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Does anyone know the best posture for nursing a sweet baby? Mine is about 20lbs. I usually lean back on the couch with baby in my arms, but that doesn't seem to match the posture we are supposed to keep. If I nurse cross-legged on the floor I have to slouch as he is too heavy to hold up.

Hi to everyone. Just wondering how my fellow pregnant ladies are doing? Granolamum I've seen a few posts of yours and you seem to be doing great - congrats. Bigmomma, you still around? I know there's a couple of other pregnant women on here too, sorry can't remember names.
I'm 6 months pregnant now and doing ok. I still have good and bad prolapse days, uterus doesn't feel that high and I still get bulgy feelings, nothing I can't live with. I've a loosening in my sacro-iliac joints (results in lower back pain) and would love to wear a support belt but have to balance the benefit to the back with the squeezing at the front of my pelvis so so far I've managed without it.

I am 32 and had my 2nd child on 7th Feb 07. All was well and i had a fantastically easy labour which ended up being unplanned at home.I delivered the baby myself and after a check with the midwife all was deemed ok and i spent the day resting in bed with my little girl. Was feeling fantastic & really rather pleased with myself when to my horror a week later i suffered from a prolapse. I felt it happen whilst out grocery shopping carrying my baby in a front carrier while carrying several shopping bags. I felt very sharp lower ab pain and that evening could feel my cervix (i think) at the entrance to my vagina. as you can imagine i was totally and utterly horrified, i have always been extremely fit active and healthy to the point of being thought of as a bit of a fanatic, and was utterly distraught that this had happened to me and felt my life would change beyond recognition. To a large extent it has i no longer am able to do the high impact aerobics or martial arts that i love and have to get my partner to do all the heavy lifting. I'm not even sure what has prolapsed now as my cervix seems to have retreated a bit and i now have more of a soft bulgy 'thing' just in side my vagina which from your faqs sounds more like a cystocele but could be my uterus. Im waiting for a gyn appt so don't have an accurate diagnosis just yet. I have so many questions and really this website is the only place I've found any helpful info. Everywhere else just seems to promote surgery.I may even consider this in the future but am a firm believer and practitioner of all things natural and encouraging my body to heal itself first. I haven't even attempted sex yet but really want to, i do worry this could make things worse and not to put too fine a point on it my partner is very well endowed so worry this will be even more risky? Any one with any advice?

Hi Ladies:

I have from what I am told a very minor prolapsed bladder. From what I have read, being that it is so minor I should be symptom free. I have been seen by 3 doctors.

Lately I feel very uncomfortable. I am not in pain persay but just feeling kind of lumpy. I have done the self check and can't find the prolapse on my own, and yet, it feels like something is out of place down there. (I think that is the best way to describe it). Or that something has gotten folded?!

I am frustrated, I can't imagine that this is how I am supposed to spend the rest of my life. I am 40 years old. I know I am not alone but I am just having a very bad day and I really need support.

I was diagnosed recently with rectocele. This forum has eased my mind significantly! However, I find if I have to stand in one place for a while (long lines in South America) sit in a hard chair for an extended time, I begin to feel pressure building again. Is this a common complaint of those with rectocele? Are there some activities that are absolutely NO-NO? Thanks.

What about yoga? I heard it was good for my condition, but after doing my first class yesterday my cystocele was in a bad way. I really enjoyed the class, though, and wish I had discovered it sooner. Maybe I wouldn't be in this state? Anyone have info about yoga, good or bad?

Hi,
Since I have not seen any other vagina's but my own... I would like some feedback from any willing to help me.
When I take a mirror- and look.... on both sides of the opening to my vagina, I see two balls the size of marbles.
Now, on days that i feel more "prolapse" I see a second layer of tissue (which is my urethra coming down).
I know that the tissue of the urethra is prolapse. What about those two pink "balls" of tissue surrounding the opening?
Are the balls the beginning of the prolapse, or are they there for everyone? Please help me.. Any photos I come across online are just of

Is Pilates contraindicated in prolapse cases? Can it be helpful? What about prone positions?

Hi

Progesterone cream was recommended to me to use following the birth of my baby - to avoid the crash in hormones and post natal depression. I did have postnatal depression and using the progesterone cream has made a huge difference to this and still does. My question is would using this hormone have been likely to have made my prolapse worse and would that still be the case ? I am now 8 months post partum.

many thanks !

Hi

I have a problem since the birth of my baby with tampons slipping to the entrance of my vagina. Why is this and can I do anything about it ?

thank you so much !