Your Midwife will have stressed the importance of pelvic floor exercises during your pregnancy, but these exercises are important throughout life, not just in pregnancy and after delivery. When done properly and regularly, pelvic floor muscles will improve the strength of the pelvic floor.
Strong pelvic floor muscles help you to:
- Have an easier birth
- Relieve constipation
- Help prevent the embarrassment of passing urine when you laugh or cough
- Improve your sex life
Antenatal pelvic floor exercises - patient information leaflet
Produced by Mandy Kingston, August 2010.
Revised October 2011, August 2013, June 2014, February 2019, May 2020, June 2021, May 2023.
Revision due May 2025. Version:8.0
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