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Child birth
- don't regret a beautiful experience

Planning is important

For many years prospective mothers have been advised to plan ahead to do everything possible to give their child the healthiest start in life. Women are encouraged to maintain a healthy diet, take appropriate supplements (eg folic acid), reduce their alcohol intake and give up smoking even before they try to get pregnant. But there is very little advice to prepare you body for nine months of carrying around a heavy weight and try to alleviate all the postural problems that this can cause.

Effective pelvic floor exercises to strengthen the pelvic floor play a key role in helping support the internal organs and your baby during pregnancy. They can also make the process of childbirth easier and definitely speed up your recovery.

Get back into shape

Childbirth can be a very traumatic process and it quite usual for the pelvic floor muscles to be stretched, torn or cut during delivery.

As a direct result of childbirth it is estimated that half of all new mothers will suffer from poor bladder control and embarrassing urine leaks. According to recent clinical publications, as many as 80% will suffer from various degrees of vaginal prolapse and other related problems due to pelvic floor weakness.

The extent to which stretched or weakened pelvic floor muscles affect the sex lives of young couples has not been quantified but the lack of intimate contact following childbirth is a problem that can persist and affect many relationships.

All these problems will just get worse with time, and especially after the menopause when the vaginal muscles begin to atrophy due to a lack of oestrogen.

As the main cause of all these problems is stretched or weakened pelvic floor muscles then the solution is effective exercise, and this means regular squeezing against resistance using a PelvicToner

Note: The manufacturers of the PelvicToner do not recommend the use of the PelvicToner during pregnancy. This is purely for pragmatic reasons and follows guidance given by many specialists in the field.