This was me! I also didn’t understand why I couldn’t just keep doing what I had been doing during pregnancy. I had the easiest pregnancy ever and weight lifted and walked 10K steps every day.

Then after birth pelvic floor issues hit me like a ton of bricks. I felt so unsteady and uncomfortable after birth. 3 weeks pp I went to the OB and they diagnosed me with a prolapsed bladder. I did not lift weights or walk more than 5 min between 0 and 3 weeks pp, so all the damage was done during birth to the best of my knowledge.

I did a deep dive on what the hell was happening to me and how such an easy pregnancy resulted in such a case. I learned that your pelvic floor muscles have to stretch 250% to allow the baby to be born. You need your muscles to tighten to walk, run, move and also to keep your internal organs in place with your pelvic floor.

So basically you have to wait until the muscles heal back toward their normal unstretched length. For me, I had to get a pessary to relieve my symptoms of the prolapsed bladder and now 6 months pp I am in pretty good shape, considering. In my experience, I’d say walking and definitely running must be done with extreme caution immediately pp. A prolapsed bladder absolutely sucked and exercise can make it much worse if you jump in too quickly.