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granolamom
March 6, 2008 - 9:14am
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hi mandy
you and your husband are right to assume that this happens to many women after having babies.
when your dr asked about incontinence he may have meant stress-incontinence, which means that when increased pressure (ie, coughing, sneezing) is put on the bladder, urine leaks out. this can happen for many reasons, but since you already know that your uterus is a bit low, I would assume that it *may be related to prolapse.
the pelvic organs are all connected, so a lower uterus can indicate a lower, or malpositioned, bladder as well.
the good news, is that your prolapse sounds extremely mild. I don't know about grading systems, I ignore the numbers since they don't mean much in terms of my daily life. your uterus is not going to fall out anytime soon, and my guess is that you can successfully prevent it from falling out at all!
The posture advocated on this site helps you do that. chances are the way you are currently holding your body places your uterus directly over the vagina (a hole). in the Wholewoman posture, your uterus would be placed directly over the pubic symphysis - a bone. now you tell me, which would you rather have supporting a uterus!
now, kegels, are useful and not. useful for controlling stress incontinence because you can learn to squeeze the muscles at the end of the urethra when you sneeze. this prevents urine from leaking out because you can increase the pressure from below(kegeling) as the pressure increases from above (sneezing). however, its unlikely that all the kegels in the world will reverse a prolapse. those muscles were not designed to reposition pelvic organs. and its also unlikely that kegels will hold prolasped organs in either, even *if* the muscles were strong enough to do that (unlikely since they are oh-so-small), you can't walk around all day maintaining a kegel!
but that's ok, because once you get a hang of the posture (its second nature to me) those muscles automatically tighten because of the way the pelvis is positioned.
so.....I'd say you're in a very good place right now to prevent things from going any further. start by reading up on the faq's here and if you can, order Christine's book (saving the wholewoman, but get the second edition).