Prolapse Recovery

[newmum7]

Hello! I'm now 16 weeks post partum after the birth of my first child and I was diagnosed with a grade 2 cystocele and a rectocele at 8 weeks post partum. I've been seeing a physio ever since, doing my exercises, but I'm not feeling much improvement. If anything I feel worse as I now have to splint in order to pass a BM where I didn't before. I'm still breastfeeding and my periods haven't returned. I guess I would like to hear about other women's experiences of prolapse post partum... ideally with positive outcomes! Feeling extremely low about this all... very worried about post partum depression.

Join POP fitness fb group. I am 7 months pp with a grade 2/3 anterior and posterior prolapse and fairly severe muscle damage. Doing ok with a cube pessary and being very careful with lifting etc. It's a massive pain and hard to come to terms with being stuck managing this forever. I'd say mentally I'm 70% better than at your stage but I suspect it will take me a fair while to fully accept it. The pessary has been a huge help and I've also lost some weight and been to physio. It's shit, I sympathise. It happened to me with my second baby and my husband works long hours so little chance to rest with a toddler. Definitely get a post natal recovery programme going like hab-it or mutu or restore your core. I am not thrilled about it but feel a lot less despondent and am doing my best to manage all the factors that cause issues as well as downing movicol to keep the bowels moving. With the pessary, i can do 85% of what I was doing before and I'm comfortable. Big hugs, you will find a way through and feel happy and strong again. Xx

@newmum7 hello I feel your pain, I have a uterine prolapse, I think it's a grade 2 as I can see it at the entrance of my vagina, worst thing is this is my first baby AND I'm only 23 years old!!!! -_- I've been doing kegels 3-4 times a day everyday since I found out using the nhs Squeezy app and my symptoms have improved, I'm nearly 7 weeks postpartum and the dragging feeling has gone but there's still a weird feeling there like if I stand a certain way I can feel it more and like bubbles (annoying) I dunno it's fucking shit and I have been extremely depressed as well and it's even harder being so low and having to deal with a new baby and keep the house tidy and eat well etc etc etc all while feeling emotionally and physically unwell. Maybe after a year you might actually feel a lot better, a lot of people say that time is the biggest healer when it comes to these things but if your like me and have 0 patience and anxiety it's very hard to accept that, hope you recover well let me know how you do sending a lot of love your way!