Kegel Exercises – A MUST DO During Pregnancy
If there’s ONE bit of advice I want to stress to ALL pregnant women – Do Your Kegel Exercises! Start NOW!
I really wish someone had pounded that into my brain when I was pregnant. Yes, I remember my doctor mentioning them, but he didn’t insist and he didn’t say what could happen if I didn’t.
I’ll be giving you links to some sites that explain what Kegel exercises are and how to do them, so I won’t go into that too much. Suffice it to say, you can do them anywhere, you don’t have to be in position of the photo, although that’s a really easy way to do them.
What I will tell you are some of the benefits of doing Kegels and what can happen if you don’t.
Benefits of doing Kegel exercises:
- improve circulation to your rectal and vaginal area
- prevent or treat urinary incontinence
- help with hemorrhoids
- speed healing after an episiotomy or tearing after childbirth
- maintain bladder control
- improve your sex life!
Up to 70% of women have problems with bladder control after giving birth, so don’t think it won’t happen to you!
Many times, the urinary incontinence will go away only to resurface in later years. So mothers and grandmothers – do your Kegels! For grandmothers, you might want to check out my post here: Urinary Incontinence
Like anything, it’s all a matter of developing the habit of doing them every day, so write a post-it, put a reminder on your cell phone or computer, so do whatever works for you to remind yourself. Every day!
Here’s a good site that explains what Kegel exercises are and how to do them:
And here’s a generic video that explains them pretty well:
Now for something more risque and hilarious as well, here’s a great video of an older and younger woman discussing Kegel exercises:
Enjoy!
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The first Post Pregnancy Periods after giving birth can take a while to come and it can be very difficult as well because your muscles there seem to be numb (at least to me it seems that way). In the hospital I was given a stool softener, but even with that things did not seem to move that easily. The stress and strain seemed to cause this very umcomfortable thing called a hemorrhoid.