Bladder & Bowel Control — Postpartum
Pregnancy and birth ask an enormous amount of the pelvic floor, and it’s completely normal for things to feel different afterward — leaking when you laugh or lift the baby, a sense of heaviness or pressure, or simply not feeling like yourself down there. None of that means something is wrong with you, and none of it is something you have to just accept. Many patients find real, supportive recovery once the pelvic floor is helped along properly.
Pelvic floor strengthening
Where it is clinically appropriate, the EMSELLA® chair does the muscle work. You sit fully clothed for 28 minutes.
Health teaching
We work through the four things that drive bladder control: hydration, bladder irritants, pelvic floor muscle strength, and bladder retraining.
Strengthening does the muscle work. The teaching is what helps you understand and support your bladder health beyond the treatment sessions.
What happens first: a Pelvic Floor Consultation with Shannon Lapointe, a Certified Continence Advisor. Not everyone needs treatment — and we will tell you if you don't.
What it is
During pregnancy and delivery the pelvic floor muscles and supporting tissues stretch and work hard. Afterward, that can show up as stress leakage, urgency, a feeling of heaviness or bulge, or reduced sensation and support. These are common recovery experiences — and they respond well to focused, gentle strengthening.
Who it affects
Some degree of pelvic floor change is extremely common after birth, whether vaginal or caesarean. Many people are told it will “just get better” and quietly wait — sometimes for years. Supporting recovery intentionally, when you’re ready, tends to help you feel more like yourself sooner.
How we help
We start with an unhurried assessment of where your recovery is, then build a supportive plan around it — always at your pace.
EMSELLA® — Pelvic Floor Strengthening
EMSELLA® prompts thousands of deep pelvic floor contractions per session while you sit fully clothed — a comfortable way to rebuild strength and coordination without floor exercises you have to fit around a newborn. Many patients find it helps with leaking and with that sense of support.
O-Shot® PRP
The O-Shot® uses your own platelet-rich plasma to support tissue quality and comfort. Alongside EMSELLA®, it can support both the muscular and tissue sides of postpartum recovery, including comfort and sensation.
Bladder and pelvic-floor care begins with a complimentary consultation with Shannon — so you understand what is happening and what would help before you decide anything.
Meet with Shannon for a complimentary continence and pelvic floor consultation. She will review your symptoms, relevant medical history, bladder or bowel concerns and contributing factors, explain how pelvic floor strengthening and health teaching may help, and discuss the most appropriate next steps.
An EMSELLA® experience may be included when clinically appropriate — the pelvic-floor treatment you sit on, fully clothed. Whether it suits your situation is Shannon’s clinical judgment, discussed at your consultation.
From there you choose the approach that fits — a physiotherapy-led program or our standard program — with pricing laid out plainly and Shannon guiding which is right for you.
This is more than access to a chair. Depending on what your consultation finds, your care may include clinical history review, continence education, bladder and bowel health teaching, pelvic floor strengthening, behavioural recommendations, and referral or medical follow-up where appropriate.
The bladder-leakage screener (ICIQ) and the Prolapse Screener help you gauge where things are — free, private, about two minutes each.
How We Actually Treat It
EMSELLA® is a useful tool and it does a specific job well — it strengthens the pelvic floor without you having to do the work perfectly on your own. But it is one part of continence care, not the whole of it, and a clinic that offers you only a chair is offering you an incomplete plan.
What proper continence care includes:
Health teaching and behavioural strategy
Often the highest-value part, and the part most often skipped: bladder retraining and timed voiding · urge-suppression technique · fluid strategy — how much, and when · caffeine, alcohol and bladder irritants · managing constipation, which loads the pelvic floor · correct pelvic-floor engagement, which many people are doing wrong without knowing it.
Pelvic-floor training
Assessment of what your pelvic floor is actually doing, then training it deliberately. Some people need strengthening; some need to learn to release. Treating the wrong one makes symptoms worse, which is why we assess rather than assume.
Technology where it helps
EMSELLA® and, where appropriate, other in-clinic treatment — used because your assessment indicated it, not by default.
Medical review and referral
Some symptoms need a physician’s work-up before anything else, and some need urology, gynaecology, urogynaecology or pelvic-floor physiotherapy. We will tell you plainly when that is the honest answer rather than treating around it.
Reassessment
Continence care is measurable, so we measure it. At the end of your active care there is a progress review comparing where you are against where you started — not a vague conversation about whether you feel better.
That review decides what happens next: results reached and care moves to maintenance; more improvement wanted and we plan further active care; or something is not adding up and we investigate or refer. If it did not work, we will say so.
Start with a Pelvic Floor Consultation with Shannon — no pressure, completely confidential, and entirely at your pace. An EMSELLA® experience may be included when clinically appropriate.
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