A gentle start to life
Your baby’s birth will be a small miracle involving emotions of
expectation, excitement, joy and fascination. It is also hard work! By
being pro-active prior to the birth you can ease your baby’s start to life
with the pelvic floor muscle exerciser EPI·NO Delphine and EPI·NO Delphine
Plus
Pre-birth perineal massaging alone certainly helps but is not enough to
prevent a high percentage of women experiencing perineal injury during
birth. Perineal injury can cause infection and tissue scars (sometimes
related to pain during sexual intercourse).
At a later stage, as a
result of pregnancy and childbirth, the possibility of incontinence and/or
vaginal prolapse can occur. (See ”Regeneration with EPI·NO Delphine Plus” – exercising the pelvic floor
muscles with
EPI-NO and the use of biofeedback).
Learning how
to do your pelvic floor exercises correctly is something that will benefit
you for the rest of your life.
The idea, which led to the
development of the EPI·NO , originates from
Africa where they gently insert a calabash/ gourd into the vagina to
stretch the pelvic floor muscles to facilitate a natural birth and reduce
the risk of perineal injury.
The German EPI-NO Trial (Schuchardt et al. 2000) measured Anxiety, Analgesic Use, Length of Second Stage Labour, Perineal Outcomes and Apgar Scores after 1 and 5 minutes. The Trial found that... “with daily EPI-NO training it is possible to reduce the anxiety of birth significantly. By reducing anxiety of birth it is also possible to shorten the second stage of labour as well as the analgesics requirements. By a slower, more gentle pre-expansion of vulva and vagina regulated by the woman herself, it has been possible to reduce injuries to the vulva as well as the vagina significantly.”
