If your pelvic floor got shot to pieces with first birth, did it make second birth harder?

[Picante]

Physio gave me a 2 out of 5 for my pelvic floor after ds1. Add to that a vaginal prolapse and it's all rather fallen apart. I am doing pf exercises but it seems rather futile...

Pelvic floor exercises are not futile. I remember my doctor saying my pelvic floor was very weak after dd2's birth, so I saw the physio and did the exercises religiously and ds's birth was fine.

What has your physio told you?

I think the thing with the pelvic floor is that even when you think it can't get any worse - it does! So it's definately worth doing those exercises.

Any tips on how to remember doing them?

If you do them at traffic lights when waiting for the lights to change (or for the green man if walking with dcs) that's one way to remember - no good if you live out in the country with no traffic lights though!

Everytime you log on to mumsnet...every time you check your mobile phone....every time you are stopped at traffic lights. You need to do them every day forever, all women do, because even if you have no problems now, many older women do have problems.

You physio should instruct you on how to do them effectively.