My nurse told me about Keger exercises, explaining that it helps in delivery and afterwards to get back into shape. Has anyone every done these and it helped? (The exercise of tightening your vaginal muscles, as if to hold your urine.)
2007-06-21 07:29:33 · 10 answers · asked by Happy Girl 3 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Pregnancy
Absolutely! I did these and it helped in many areas. Doing these exercises will definitely help keep you in shape. They will help you to deliver the baby (quickly) and as most moms know, the baby has put a lot of pressure on your bladder during pregnancy and delivery. These exercises will help you to hold your pee. And lastly they help keep your muscles tight witch definitely helps during intercourse. Keep doing them the way the doctor instructed and after the baby is born ( 3months later) ask your partner if he feels a difference.
2007-06-21 07:38:05 · answer #1 · answered by nimachristina 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Check yourself before doing kegel exercises.
Place your finger in your vagina and squeeze around it, when you feel pressure around your finger you have located the correct muscle.
Kegel exercises serve to tone and strengthen the pubococcygeus or "PC" muscles which form the floor of the pelvis. The health of these muscles plays a vitally important role in sexual arousal and climax, as well as in other aspects of bodily functions. Now that you have located your PC muscles, you can begin kegel exercises while your bladder is completely empty.
First, try squeezing your PC muscles whils doing your basic kegel exercises as hard as you can for a count of three seconds. Then let them relax. To begin with kegel exercises, see how many times you can do this before the muscles feel tired.
Now figure out a suitable routine just as you would if you were trying to tone and strengthen a different muscle group by going to the gym every other day. For example, suppose you start by being able to do only five strong squeezes: try doing three sets of five once or twice a day for a week, and then try increasing your kegel exercises to three sets of eight strong squeezes.
If you work up to three sets of thirty or more strong squeezes, you are probably healthy enough for most purposes, and need only to maintain this level of fitness by doing these three sets of Kegel four times a week (instead of kegel exercises once or twice a day).
We also recommend that you experiment by varying the type and timing of the PC squeezing you do as you train these muscles: slow clenches, many quick flutters, and so on. This will make you more familiar with these muscles – notice also when your abdominal muscles or your anal muscles feel like they also want to join in the Kegel exercises are being done improperly.
Remember, you should try to separate from anal squeezing. If you are in doubt, go back and find your PC muscle while attempting to urinate.
2007-06-21 07:35:30 · answer #2 · answered by JJ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are many advantages to doing Kegel exercises, both during pregnancy and forever. They will reduce urinary incontinence in late pregnancy and postpartum. They will make second stage (pushing) shorter and easier. They will keep the muscle toned, preventing damage in second stage. They will make sex more enjoyable. They will help keep your organs where they belong-the kegel muscle, or pelvic floor muscle, holds everything up. There is no downside to these.
Laura
www.babystepsonline.net
2007-06-21 07:34:12 · answer #3 · answered by lauralynn75 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know if it helps as this is my first baby, but whenever i read about them, which is like once or twice per month, then i do them here and there. for some reason, it's a little harder than it sounds when the baby is sitting right there on your bladder, lol... but maybe they help, i'm sure they couldn't hurt :)
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2016-09-28 06:00:59 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, definitely, Kegel excercies help your you know get back into condition, it strengthens muscle. It's a skill, so it takes practice.
2007-06-21 07:32:06 · answer #6 · answered by rd03 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's Kegel.
Yes. It helps for everything: childbirth, sex, preventing incontinence, core strength stability...
2007-06-21 07:32:55 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i did these before delivery and after both kids and i do them to this day to keep "everything" nice and tight..yes they work.
2007-06-21 07:36:51 · answer #8 · answered by becca9892003 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I heard they also help you have more satisfying sex
2007-06-21 07:32:34 · answer #9 · answered by don't hate snowflake 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they are hard to do right, but yes, they are very effective.
2007-06-21 07:31:57 · answer #10 · answered by parental unit 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋