Gah its falling out!

[*Efjay*]

this is so not something I want to have to ask.....

BUT I think I have a prolapse. Be ready for a TMI post...

My bleeding has settled heaps in the last couple of days. But then yesterday I had been shopping & was out & about most of the day & then there was some fresh bleeding. Not a lot but still. Anyway I got in the shower & felt like there was a clot coming out. So I stood & kinda waited for it to plop on the shower floor & nothing came.
So I tightened things a bit to kinda push it out. Still nothing came but I could still feel it sitting there just on the inside of my vulva.

So I had a feel.... It was the upper wall (so towards the pubic bone I guess) of my vagina! Now I know I have had 5 kids but farrk!
Now The thing is, I am trying to do my Pelvic floor exercises but I really feel like I physically can't do it. I am trying but not much is moving when I do. Now to make it worse. While I was feeling around I tried to tighten it all up & it just felt like it was pushing it down & out!

Now obviously I will mention this when I go for my post natal check/pap smear at 6 weeks. But I wonder if I should go get seen before that?

Or is it fairly normal for 2 weeks pp?

[LionsandBears]

I don't know if it's normal or not, but I'd want to see someone earlier. You need a referral to a post-natal physio to help with exercises and get an assessment on how serious it is.

[~Stoked~]

I discovered the exact same thing 2 weeks PP. I panicked and went to have it checked and the physio said it was normal after just having a baby. She used an u/s to make sure I was doing my PFE correctly (which I wasn't.. Apparently I was pushing down instead of pulling up! WTF!?) and she told me to come back at 6 weeks PP. By then everything had gone back to normal. My sister and my mum told me they had exactly the same thing happen. So please don't panic like I did! Obviously get it checked at your 6 week check, keep doing your PFE even if it feels like it's not working.

[krystals]

Oh honey I know exactly what you're going through!

DS is 8 months now and I had put it off until now thinking it was just 'normal' for it to happen. I haven't had any other indication except for pain and er... knowing that something just doesn't feel right! Anyway, I started amping my exercise up and ended up having serious pain- worse than before. I guess I'd been a bit embarrassed before, or just thought it was normal.

Yesterday I saw a post-natal physio specialist as a private patient. She has given me a heap of pelvic floor exercises.... BUT they're not the ones I got given in the hopsital or just the 'hold your pee' kind of things. She said that what I've been doing is like trying to stretch your hamstrings, but all you're doing is wiggling your big toe. She's lovely and kinda told me off for waiting so long (but in a nice way).

I'd talk to your care provider at your checkup, but I'd make an appt before your 6 weeks. Otherwise you might just keep putting it off. It still might be too soon to work that area too vigorously in terms of exercise, but it would be better to get the info asap.

I hope this has made sense- the gist of it should be....don't wait too long, get onto some physio, it's really not 'that' bad or embarrassing.

[*Efjay*]

Thank you

Krystal what kind of pain did you experience? My Back is out of Whack. 5 kids, 2 posterior births.. Im not surprised.

I was talking to my Mum about seeing a chiro for my back but she said to soon after birth do core strengthening exercises. So I might start that, Just found a good looking post natal yoga tute on You tube.
I will try & get along to the drop in clinic & talk to the childhealth nurse & see what she says & then see the Dr if she thinkgs I should before 6 weeks.