Your pelvic floor plays a crucial role in supporting your body during pregnancy, but sometimes it needs extra attention. Ignoring early signs of dysfunction can lead to discomfort, pain, and even long-term issues postpartum. In this blog post, we’ll cover three key signs that indicate your pelvic floor may need help and what you can do about it.

Pregnancy is a time of incredible change, but along with the joy and anticipation, many women experience discomfort—especially in the pelvis. One of the most common pelvic issues during pregnancy is sacroiliac joint (SIJ) pain. If you’ve ever felt a sharp, aching, or burning sensation in your lower back, deep in one side of your buttock, or even radiating down your leg, your SI joints may be the culprit.

Recovering from a C-section takes time and patience, but with the right care, you’ll be on the path to feeling better soon. Focus on resting, taking care of your incision, managing pain, gentle movement, and staying hydrated and nourished.

By understanding the connection between hemorrhoids and the pelvic floor and utilizing effective pelvic floor therapy techniques, you can manage symptoms more effectively and enhance your overall pelvic health.

Experiencing pain or discomfort during intercourse after giving birth? A pelvic floor therapist shares insights on the common causes and effective treatment options.

Struggling with chronic constipation? Your pelvic floor muscles may be the culprit. Learn how pelvic floor dysfunction can lead to constipation and what you can do about it .

Laboring down refers to the practice of waiting to push until baby has assumed a low enough position, specifically a fetal stage of +2 or lower. We will get to this part. Let’s first go over some basics.

Leakage with coughing, sneezing, jumping or running? You may be suffering from stress urinary incontinence. So what exactly is this and what can be done? Continue reading to understand more!

How do you know if you need to go to rehab after having a cesarean? IF YOU’VE HAD A CESAREAN! It’s true, I wish every mom who went through this major surgery went straight to pelvic therapy afterwards. Why? Well, like I said… a c-section is a major surgery. There seems to be a common misbelief that a c-section is actually easier on your body. Totally untrue; and what I hear more times than not is “why would I need pelvic therapy after a c-section? Nothing happened to my vagina?”

We can all Google a list for “postpartum recovery items”… heck, at this point, you can buy a whole kit from brands like Frida Mom. But you won’t find some of our biggest ‘game changer’ items in these kits; in fact, you may not find them on most lists.

Believe it or not, you don’t need an injury or complaint to start pelvic floor therapy during pregnancy. I use this analogy over and over again but I will say it again! Would you show up to run a marathon without any training? DIdn’t think so. So why should we show up to having a baby without prepping our bodies at all. Think of giving birth as a marathon and the 10 months before as your training time. During this time, our goal is to make you feel confident, comfortable, empowered and most importantly, prepared.

Perineal trauma is a common occurrence during a vaginal delivery but did you know that there are ways to reduce your risk? of course there is pelvic floor therapy, which can greatly aide in this. Think of pelvic floor therapy during pregnancy as a way to prepare your body for giving birth. You wouldn’t run a marathon without training, would you? But there are other ways to prep your body that you can absolutely incorporate on your own!

Pelvic organ prolapse or POP refers to the descending or drooping of any of the pelvic floor or reproductive organs. This could include the bladder, uterus, rectum or even the cervix. If these organs descend into or outside of the vaginal canal or anus. We refer to prolapse with these specific names

Vaginal dryness is a common symptom throughout many different stages of life. In fact, it is totally normal to need to add a little lube during different seasons of life, varying times of your menstrual cycle or even with various medications.

One of my favorite techniques to show my mama-to-be’s is the tug-of-war. The simple addition of a piece of fabric to your pushing can significantly improve your pushing power in an ultra safe, pelvic floor type of way!

Here’s whats happening: when you are pulling on this piece of fabric, you are engaging your lats (back muscles) which will open up your pelvic floor outlet and create more power without damaging the pelvic floor. You can do this two different ways:

Tis’ the season…for coughing, sneezing, & leaking?

Unfortunately so many of us have had that moment…at a holiday party, a play date, running errands, you feel a sneeze coming on and try to play coy crossing your legs hoping for the best. Well, we can do better, much better. You can’t fix your pelvic floor issues overnight, or right before you need to cough or sneeze, but there are definitely a few things you can do to set yourself up for success, and hopefully, less leakage.