Staying Consistent with Pelvic Floor Exercises

The Importance of Pelvic Floor Exercises

We’ve all heard about them - maybe your mum mentioned her weak pelvic floor, or you're postnatal and were told to do some kegels at your 6 week check.

Like any physio exercise, you probably remember to do them when you have some symptoms or when you see someone post about it on Instagram (wink wink).

Maybe Baby is here already, and between feeds and nappy changes, finding a moment for yourself, let alone doing your pelvic floor exercises, feels impossible.

Or maybe you jumped back into your routine, and something doesn’t feel quite.

Our pelvic floor muscles and core muscles work synergistically to help us create tension when moving (running, walking), lifting things (like our baby, a car seat or a kettlebell) and in high pressure situations (like laughing, sneezing, coughing jumping).

Understanding how our Pelvic Floor works and how to do basic core connection breathing is important, so I'd encourage you to read more in my previous blog here

Working With Your Pelvic Floor

Firstly, I would recommend to anyone who is postpartum to go see a Pelvic Floor Physiotherapist so that they can help you determine what would work for you as an individual.

Knowing how to RELAX your pelvic floor is as important as learning to engage it. A Pelvic Floor Physio give you in depth and specific exercises to work on to help YOU on your road to recovery.

Sneaking it into your daily routine

Like all habits, consistency comes from breaking it down into smaller actions that you can easily integrate into your daily routine.

💖 Doing dishes? Try some some standing kegels.

💖 Feeding your baby? Do simple lifts, holds, and releases.

💖Heading to bed? Do pelvic floor relaxation exercises to switch off and calm your nervous system.

Find a trigger or habit reminder that works for you and go with it - my personal favourite is the bedtime wind-down.

I struggle with having an overactive or hypertonic pelvic floor so for me learning to effectively relax my pelvic floor was an important step in addressing my stress Incontinence.

In my next post, I'll share some lovely yoga poses that you can do at any time of the day to help lengthen and relax a hypertonic pelvic floor.

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WANT TO FIND OUT MORE

The Mumma Membership builds your confidence in understanding your body and improving your physical health, including pelvic floor exercises.

You'll work through a collection of curated resources, workouts and yoga classes to help you prioritise your physical health during pregnancy and beyond.

In all my classes, both in person and online, we spend time at the start and end working on our pelvic floor exercises - so you'll get them in at least twice a week with me.

If you want to find out more about how I can support you in staying strong throughout motherhood, drop me an email at [email protected] or book in for a 15minute discovery call.