Your post-natal health

Barwon Health Physiotherapy offers online postnatal education sessions for women after birth. Much of the information covered in the education sessions is also available as a factsheet. Please click each hyperlink below to access these.

• Optimising recovery after birth
• How and why to strengthen your pelvic floor muscles 
• Emptying your bladder after birth
• Common aches and pains including pelvic and lower back pain
• Return to exercise after birth
• Return to intimacy
• Abdominal muscle stretching (DRAM)
• Scar line management

If you would like to attend a class, ask your midwife or health care provider to refer you to physiotherapy.