An honest guide to empower you and support your pelvic health throughout your life, as well as your motherhood journey.

This book takes women on a journey to understand their pelvic health from childhood to their older days. It will discuss the taboo topics everyone wants to understand more about and empower women to help themselves with practical advice.

Pelvic health-functioning impacts a huge range of physiological functions and contributes a significant part to our overall well-being – from sex and mobility, to bladder and bowel control. It is something we should be educated on from pre-natal, all the way through to post-menopause.

Many factors can affect your pelvic floor, and vice versa. Stress can impact its function, which in turn can lead to IBS and UTIs, and it can have a negative impact on your sex life well before pregnancy or childbirth. The book is divided into three parts:

1. Getting to know your body and the function of the pelvic floor and the muscles surrounding it, explaining the link to the bladder and bowels, plus an overview of hormonal cycles in menstruating women;
2. How our pelvic health and function changes throughout our lives, with symptoms explained and practical tips, advice and exercises to protect and strengthen your pelvic health;
3. Pregnancy, Birth, and Beyond, including potentially debilitating conditions for which there is very little accessible help or information including diastasis recti, prolapse, and incontinence.

The book is practical throughout, with genuine help and solutions offered from lifestyle changes to exercises, and advice on what help is available, when to seek further professional help and how to ask for it. It provides much-needed solutions and hope for women in all stages of life through an expert and friendly tone.

Praise for Strong Foundations:

‘Clare is the voice of reason when it comes to pelvic health. She educates, empowers and offers practical tips to help women through all stages of their lives. As a currently pregnant woman, I shall be book marking the ‘Birth, bump and beyond’ chapter for the foreseeable!’ -Dr Sara Kayat

‘As a gynaecologist I thought I was well-informed when it came to pelvic floor health, but after 2 appointments with Clare I realised how much more there was to know! Now everyone can have access to Clare’s fantastic knowledge & skills through this book that I’ll be recommending it to all of my patients.’ -Dr Anita Mitra

‘Warm, wise and vitally important! Every woman should read this book. When you meet someone so passionate about the pelvic floor that they carry a plastic pelvis in their handbag, you sit up and listen. Within seconds of listening to Clare talk, I gained a whole new respect for my body. Clare is a woman on a mission […] she compassionately and skilfully ensures that women are equipped with the tools to nurture a chronically overlooked part of their body that (quite literally) holds them together. This book is a much needed handbook, a roadmap, a letter to our bodies. -Anna Mathur

‘Pelvic floor health is a little discussed subject. Most women have no idea of the importance until they experience symptoms, most commonly post natal or in the menopause. At this point they then may well be too embarrassed to seek help. This book should change that by empowering women with knowledge and understanding so that they can seek the help they need.’ -Dr Naomi Potter

‘A revolutionary book that changes your entire view on the female body.’ -Chessie King

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