Hey guys, welcome back to the preview lines alliance podcast it's Sarah and Whitney and we have a special

guest today Emily here with us in like Gilmore if you're in Birmingham you should

know about Thrive PT okay she is our go-to for pelvic

floor therapy and she is with us and she's going to educate us on pregnancy

period today guys so first off I didn't know this I'll admit this what the

pelvic floor was. Can you give us a little bit of like what it is and why we need

pelvic floor PT? Absolutely so the pelvic floor is a sling of muscles that sits at the base of our pelvis.

It has three actually four kind of basic functions we have bladder, bowel,

sexual and lymphatic drainage and it's also huge and

core stability. So it's a sling of muscles, they all attach to our pubis, our sip bones, and

our tail bones, and kind of serve all those functions. So they make the decision to keep things in and let

things out and are also hugely influential with our core. So essentially we have a superficial

pelvic floor layer that would be responsible for keeping things in.

So this is what would keep us continent, that would keep us from paying or

pooping ourselves, but also needs to stretch at the appropriate time.

So if we're having penetrative intercourse, these muscles would need to stretch at the appropriate time as well as releasing our

pebbles and platters when we choose to.

The deep layer is really responsible for kind of pelvic stability and core stability and it actually is the floor of the core.

So these are hugely influential muscles that are significantly impacted with pregnancy and postpartum

but also really important to note that we can have issues with these

without being pregnant or being postpartum they're just a part of the

mechanical system so because of the these are normal muscles and they contract

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