Helen says her diagnosis, confirmed by a doctor, brought confusion and fear as she was “hoping for an explanation, fix or some sense of urgency, instead I got a shrug of the shoulders.”<\/p>\n
The initial advice she was given was to not do anything that could make it worse such as running, jumping or lifting.<\/p>\n
“It kind of felt like the advice was don’t live your life,” she says.<\/p>\n
Perhaps more debilitating than the physical symptoms was the isolation Helen felt.<\/p>\n
“You live with it in embarrassment, silence, shame and isolation,” she explains. “Because you don’t talk about it, you think you’re the only person in the world it’s happened to.”<\/p>\n
Helen initially ventured onto Instagram to seek support. Finding other people on the social platform who were similarly anxious and confused and in some cases too embarrassed to seek help prompted her to eventually launch a podcast and write a book, Why mums don’t jump.<\/p>\n
Her goal was to create a platform for women to share stories and break the silence around pelvic health.<\/p>\n
“I was angry because no-one ever talked about it. So I decided I would.<\/p>\n
“I wanted to give women the knowledge that I’d found so hard to come by, and comfort in knowing they were not on their own.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Helen says her diagnosis, confirmed by a doctor, brought confusion and fear as she was “hoping for an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-219133","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}