Inspire me: how many kegels do you do?

mollymurphy · April 2009

Despite my best efforts (and KimL22's reminders!) I keep forgetting to do my kegels... Is it just me?

MidwestTexan · April 2009

None

hisbabybear · April 2009

i always forget! My biggest fear is that I am going to massively tear too!

WaitingForMyMiracle · April 2009

Well, I sneeze alot. ALOT. And I don't sniss (unless my bladder is SO full). So everytime I sneeze and don't sniss, I think of all the girls here that DO and I think to myself, "I have strong kegel muscles," and then I do quite a few just for fun.

Stick out tongue

Ktindall · April 2009

I have said this before and I will say it again?nope I do not do them for the fact that I don?t think that I am doing them right.

blessed_wife · April 2009

None

surprisebaby4us2009 · April 2009

I do them when i see the word kegel... if im reading a book or on here and that is it really

mollymurphy · April 2009

KimL22:
Oddly enough, you just reminded me that I have to do the reminder soon.? I'm so out of it today.....

Go! Go! Your reminders are...well...pretty much the only time I remember to do them! ?

peachypear · April 2009

I do ten when Kim tells me to.

I used to not do any, but then I snissed once. Ewww...

jolis_petits_bijoux · April 2009

I only do them when I see the reminder on here. Embarrassed

Or, when DH reminds me - every couple of days or so. In our childbirth class, we got to view a birth video where the mother an episiotomy, and still managed to get 3rd degree tears. Of course it showed everything but the stitches, and DH cringed. Our instructor paused the video and said something like "This may not have been quite as bad if she remembered to do her Kegels!"

You would think I would remember a little better, but it didn't do much to inspire me... it did traumatize DH, though. Hahaha.

blendedfammama · April 2009

none

DarcyLongfellow · April 2009

I was doing zero, but then I started getting freaked out when a friend told me about her problems with incontenence after she had her daughter. Yuck.

So, I've started trying to do them at night when I brush my teeth. I use a sonicare, so it has a 2 minute timer. I try to do them the whole 2 minutes. It's not much, but I figure it's better than nothing.

Only pain is I feel like I can't do them unless I'm sitting down. So I have to sit down on the side of the tub to brush my teeth. Which makes me feel like a weakling pregnant lady!

jolis_petits_bijoux · April 2009

hisbabybear:
i always forget! My biggest fear is that I am going to massively tear too!

That's mine, too! It's what I fear the most about childbirth. I have interstitial cystitis, and in the words of my OB/urogynecologist, "the most sensitive urethra and bladder known to man." Indifferent