in baby pose position and my soft fluffy green bath mat became my friend as I knelt on it. Baby hit a nerve and my leg cramped up causing me to "dive" into my pool for relief, but the next contraction called me to my feet and I birthed him standing up in the pool. I think my midwives should have been All-American wide receivers to catch him as they had to. :) I actually feel like prolapse is better than after my second birth, perhaps it's just my attitude toward it, but the the posture definitely has helped, and maybe somehow my gentle birth helped correct it some too??? If it weren't for the amount of time three children consume, and my doubts that we can handle a fourth, I'd have another child 9 months from now with no fear of prolapse.
Jane
fraele70
May 24, 2006 - 7:01am
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baby after prolapse
Hi Maya, welcome on board (this metaphor of the boat is really nice).
If you track my posts you will read my experience, as I have "risked" to have the third baby after being diagnosed with the three prolapses.( actually I had a miscarriage at 8 weeks before my second child, but i was not submitted to any surgery). Organs are unfortunately worse than before, posture helps but I am sorry to say thet the third baby was the coup de grace, anyway I am so happy with him that any discomfort is really worthwhile, the pregnancy was very tough, but I really think I would do it again. It is so good to find so many wome here willing to have more babies.
ornella