Your body postpartum

Your body goes through many changes during pregnancy, but after birth, your body is also transforming.

In this exercise, you will have the chance to interact with a body image. You can click on the diagram to explore the physical changes a woman may experience after giving birth.

Linked to each body part is a description of the challenges a woman might face, along with tips and strategies to manage concerns, and guidance on how to ask for help.

In this step, we are exploring:

• Urinary incontinence
• Faecal incontinence
• Pelvic Girdle Pain and Symphysis Pubis Dysfunction
• Mental health: anxiety and depression
• Sexual health
• Mastitis
• Wound healing and care postpartum
• Body changes immediately postpartum: blood loss after childbirth

Some of these challenges we will be looking at in greater detail throughout the course.

How to use this exercise

• Click on any of the circle icons to be taken to information about each health issue.
• Click next or prev on the bottom right hand side to move page
• Click on the large X on the top right hand side to close a page
• Use the back button on your browser to navigate back to the course.

If you cannot access this exercise, you can read a PDF version in the Downloads section below, a text only version for screenreaders, or a direct link for some mobile viewers.

Click on the exercise below to learn more about a women's body postpartum.

Please note, by clicking 'Launch' you will be taken to a page containing content provided by a third party website.