The Healthy Pelvis Project/Postpartum Essentials: Heal from your Pelvic Floor to your Core

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Postpartum Essentials: Heal from your Pelvic Floor to your Core

Get the whole package: stop leaking, nix hemorrhoids, heal your abdominal separation, fix your back pain, have pain free sex and more!

Contents

Welcome

Welcome to Postpartum Essentials by The Healthy Pelvis Project
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Our Mission Statement
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How to Navigate this Course

How to Navigate this Course
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The First 48 Hours After Labor and Delivery

Now that the bun is out of the oven. Let’s learn how to heal that oven. This section is specifically designed to help you manage the first 48 hours after labor and delivery. Our goal with this section is to reduce the fear of the unknown and demystify the first 48 hours after baby so you are prepared with realistic advice that we feel every birthing person should know but unfortunately is often only learned after the fact. We hope this helps you feel prepared and empowered .

Whether you’ve had a cesarean or vaginal birth, you will likely feel pretty sore. One may even say it feels like everything hurts. Let’s break it down so those first 48 hours are less painful and more comfortable. 


Introduction to The First 48 Hours After Labor and Delivery
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Tips to Help you Move, Pee, Poo and Feed your Baby
Handout: Tips to Help you Move, Pee, Poo and Feed your Baby
Tips to Manage Bleeding and Pain
Handout: Bleeding, Red Flags, and Perineum Care
Handout: Diaphragmatic Breathing
Handout: First 48 Product List

Surviving and Thriving in the First 6 Weeks Postpartum

Learn the essential ways to care for your body and your infant. Start the healing process off right.
Introduction to the Fourth Trimester
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Hormones, Swelling, Sleep, & Asking for Help
Handout: Help Asking for Help
Care for Down There
Reconnecting to Your Pelvic Floor & Exercise
Handout: First 6 Weeks Product List

The Mysterious Pelvic Floor

Introduction to Pelvic Floor 101
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Pelvic Floor 101 & Kegels
Handout: Pelvic Floor 101 Strengthening
Handout: How to Relax Your Pelvic Floor

Bladder Health: To Pee or not to Pee

Introduction to Postpartum Bladder Recovery
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Mind Over Bladder
Handout: How to Recover Your Bladder Health
Bladder Diary

Bowels: You Are What You Poop

Introduction to Your Best Bowel Movement Ever
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Healthy Bowels for the Win
Handout: How to Achieve Bowel Health
Handout: Hemorrhoid Treatments

Love Your Body (Mechanics) and Posture

Introduction to Body Mechanics
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Body Mechanics: We Love The Way You Move!
Introduction to Posture
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Exercises to Help With Your Posture and Strength
Handout: Posture Reset
Handout: Exercises to Help you with your Posture and Strength

Sex After Baby

Introduction to Sex After Having a Baby
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Pain Free and Pleasurable Sex: How To Guide
Handout: Tips for Better Sex After Baby
Handout: Our Favorite Lubricants

Scars

We implore you from the bottom of our physical therapist hearts not to skip this section.
Introduction to Scar Massage
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Scar Massage
Handout: How to Massage Your Scars

Back Pain

Introduction to Back Pain
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Back Pain: Why Does it Happen and How to Fix it
Exercises To Heal Your Back Pain
Handout: Low Back Pain Exercises

Restore Your Core

Introduction to the Core
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What is the Core?
Diastasis Rectis Abdominis (DRA)
Handout: DRA Assessment and Treatment
The Beginnings: Pelvic Brace
Core Foundations A Day
Handout: Core Foundations A Day
Core Foundations B Day
Handout: Core Foundations B Day
Intermediate Core A Day
Handout: Intermediate Core A Day
Intermediate Core B Day
Handout: Intermediate Core B Day
Intermediate Core Bonus Workout
Handout:Intermediate Core Bonus
Advanced Core A Day
Handout: Advanced Core A Day
Advanced Core B Day
Handout: Advanced Core B Day

What the Heck is This?

This section covers all the weird and unexpected things that can happen to your private parts postpartum.
Introduction to What the Heck is This?!
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Vulvar Varicosities
Handout: Vulvar Varicosities Treatment
Pelvic Organ Prolapse
Handout: Pelvic Organ Prolapse Management
Tailbone Pain
Handout: Tail Bone Pain Treatment
Periods After Baby
Vaginal Hematomas
What the Heck is This Product List

Conclusion

You Made It!

Disclaimer


All activities, services, and programs offered on this site are educational and self-directed in nature.  The suggestions, exercises and recommendations do not replace seeing a physician or physical therapist for an in-person examination and/or treatment.      
By performing any of these recommendations, you assume full responsibility, during and after participation for your choice to use or apply, at your own risk, any portion of the information or instruction you receive. 
Part of the risk involved in undertaking any activity or program is relative to your own state of health or wellness and to the awareness, care, and skill with which you conduct yourself in that activity or exercise. Your choice to participate in any activity or exercise brings with it your assumption of those risks of results stemming from this choice of fitness, health, awareness, care, and skill that you possess and use.


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