If there are symptoms postpartum, such as pain or leakage, there are things that we can do at that time to help, especially for women who didn’t have those struggles during pregnancy or even that immediate postpartum period. Sometimes those things come very quickly. Sometimes we see them a year later. Sometimes we see them not until menopause.
Regardless of when those symptoms occur, the sooner that we attack the problem, the easier really it is to treat. We may not need to meet multiple times a week, usually once a week for thirty minutes, establishing a home program that the patient can do at home. Usually a home program for a patient consists of about fifteen to twenty minutes of exercises with minimal equipment, if any equipment needed. We usually try and instruct exercises that can be done at home, on the floor, in bed, throughout the day.
So who has time to take care of their body when they have a newborn, right? The exercises that we do for simply strengthening the pelvic floor are pretty simple. They don’t take much time, just a couple of minutes. It doesn’t require a gym membership or even putting on a pair of sweats. Does require consistency though. But you’re doing things consistently with the baby, so we try to tie that in with baby care.