Yeah for WW Posture and a Question

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Hello,
I cannot believe, but I can, what a good day I had today after just about going to Emergency hospital last evening. Had to drive my husband 100 miles to and from a medical visit yesterday and was really miserable the whole time with vaginal pain from rectocele, constipation and pudendal nerve pain . Sat on ice but by the time we got back home I was crying with pain. Took 2 Aleve and lay down with ice at the vagina and finally fell asleep at midnight. Anyway...
Woke up with just a little pudendal nerve pain and decided to do some yard work. I walked, picked up trash, and raked with ww posture and within an hour from beginning the work I had no pain or nausea.
The day just got better and better.
I noticed that each time I bent over my lower abdominal muscles would automatically tighten toward my backbone and I would wonder if I should be doing that or if I should let those muscles allow forward movement over the pubic bone. I still have the question and wonder which position is correct????
Anybody know? It seemed like relaxing and letting the stomach fall forward felt better, so I tried to remember each time to do that, but don't know if I was right.
Daphne11

Daphne, glad to hear about this! Driving is not a very prolapse-friendly activity, for sure. Next time, you need to find something to shove behind the lower back to support lumbar curvature as you drive, especially long distances. I get lazy about this for short drives, but car seats can be murder and it's just one of those things we need to keep tending to.

As for bending, I'd say that what you describe isn't a good way. Tightening the abdomen and pulling it towards the backbone would flatten lumbar curvature, if I am picturing this correctly from your description. Bend from the hips to keep lumbar curvature in place, not from the waist which causes that curvature to collapse. If I bend wrong and then correct myself while I'm down there, I can literally feel my organs shift. - Surviving

Thank you Surviving,
I thought that I could feel that shift difference when I was experimenting. The feeling was almost a happy one, probably it was a happy one. The correction felt just so right and whole. I just finished some standing reach and stretch work that Christine showed in one of her workouts. By the time I had finished the pudendal nerve pain that I've had on and off all day (it usually comes after every BM) persisted a few minutes more after stretching then it stopped. Phew. I may have the answer to the dilemma "in my own body". I'm almost sure that if I continue regular bodywork the muscle/nerve prolapse misalignment will correct itself. I sure don't want to take this issue to a doctor locally. Kind of in the back woods here, but I don't think that matters, since the lack of info on all this is still fairly hard to find. Thanks so much. Don't you just love Christine?! Planning on the hips book next.
Daphne11

Absolutely cannot wait for the hips book to come out. I have no hip issues, and after 3 years in the posture I feel like my hips could go on forever! The benefits of this work are infinite. Glad you are feeling it. - Surviving