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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Bebe
January 15, 2014 - 11:54pm
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Hi, Pretzel
There are younger women closer to the post-partum experiences you're suffering who will be able to relate to you better than I. As you read around and use the search function, you'll see that it takes about two years to fully recover after giving birth. I wanted to comment on the use of a pessary. At two weeks after birth, I think it's way too soon to consider a pessary if ever. A pessary does provide support for my cystocele when I use it, but it can be harmful to a rectocele. It also stretches vaginal tissue. A pessary would probably only be an interference to your natural recovery process. (At my age of 63 now, using a pessary is a measure of last resort.) Learn as much as you can by reading the articles and watching the videos here (look under the Resources tab) and visit the "store" to order a book if you don't already have it. You will find encouragement and reassurance here to help you feel not so overwhelmed in the moment. If you study to understand and follow through on making Whole Woman posture habitual, you're very likely to see improvement. Congratulations on the new baby, and I hope your two year old is enjoying his/her new sibling.
Surviving60
January 16, 2014 - 4:28am
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Hi and welcome Pretzel. I
Hi and welcome Pretzel. I completely agree with Bebe about pessaries. Relatively few women actually get symptom relief from them, they are tricky to fit, and they can do more harm than good in the long run. So don't even consider going there....rather, work on having a good PP recovery and restoring lumbar curvature while your body is still in healing mode.
i had two very large babies 2-1/2 years apart. The first was a long drawn-out labor which had me so beat up that I didn't leave the hospital for a week. The second popped right out by comparison. Both births left me feeling bulgy down there, though I wouldn't have expected anything else after passing two large watermelons and being sewn up again. So I didn't worry and I didn't probe. The bulginess resolved on its own each time. But after menopause, prolapse came knocking on my door as if out of nowhere. If I had known back then, what I know now, I think things might have been quite different.
It seems you have looked around this site; have you figured out that posture is what we are all about here? Restoring lower lumbar curvature, which so many of us have been brainwashed into losing, is the key. This gives the pelvic organs a place to roost in the relaxed lower belly, so that they aren't squishing into the vagina. Look around here and read more; go to Resources and watch the first video on that page for a good overview of Christine's teachings.
Post partum is a wonderful time to discover Whole Woman. I wish you the best! - Surviving