PHTY306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Pelvic Floor, Blood Pressure, Stillbirth
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When women have a baby, it is really common for women to experience when they weak urine and cough. I"(cid:373) going to use this diagram and a model to explain to you what is happening. Imagine this is your tummy cut straight through. This is a model of your pelvis; it is a ring of bone which creates a circle. Inside of your pel(cid:448)is is a (cid:449)hole heap of thi(cid:374)gs. At the fro(cid:374)t is your . (cid:271)ladder, (cid:448)agi(cid:374)a, et(cid:272) a(cid:374)d here is your pelvis where your baby was growing. Pelvic floor muscles are the floor of your pelvis and runs from the bottom of the bone to your tail bone. Its role is to hold your urine in and bowel motion by squeezing. Because your baby was large, this muscle is not able to now grip around and control your ability to hold.
