Great to touch on pelvic floor disorders, but many vaginal labor & delivery injuries are more severe and require much more than keigel exercises to improve incontinence. I hope you do a future episode about pelvic floor damage: fistulas, rectoceles, cystoceles, and endoceles. Bring on a urogynecologist or a urologist who specializes in surgical repairs to pelvic floor damage.

Good idea! I have been getting PT for pelvic floor dysfunction from 20 yrs of endometriosis and a “complete hysterectomy.”. However, considering how unresponsive they have been to some very grave concerns about misinformation on the show, I doubt that your post will even be read. Besides, due perhaps to the format of the show, or maybe due to the limitations of the physicians’ knowledge, it seems they only cover things that can be summed up in five minutes or less and not in a very comprehensive manner as you have pointed out. If you yourself require specialized care I encourage you to seek out a physician who has a lot of experience and keeps up with the latest techniques. Do some reseqarch of your own and go prepared with questions!

Good idea! I have been getting PT for pelvic floor dysfunction from 20 yrs of endometriosis and a “complete hysterectomy.”. However, considering how unresponsive they have been to some very grave concerns about misinformation on the show, I doubt that your post will even be read. Besides, due perhaps to the format of the show, or maybe due to the limitations of the physicians’ knowledge, it seems they only cover things that can be summed up in five minutes or less and not in a very comprehensive manner as you have pointed out. If you yourself require specialized care I encourage you to seek out a physician who has a lot of experience and keeps up with the latest techniques. Do some reseqarch of your own and go prepared with questions!

Actually, I was posting about a friend in mind who had serious pelvic floor damage after a vaginal delivery — her ob-gyn never diagnosed her, it took her sharing her story with a girlfriend who just happened to have had similar damage and was able to refer her to a urogynecologist who did repair surgery on her — it was successful, but she and I are both ticked off that no pregnancy books cover this and most of us women don’t even know that urogynecologists exist. This show needs to get a grip on its responsibility to fully educate the public and not just ‘drop a little knowledge’ here and there. maybe stop the format of many topics each episode and focus in depth on a serious health topic, with the right experts, so that we viewers actually learn something correct and complete. [Is anyone from the show actually reading our posts?]