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Pelvic health during and after pregnancy

During pregnancy, your body goes through many changes to help you grow, carry and birth your baby. It can sometimes be difficult to know what normal changes are, and when you should seek help.

Our perinatal pelvic health service can support you if you have problems with your pelvic floor during pregnancy or up to one year after giving birth. Pelvic health issues include problems with:

Common issues

Please do not feel embarrassed to talk to us about your pelvic health problems. Research estimates that about:

  • 1 in 3 women experience urinary leakage 3 months after pregnancy
  • 1 in 5 women have accidental bowel leakage 1 year after pregnancy
  • 1 in 12 women report symptoms of pelvic organ prolapse (when 1 or more organs in the pelvis slip down from their normal position and bulge into the vagina)

We can offer treatment, advice and support for all these conditions.

About the team

Our team includes pelvic health physiotherapists and pelvic health midwives. We work closely with maternity and other health services including:

Education and workshops

Our perinatal pelvic health service also offers classes and workshops. We run a pelvic health workshop during pregnancy.

Find out more and book your place.

Further resources

Health information

This series has been translated into several different languages.

Pelvic floor exercises

Emotional support

  • The Birth Trauma Association supports parents who have experienced birth trauma.
  • The Healing Experience of Loss and Trauma Service is a specialist therapeutic service for women and birthing people who live in Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham or Southwark and who are experiencing emotional distress, or mental health difficulties following a perinatal loss.
  • The MASIC Foundation offers support to those who have suffered severe injuries during childbirth known as OASI (obstetric anal sphincter injuries).

Share your experience

Let us know how we’re doing. If you have had a baby with us since June 2022, please complete our survey to tell us how we are doing in supporting your pelvic health.

We’d also like to hear from you if you received care from the perinatal pelvic health service (physiotherapist or midwife) through virtual clinics, group therapy or individual appointments since June 2022.

The surveys are anonymous, and your participation is voluntary.

Contact details

  • Clinic hours: Monday to Thursday, 8.30am to 5.00pm
  • Email: [email protected]
  • Clinic: Suite 8, 3rd Floor, Golden Jubilee Wing, King’s College Hospital