Babies Born ~ September 2007 #72

[Trillian]

Ahhh, that would make sense about the glasses Arte.

Cass, have you got some of those recovery shorts? I wouldn't go so far as to say the risk of prolapse is really high, but it's more to do with the changing hormone levels during menopause. You gave birth last week. Things are going to be a mess for a while. If you get onto the pelvic floor exercises now, you aren't likely to have a problem. I do feel that they have gone a bit OTT though because cervixes and bowels falling out is what I'd expect to hear from a gyno, not midwives TBH. They don't just 'fall out' but they can drop a little and it's all to do with the ligaments that support the uterus. Maybe you could end up with a mild cystocele or rectocele, but they don't just come all the way out that much unless the prolapse is very severe. You would have to experience significant trauma for it to come all the way out. Even a grade 4 prolapse which is the most severe is when the bowel or bladder are protruding from the vagina all the time, but even then it's generally not that much, more of a bulge. that's basic anatomy. Women can have problems after one baby, and some women with 6 can have none. Do the exercises, but don't panic about it. I never got a talk after P about prolapse being a risk, and certainly not after A. Not even the physio who came to see me in hospital said anything about an increased risk of prolapse.