Can the vaginal walls recover from a precipitous delivery?

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I just got through reading some of Christine's Book, "Saving the Whole Woman". In it, says a precipitous delivery can damage the vaginal walls. When the baby is delivered too soon the tissues do not have time to adapt to the transition.

Here is my question, is the vaginal tissue a muscle? Muscle can rebuild right? My train of thought was provoked after learning about a condition known as Vaginismus. Vaginismus is a condition where there is involuntary tightness of the vagina during attempted intercourse. So if it can tighten up so severely, surely the vagina tighten up after a precipitous delivery, but how?

Any ideas? Thoughts?

My vagina feels so darn loose, its annoying! I wish there was a way to improve the tone and quality of my vaginal tissues.

Anyone else feel the same way? What did/do you do?

~FW

Yes, FW, the vagina is very specialized muscle that forms circular whirls of muscle tissue.

I think many women here would agree that the best way to exercise it is to live in this natural postural shape so that it gets pulled into its correct anatomical dimensions. I can feel my vagina tightening all day long as I move about. How much of this is concious effort I don't know, but practice pulling yourself into the posture as much as you can while at the same time slightly tightening your vaginal walls. C.

Christine and FW,

I was thinking about this too. When I'm on my feet for long periods of time, I notice that I simply wear out trying to manage everything. I've noticed I have a lot of trouble letting my belly relax; I wonder sometimes if any of me ever really relaxes??? When I do make the conscious effort to let my belly relax, and I tighten my buttocks, I don't feel the prolapse at all.

I also don't feel it during yoga class when I attempt the posture because there is this effort to control every muscle in the body - like I'm playing with my body to make certain things happen.

Yoga really does lend itself quite nicely to the posture or vice versa.

I find the whole sloshing things about interesting during the day.

Judy

Change what you can change; be happy with what you cannot.

Thank you! This gives me so much hope!!!!

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