Getting Your Old (Abdominal) Life Back After Giving Birth

Chispa MagazineWelcome to the club of new mothers. A club, in which you need to take the bitter with the sweet. It is a truly fantastic experience to become a mother, but unfortunately it often includes a number of physical effects that may be tedious and painful, as well as obstructive in your daily life.

Every Third Woman Wets Her Pants
Every third woman struggles with incontinence after giving birth. The same goes for every second primiparous woman. However, many women suffer in silence. They feel embarrassed of the inability to hold back urine, resulting in making their everyday lives a long wet nightmare. The fear and uncertainty of where and when it happens, has a negative effect on the quality of life, but is nevertheless completely natural.

Pregnancy and birth are extreme strains on the pelvic floor muscles, resulting in strange, and sometimes painful side effects in the lower regions.

For instance, it’s normal to get hemorrhoids in connection with pregnancy and birth and hemorrhoids are absolutely inconvenient. They hurt, burn and itch, but only few women talk about them. For many women, hemorrhoids are a taboo and the same goes for the so-called vaginal farts.

Vaginal farts, or vaginal flatulence, are also completely natural after having given birth, due to limp pelvic floor muscles. Some women also experience them before giving birth—e. g. during sex. But you may experience increased vaginal flatulence after having given birth, and you may not be able to control them at all. A vaginal fart can make every woman blush at home in marital bed. But it can be extremely socially inhibiting, if you experience them while at work or when you are out with friends.

It Is Never Too Late to Squeeze
Did you know these physical effects could in most cases be avoided with continuous and regular pelvic floor training before and after pregnancy?

However, if the damage is done, it’s never too late to restore the old abdominal strength by means of pelvic floor training. It’s never too late to squeeze and most women will be able to cure themselves from most physical abdominal effects.

But it is important that you get started as quickly as possible and that you squeeze correctly and regularly. In order to help you do so, a midwife, a physiotherapist and a gynecologist have collaborated in developing a mobile App with a pelvic floor training program, which offers correct training methods and exercises to get back to normal.

Regardless of whether you are skilled or the exercises are completely new to you, the training program includes videos, photos, and sound files that teach new exercises, which you can do anywhere and with anyone. It’s an easy, handy, and discrete exercise tool.

Pelvic Floor Exercises can be found on the App Store and Google Play.

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