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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Christine
November 26, 2016 - 11:00am
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postpartum rectocele
Hi Zo,
Congratulations on the birth of your beautiful baby girl.
Please rest assured that you have every possibility of recovering.
However, some subtle but important shifts in how you understand your condition need to take place in order for you to do the work of healing.
First of all, your doctor says the rectocele is the cause of the slow-healing episiotomy, when in truth the episiotomy undoubtedly caused or worsened the rectocele. But yes, loss of your natural vaginal sphincter, which can never be fully repaired or regained, is allowing your lower back vaginal wall to balloon against your perineum and irritate the wound.
A good place for you to start is with Whole Woman Wisdom for the Childbearing Years, which you can find here:
https://www.wholewomanstore.com/Whole-Woman-Wisdom-for-the-Childbearing-...
As has already become self-evident to you, the ability to contract your pelvic wall muscles has no bearing on the rectocele. What is needed is a new understanding, most particularly that in natural anatomy the pelvic organs are positioned at the front of the body and away from the outlet at the back.
When you learn to hold your abdominal contents forward, the back vaginal and front rectal walls are pulled up and into their natural alignment, which smoothes out the rectocele pocket.
The work is not just about exercise, but about how we hold our body as we sit, stand and move throughout the day. How we use the toilet is also critically important to healing rectocele.
If you follow WW techniques, I would expect you to feel immensely better within 6 months. There is no surgery for rectocele that doesn’t come without extreme risk of additional and far worse symptoms. Really, the only reasonable response is to bring all of these tissues back into their original alignment, which you can’t do with a few sessions of PT. It is a total lifestyle change.
Wishing you well,
Christine
Aussie Soul Sister
November 28, 2016 - 2:46pm
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ZoWhat - Rectocele
Dear ZoWhat,
I was your age when I had my first baby & during my second pregnancy, I noticed what I now know is a rectocele.
I didn't worry about it- I had a third child as well and the prolapse was never an issue with giving birth or during the pregnancies. I had ipisiotomys with all and forceps with the first.
My biggest challenge post - partum was to manage bowel movements carefully with diet, but it took a while to realise that fruit was the key rather than lots of dry fiber and the resulting need to drink copious amounts of water.
There was nothing like this when I was your age, and I had to wait a long time hoping for an alternative to surgery before I found Whole Woman.
The advantage you have now is that you can delve into Christine's approach which is holistic and practical, with life - long benefits.
Wishing you all the best,
Aussie Soul Sister