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As a new mom, it's important to take care of your own emotional and physical well-being in addition to caring for your new baby. While it's normal to experience some urinary leakage and pelvic pain immediately after giving birth, if these symptoms persist beyond the three-month mark, it's important to seek help. Neglecting your own health can lead to bigger problems down the road. Proper exercise and support can help reverse the physical changes that occur during pregnancy and improve your pelvic floor health. Consider attending a free pelvic floor workshop or try a pelvic floor workout for support and guidance.

Kegel exercises are often recommended for improving pelvic floor strength and addressing incontinence or pelvic pain, but they may not be the most effective solution. To truly improve the health of your pelvic floor muscles, it's important to incorporate a variety of exercises that engage not just the pelvic floor muscles, but also the rest of the body. Just like training for a running race requires building cardiovascular endurance and leg and core muscle strength, training the pelvic floor muscles requires a holistic approach that includes purposeful movement. If you're struggling with pelvic floor issues, know that you're not alone and there is help available. Consider attending a free pelvic floor workshop for guidance and support.

Inactivity is a major contributor to incontinence, particularly in nursing home residents, but it can affect anyone. Maintaining an active lifestyle, good posture, and core strength is crucial for maintaining pelvic floor health. Poor posture, such as rounded shoulders and a bent forward spine, can lead to shortened and weakened muscles in the chest, hips, and pelvis. This can cause the entire core to weaken and internal organs to lose their support, further stressing and weakening the pelvic floor. To avoid problems like incontinence in later years, it's important to learn how to properly exercise and move the pelvis, hips, and spine in all directions. This can help maintain pelvic floor health throughout your lifetime.