Healing your Pelvic Floor After Birth

The Pelvic Floor is one of the most important groups of muscles for postpartum recovery. It is the foundation of your core, it helps to support your organs and it helps to reduce incontinence and leaking.

In this video our Women’s Health Physiotherapist and Founder of the Empowered Motherhood Program Lyz Evans takes you through an express pelvic floor workout to help you to connect to these oh-so-important muscles.

So before we start. What is the Pelvic Floor?

Your pelvic floor is a combination of muscle, ligaments and fascia that sit in your pelvic bowl. Your pelvic floor connects to your tailbone and the back, your pubic bone at the front and your sit bones on either side. It acts like a hammock or sling to support your bowel, bladder and uterus.

The pelvic floor is responsible for:

• Supporting the organs of the pelvis during rest and whilst moving. A job which is much harder during pregnancy.
• Maintaining continence.
• Increasing pleasure and sensation during sex.
• Supporting your organs during high-pressure activities such as coughing, jumping or sneezing.

No matter how you gave birth, your postpartum recovery starts with your pelvic floor! If you gave birth vaginally, your pelvic floor may have had to stretch up to 3 times its normal length to allow for your babies head to pass out.

If you gave birth via C-Section you still will have a weekend pelvic floor due to nine months of having to support the extra weight of your uterus, increased blood volume and additional weight!

In this video our Women’s Health Physiotherapist and Founder of the Empowered Motherhood Program Lyz Evans takes you through an express pelvic floor workout to help you to connect to these -oh-so-important muscles.

In just 3 minutes you will have connected to your pelvic floor and are on the way to creating a stronger and healthier postpartum body from the inside-out. Next step is to combine this with our pelvic floor safe workouts. For a strong and empowered motherhood.

We hope you enjoyed this video and if you have any pelvic floor questions - please get in touch with us at the Empowered Motherhood Program.

Have a great day and don’t forget your pelvic floor!