05/18/2026
When your OB or Midwife "clear" you, what does that mean? Do they tell you all the things you can start doing and how exactly to do them? Do they give you a plan for helping you to continue to recover? So you are just magically healed at 6 weeks but you weren't at 5 weeks? Do they check in after 6 weeks to make sure everything is going well?
Well most of you probably don't have the answer to these questions as they are not talked about in your 6 week postpartum appointment. They check to make sure your tear is mostly healed and you are on some type of birth control, you aren't clinically depressed and usually send you on your way. Being cleared in their opinion, is medically cleared. Not functionally.
Medically, this is the time frame that your uterus and cervix should be healed from birth and any tearing or incisions should also be healed medically. However, a lot of times this area isn't even medically healed yet.
So lets say you are medically healed at 6 weeks (about 40% of women actually are), are you fully functioning in all your core and PF muscles? Connective tissue? Ligament support? Joint alignment? Nervous system regulated? Far from it.
So why are we telling these women to start exercising without any plan or guide, start having s*x and exist as normal? We didn't even screen them for function? We only screened them medically right?
We are just setting you up for failure.
Your OB and Midwife don't have time to tell you what to do and how to do it and they aren't trained in doing so.
But thats where we come in! After your 6 week postpartum medical exam, then you schedule your PF and Core Initial Evaluation!
Here we can start helping you connect to your breath, focus on thoracic and hip mobility, how to engage and relax your PF, recruit your deep core properly, improve PF and core symptoms, focus on coordination for movement, BMs and eventually more exercise. We train your muscles how to re-connect and work properly to help you get back to your normal functioning self.
Don't skip this part! This may be one of the most important but challenging stages you will go through. Questions? Sign up for a FREE 15 minute video consult to learn more!