Just saying 'Hi'!

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Hi everyone! Been stalking whole woman for a week or so now and thought it was about time I introduced myself! So here it is - I gave birth to my gorgeous boy 6wks ago! He weighed around the 7lbs mark but unfortunately the midwife messed up the birth weight so we'll never truly know : ( This is my 2nd baby. Both deliveries were exactly 50mins from start to finish! Both were extremely straight forward, no tears or anything!! At the time I thought I was very lucky but thanks to the quick deliveries I now have a good 'ol prolapse due to lack of stretching time!! Took 3 visits to the doctors to diagnose me as they kept telling me 'everything was normal'! On the 3rd visit I insisted they exam me standing up and there it was - my cystocele, oh joy! To say I was upset is an understatement! This was a week and a half ago and I'm feeling surprisingly positive! For me (the most negative person I know) is pretty good, lol! Not sure what degree my prolapse is at, and think I have maybe slight rectocele too but I'm forever hopeful it will improve over time. The bulging is annoying and the pains get to me but I keep telling myself 'its not life threatening'.

Have been thinking about buying the whole woman book and dvd as the comments seem amazingly positive. The only thing stopping me is the price! Have people seen vast improvements from doing the exercises? I really want to be proactive in getting this sorted and I'm not willing to wait 3mths to see if there is improvement like the doc said!

Sorry it's such a long rambling post but I feel better just for sharing!!

I have to say I love the inventive names WW women have created!

Congratulations on the birth of your beautiful baby boy. Sorry to hear about your prolapse experience - and having suffered a prolapse myself can empathise with your initial upset - very understandable. I'm so pleased you're feeling better about it - and wanting to be proactive about improving the situation.
My expereince was that the book and the dvd were amazingly helfpul and helped me to recover to the extent that so long as take care with my posture and regualarly swim or do the WW exercises, I can lead a normal life. (I may skip skiing in snow plough and pushing cars though!) Last Christmas when I suffered my prolapse I was in lots discomfort and pain and off sick. So for me the recovery rate was impressive. I thnk I may have to take care, keep healthy and do the exerecises forever - but to be honest that all feels so good, that's fine.
My advice is don't wait - the sooner you learn how to manage and improve your symptoms, the better you'll feel.
Good luck!
Best wishes, wholewomanuk

welcome to the site and congrats on the baby!
you do sound pretty positive, which is fantastic! I'm never in a positive mood 6 weeks pp, even without the prolapse worries. so hats off to you!
to answer your question, I have seen vast improvements from incorporating the posture, firebreathing and nauli. I am no longer visibly bulging, I am hardly ever symptomatic.
I agree with you, and would not recommend a wait and see approach, but rather do everything I could to prevent this from getting worse and to help it get better asap.
will just add that 6 weeks pp is really early, it takes up to two years for your body to fully recover from childbirth, and even then it will not look like a body that has never carried and birthed a child. many of us have found that our symptoms actually worsened to an all time low at around 12 weeks pp and then proceeded to improve. not saying that will happen to you, just that is happens so dont get discouraged if you dont see instant improvement.
wholewoman works, its just not an instant quick-fix. some see change quickly, some dont. in either case, I look at it as a lifestyle.
enjoy that baby of yours, and keep coming back with any questions you may have.

1. the baby's weight. you know what, I believe you can know. Your body can intuit the weight if it's important to you. Just sit quietly and ask. A number will come to you. I'm sure of it. For us, it became less and less important as we moved though our parenting journey. Our last 2 births were unassisted at home and I didn't even bother with a weight for a while. Our babies were perfect, we didn't need a number to tell us that. But I remember it was important to me with my earlier births. And my kids love to know what they all weighed. So, go for it. Ask away.
2. Fast birth did not cause your prolapse. It would be much more likely that pregnancy caused it :)
3. things are going to improve- but you are learning one of the lessons about healing. It takes time and work. But it's time that is going to go right on by regardless of if you work on healing or you don't.
4. The cost. Well, you are worth the cost and if it keeps you out of the drs office then you save money!

Take a deep breath. You are going to get better. Your body just did an incredible thing. You gave life to another human being. Three months is going to fly by! Let's talk in terms of years. I say in 3 years this prolapse will be a memory.