Hi Linda,

It's good to hear you've been to have it checked out.

I think that's one of the things i'm finding difficult with my experience is Ifind it's hard to gauge what a "normal" post natal vagina should be like and compare it with the symptoms I've got. I think I put my faith in people like my ob who said it looked normal, but in fact, months later I learned that it was not normal at all.

I can't really figure out or get my head around what normal is. I don' t know if other women who've had straight forward births feel that there vagina is any different or can wear tampons with no troubles. I've read a couple of posts where a number of women say they can't wear tampons since having children, but I don't know if they've all got minor symptoms of prolapse or if tampons don't sit right for most people after having a baby? Is it normal to have a prolapse of the vaginal wall after giving birth?

I guess that's what I was referring to in my earlier post when I said I'd found it difficult to get help. I don't understand how my ob and gp (who didn't even look) could say it was all normal and yet months later 2 seperate physios say that I have a prolapse.

I think it's possible to see someone like the doctor you saw today who tells you it's "normal" and then realise months later that you still have a problem. (Am hoping this post is coming out ok as I have a grizzling, wriggly baby on my lap so am finding it difficult to concentrate - don't know if I'm making any sense or if it's sounding all doom and gloom which it's not meant to)!

I don't know what sort of birth you had and the chances are that you've had you're baby so recently you'll probably dramatically improve over the coming months. However, if I were you, I would keep pursuing it until you get to see a physio and have a pelvic floor exercise program written specifically for you. If I had have insisted on seeing a physio (which I've since learnt you don't need a referal for) I might not be sitting here 6 months later unable to wear a tampon, swim, run or some days even walk around the block! A trip to a private physio cost me $80 and i reckon it's worth every cent!

Obviously you need to allow your body a bit of time to heal, but don't let them fob you off! Good luck!

ps. Like Yael says there are different types of prolapse - I think mine is a uterine prolapse.