Pelvic floor exercise

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Hiya everyone
I'm currently 29 weeks pregnant with my first and went to a pregnancy exercise class recently where they said we should all be doing our pelvic floors daily !
I hadn't even thought about them before this to be honest! Let alone do them daily!
I've started now.- but I'm wondering if its too late?
Did you do yours all the way through? If at all!
Did those of you that have done them noticed that your bits have gone back to normal more quickly?
I'm paranoid I'm going to get a prolapse now!!!

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I've give through patches of doing them regularly (ish) and then other times ive completely forgotten about them. I'm now on mat leave at 32 weeks and have downloaded the nhs squeezy app which is helping me fo them regularly again. I'm carrying two so only have 5-6 weeks to do them. It might be too late but I figure at least I'm doing something now and if I do have problems afterwards I'm at least getting the practise in now (my midwife told me initially all women should fo pelvic floor for life and I'm sure most people don't so I wouldn't worry at only starting mow).

Ah thanks for replying! I know I'm always going to forget about doing them too! They're weird I don't like doing them!
I wonder if other women do do them regularly and that it actually works!

The app is really helpful as a reminder... And for making me realise how tired my pelvic floor muscles get just going basic exercises! I've set it to five times a day and holding only fir five seconds because I can't hold it longer than that. I'm hoping I'll get better and closer to the ten seconds I'm meant to be holding it for

Read this very interesting article. It's basically saying you shouldn't do pelvic floor exercises without also strengthening your glutes as it can actually cause incontinence
breakingmuscle.com/womens-fitness/stop-doing-kegels-real-pelvic-floor-advice-women-and-men

I'd recommend pregnancy Pilates as that involves a lot of pelvic floor strengthening along with working on your glutes and other areas. (I'm no expert, just read a bit about it and have done Pilates in the past )

I go to yoga and the instructor advised doing 2 sets of ten twice a day. Have a trigger for them, brushing your teeth, making a cuppa, during tv adverts etc

I've got an app on my phone and do them twice a day. Did it all through pregnancy and since birth (8 weeks on). Not had any issues with bladder after both births.

I do them all the time and haven't had any continence issues either during or after pregnancy. Good for your sex life too!