The Hidden Mystery Behind Incontinence

1. The Hidden Mystery Behind Incontinence When my daughter was 6 months old I went on a date with my husband to see Michael Frantic. It was my first real night out and I was feeling warm and fuzzy from my drink. As Michael Frantic began to sing all my favorite songs, I was dancing, singing, and jumping with the crowd from about 4 rows back from the stage. All of a sudden, I peed all over myself. completely out of nowhere, as in, SOAKED my pants all the way down to my knees. I was confused, embarrassed, and completely shocked at how I went from totally fine to soaked without even a hint or warning. I stayed at that concert in pee-soaked clothes. I didn’t even tell my husband what had happened. It was jam-packed, and we were all sweating to death, so my whole outfit was soaked by either sweat or pee. I decided to screw social norms, I am not ruining my first night out nor giving up seeing my favorite artist, so I ordered other drinks and stopped jumping because it kept making me pee myself. It was suggested by one of my friends that it was unusual to have incontinence show up so late after birth and that it was probably a low-grade infection that cleared on its own.

2. But later I realize that I really need to learn and know about UI so that I can help myself and help others as well. Here I want to share a few points from my R&D. one It takes six months minimum for the relaxing hormone that allows your tendons and ligaments to stretch for birth to fully leave your body postnatal. If you are nursing, relaxing hangs around until you ween your little one. This means that you still don’t have stability in your pelvis after a vaginal delivery, for longer than that six-week maternity leave or even that “fourth trimester two

3. It usually takes around 2yeas for the tendons and ligaments to return to their original length and strength post-birth. This means that not only is the relaxing hormone keeping everything unstable but the actual integrity of the tendons and ligaments is compromised until you have a toddler on your hands. I swear, this is why women who have back-to-back babies that are two years apart struggle so much with that second pregnancy. They didn’t have enough time to recover before they put their body through the weight of growing a baby all over again. three We are not taking the time to re-educate our pelvic floors, we are not repairing our diastatic recti, and we are doing our Kegels wrong. By neglecting our pelvic health after a vaginal delivery we are inducing the UI to some extend. four What if you are doing everything right though? Sometimes your uterus nestles back in a misaligned state. It had a HUGE job to do. It grew from 4 ounces and underneath your public bone to your rib cage, birthed your baby, and then contracted back to 4 ounces over the course of a year. When working with women postpartum, I am noticing 100% of them in my massage practice still have an anteriorly tilted pelvis from creating space for their growing child during pregnancy. This tilt encourages the uterus to fall forward into ante-flexion and lean on top of the uterus.

4. What Can You Do Now? • If you think that you may be experiencing from a misaligned uterus, you have been told that your uterus is tilted, or you have been told that it is a “variation of normal”, please seek out the professional advice of a therapist for a postpartum session and learn the self-care techniques to nurture your womb space with increased blood, lymph, nerve, and energy flow. • Use of urinary incontinence pads which can be your great companion for attending a dance party or sports day of your kids’.

5. • Practice Kegel in a proper way to deal with UI in an effective way, a physical therapist who specializes in pelvic floor care can teach you how to re-educate your pelvic floor muscles correctly postnatal. You are not going to be able to wait out your recovery, nor will you be able to bind your way back into a pre-pregnancy body. Binding helps support your weak core and pelvic floor while you heal postpartum and then begin to restrengthen your body, but we don’t move in the ways that we once did before tv and couches. Once upon a time, we didn’t need a gym. Back then, we didn’t need to learn how to re-educate our new post-birth bodies. Source