Practicing pelvic floor exercise …
That’s a NO, NO, NO, Screaming NO!
- Your baby’s head is the size of a grapefruit.
- Tighten up ‘down there’ now.
- Do you think it’s easier or harder for that grapefruit to come out of you ‘down there’ when you are ‘tight”?
- So, what to do? Use PFE until 24 weeks then learn to ‘open up’ your pelvis for The Birth
- After the birth, then use your PFE to recover
- Pelvic Floor Exercises are COUNTER PRODUCTIVE to letting your grapefruit sized baby out of your body.
How did BirthingBetter mothers and fathers discover that Pelvic Floor tightening exercises were directly counter-productive to the activity of getting a big object out of our bodies? It’s simple … experience!
Pelvic Floor exercises are BRILLIANT …. done up until 24 weeks of pregnancy and after birth for the rest of your life. Pelvic Floor exercises are NOT appropriate to directly preparing your body to give birth … instead OPEN UP
You are part of this exciting change to a new societal message:
- LEARN SKILLS TO PREPARE YOUR BODY TO DO THE ACTIVITY OF BIRTHING THIS BIG OBJECT … LEARN TO OPEN UP!
- LEARN BIRTH AND COACHING SKILLS TO WORK THROUGH THE ACTIVITY OF BIRTHING THIS BIG OBJECT .. learn to cope, manage, work through, deal with, handle, stay on top of and feel in control no matter how your birth unfolds.