I don’t think we can afford for me to see a pelvic floor physical therapist at this point, so I need to make a considerable effort to do the exercises the midwife had mentioned to me in our appointments. She’s big on oral/aural learning. I’m a big written learner. I can understand in the moment easily with aural learning, but I don’t retain the information well if I don’t write it down. And she tends to go fast. Until I mentioned that I need to write it down in order to remember it all, she just would roll through things quite quickly. It only would be when I asked about something at a later appointment, and she gave the answer again that I realized we had already discussed the point. I just hadn’t written it down, so I hadn’t retained it well enough.
So, I’m going off of orally-given exercises here, only vaguely remembering them off and on. I’ve got two for certain that she told me. Still working on possibly another three or so exercises she’d told to me at some point in the first six weeks postpartum.
I know the best idea for my body is to see the physical therapist, even just once. It just isn’t an option for us financially right now, so it doesn’t work for us. If doing the exercises I have already doesn’t prove helpful enough, then we can look to see how to shift finances – slash, hopefully, we will be in a much better financial situation at that point, if I end up needed the appointment – so that I can have the appointments. Plural because I have to get a referral first… some stuff is beyond stupid, and our medical system and insurance system seem to be two of the many stupid things in this world.
Anyway, let’s pray.
God, heal my pelvic floor and my vagina, please. Help me to grow strong again and well again. Heal our baby’s ailments and Brent her freedom from her gas struggles. Release all allergies from our systems. Make my husband and my baby and me well and whole, please, and keep us safe. Guide us clearly into our next step in Your will for our lives. In your name, I pray. Amen.
Post-a-day 2025
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