The Pelvic Floor Project
This podcast is for anyone with a pelvic floor. Pssst….. everyone has a pelvic floor. The pelvic floor is a group of muscles responsible for controlling our bodily functions. I refer to myself as a physiotherapist for embarrassing issues. I routinely help clients address symptoms like incontinence, prolapse, diastasis, pelvic pain, intimacy issues and the list goes on. A theme that stands out to me is how little we learn about our private parts and the muscles surrounding. This podcast is for you if you are interested in learning more about your body. Focused on the female, I cover topics pertinent to puberty, athletics, pregnancy, birth, postpartum recovery, menopause, surgery and so much more.I promise to share evidence based information through discussion with other health care experts in their field with the goal to showcase a holistic and empowering approach to taking care of the only body you will ever have. I hope you enjoy!
The Pelvic Floor Project
44. Pushing and the pelvic floor during vaginal birth with Anita Lambert
In this episode, I sit down with fellow physiotherapist Anita Lambert to discuss:
- How pelvic health physiotherapists can play a role in helping women prepare for birth
- The anatomy of birth
- Is there a right and wrong way to push?
- How do birth positions play a role?
- Different ways you may be coached to push
- Ways to feel prepared and empowered
- What the research says
- How to bring this topic up with your care provider
Anita Lambert is the owner of Holistic Health Physiotherapy, creator of the Bump to Birth Method and co-host of the To Birth & Beyond podcast.
She’s a mom of two, pelvic health physiotherapist with a focus on prenatal and postpartum care and one of the select few physiotherapists in Canada to complete physio doula training which blends orthopaedic physiotherapy expertise and birth doula support and now assists this course for other physiotherapists in Canada.
She’s passionate about helping you connect with your body including pelvic floor plus keep you active and comfortable during pregnancy while you prepare for birth and helping you navigate your postpartum recovery to return to exercise without pain or pelvic floor symptoms.
She hears daily from pregnancy and postpartum clients “why did no one tell me?” about what our body might experience – whether aches, pains, leaking pee with exercise or healing from a vaginal tear or caesarean birth.
No one can guarantee how your birth will go, however having worked with hundreds of pregnant and postpartum clients in her physiotherapy practice plus going through her own experiences, she’s seen how working together with your body (rather than ignoring it) benefits not only you in pregnancy but also during birth and postpartum recovery.
This is why she opened Holistic Health Physiotherapy and created the Bump to Birth Method.
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Podcast: To Birth and Beyond
Links mentioned in episode:
2017 Cochrane Review (Lemos et al) - Pushing/bearing down methods for the second stage of labour https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD009124.pub3/full?cookiesEnabled
Episode 33 - What is the best birth position
Episode 17- Discussing epidurals with an anesthesiologist
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