Where did my pelvic floor go?

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I've largely been ignoring my pelvic floor since my dd was born three years ago but I was bouncing up and down on a trampoline with her the other day and...well, you can guess the rest. Being lazy and stupid I'm generally better at actually taking exercise if I have a gadget to help me out, so I was wondering if anyone has tried any of these gizmos they sell in the back of glossy mags that claim to help you tone it all up?

Please save me before I embarrass myself in public (rather than the back garden - not a euphemism).

all women wet themselves on trampolines

don't worry

I discovered my pelvic floor was, erm, compromised when I got on the treadmill at the gym when my ds was 6 weeks old.
I bought those weighted cones from Boots and they were fantastic. Have never looked back, even after 2nd preg. I run most days and tramploine with gay abandon!

trampoline!

um i had a bit of bother when i tried swimming about 6months after bad v delivery.

It was really upsetting, knowing that I was uploading water so to speak.

i never tried those cones, but often think of having a go. Maybe I could try those stacking cups my daughter used to have.

sorry, its not fun is it, but if nts says they work then maybeits worth having a go.

If you find your pelvic floor, could you tell me how I can find mine too??

lol, i convince myself i have one stary, if yet it may be a different matter if I actually ever had sex agin, ie found a partner. I am terrified at the prospect of being commonly know as slack.

I live in a very small town

ooh they do work, but don't do what I did and use the heaviest one first.It plopped out when I went upstairs!

lol, so wahts the score with them then. How do they work, do you have to keep them in all day or for a time, i can just imagine shuffling round, doing the school run, the supermarket, not!!!

Hurrah! I will give them a go. I look forward to a lifetime of swimming, trampolining, playing tennis, roller skating - hang on, now this is turning into a tampax commercial.

PS Starry, I would look for you but people would talk (even more than about your slackness, pirategirl).

hey i'm slack in most ways why not there. How much are they?
any one got any they wanna sell-JOKING

Mine have got 3 cones, in increasing weights. You pop them in, lightest at first and gradually increase what you do from just standing still feeling wierd to walking, stair climbing etc and then you move up to the next heaviest.
Talking about selling them, my sister has asked to borrow them. Is that odd?!

no , not your sis, or your best mate, i just wouldnt get them off ebay lol. altho I'd like an ebay price.

ponders on what could possibly be used instead

Only if you don't wash them first. My sisters used to squeeze my spots at the bus top when I was a teenager so I may be a bad judge of what's odd.

What name do the cones go by if I'm reducing to asking for assistance at Boots?

dh has some ideas about what could be used instead but I definitely don't think I should trust his judgement

Clout cross trainer

i suppose you could disenfect them

Seriously, ntsmum what are they called? My local Boots is small and imperfectly formed so I may have to look for them on the website.

tries to be clever and post a link but failed! They're called 'aquaflex' cones, you can see them on the Boots website

excellent - I will be as good as new in no time. Btw, if you run a search on "Aquaflex" it also comes up with incontinence pads. Charming...

I hope never to have to go down that depressing road

Funnily enough, there is someone selling them on Ebay! cgi.ebay.co.uk/Aquaflex-Pelvic-Floor-Exercise-Cones-bnib_W0QQitemZ260139728437QQihZ016QQcateg oryZ67590QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

My most embarassing moment was on holiday one year when I just could not find a toilet and I started to leak. I was trying to stand behind a building, really trying to hold it in when my son announced to the world, "Mum, are you wetting yourself"!!! I have since found out I have a prolapse, so am being actively encouraged to take the "lift" as often as possible by my GP! Trouble is, how many of us actually remember to do our exercises?

No bids so far - how surprising.

Never mind RoundtheBend,if it doesn't work in only another thirty years or so we can wet oursleves in public with impunity, in a Little Britain stylee

For the lazy ones out there, there are apparantly electronic ones out there that you put a little prob in and you adjust the electronic sensor to what suits you like that ab toners. Sounds easier than the cones too me. I know of the cleo one but it is real expensive