Welcome back beautiful people! This week on the show I chat to the incredibly knowledgeable Bernadette Lack (B) about everything Pelvic Health! She is the Founder of Core and Floor Restore.
Bernadette is a midwife, personal trainer, wife, mother and published author. She has two little boys, having only given birth to her most recent - Aloysius 5 weeks ago.
Since 2007 she has worked as a midwife across Australia and overseas in a variety of settings from remote Aboriginal communities to large city hospitals to homebirth.
Bernadette has experienced incontinence since she was 19-years-old. In 2016, as part of her preconception care, she finally went and consulted with a women's health physio.
She was told to do her kegels, stop running and wait four months before conceiving. She did her kegels and stopped running. She kept leaking. Four months later she became pregnant.
We chat about:
•Pelvic floor exercises in pregnancy - Did you know by doing them regularly you can decrease your chance of tearing and decrease pushing time?
•What you can do in pregnancy to help your pelvic floor
•Diastasis recti - what is it? And what we can do to avoid damage
•Kegals - How do you do them and are you doing them right?
•50% of women will experience prolapse - We discuss what you need to look out for
•If you've had a C Section - do you need to worry about your pelvic floor?
•What other things besides pregnancy cause pelvic floor problems
•Exercise after birth - when can you get back into it?
•Postpartum tightness - is this a pelvic floor thing?
•Pain with sexual intercourse postpartum
•How to release a tight pelvic floor
•How to know if you're doing your pelvic floor exercises properly
•And so much more!
I hope you enjoy this episode!
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