Integrative Spine & Pelvic Health

Mummy tummy, leaking urine and pain with s3x are COMMoN but not NOrMAL after having a baby. 🤰 AND you deserve hands on expert care with a postpartum pelvic floor physical therapist. Take care of yourself mama.

Peace and pelvic healing, Dr. Lauren

If you cross your legs every time you sneeze… your pelvic floor is telling you something. 👀

Next time you sneeze, pay attention to what your body does.

Do you hold your breath? Cross your legs? Squeeze everything as hard as you can? Brace your abs and hope for the best?

A lot of women have developed these little “protective strategies” to try to prevent leaking.

But here’s the problem: bracing harder isn’t always the answer.

When you hold your breath and over-brace, you can create even more pressure for your bladder and pelvic floor to manage—right when a sneeze is already causing a sudden spike in pressure.

Your pelvic floor is designed to respond reflexively to coughing, sneezing, laughing, jumping and other changes in pressure.

Sometimes pelvic floor rehab isn’t about learning to squeeze harder. It’s about retraining your breath, core and pelvic floor to coordinate automatically again.

Because your pelvic floor shouldn’t have to go into emergency mode every time you hear…

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Painful periods deserve more than “just deal with it.” We can assess possible contributors such as vitamin D and magnesium status, hydration, nutrition, pelvic-floor tension, stress regulation and bowel health—while also screening for conditions such as endometriosis, adenomyosis and fibroids.

The goal isn’t to blame one deficiency; it’s to understand the whole picture.

Pregnant? 🤰 Your pelvic floor doesn’t just need to know how to squeeze… it needs to know how to LET GO, too.

We’ve spent years telling pregnant women to “do your Kegels” — but birth prep is about so much more than making your pelvic floor stronger.

Your pelvic floor needs to be able to:
✨ Lengthen and relax
✨ Coordinate with your breath
✨ Move with your hips and pelvis
✨ Manage pressure
✨ And yes… contract AND let go

That’s why in Birth Prep Yoga, we work on positions and movements that create space through the hips and pelvis while practicing breath + pelvic floor relaxation.

Because the goal isn’t a pelvic floor that’s tight enough to win an award. 🏆😂

It’s a pelvic floor that knows what to do AND when to do it.

Save this for your third trimester 🤍 and send it to a pregnant friend who’s still been told to “just do Kegels.”

In Baton Rouge? Prep your Pelvis workshop and link for birth prep exercises in bio.