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Expert help from a specialist physiotherapist to help you improve your pelvic floor & abdominal suppo

Supported Mums is a website for postnatal mothers to help them look after their bodies. Amanda Savage is a specialist physiotherapist sharing helpful, practical advice about postnatal bladders, bowels and abdominals; you will find sound medical information; pelvic floor & core friendly exercises and videos and signposts to great resources.

08/07/2025

Congratulations to our Lauren!! Inspiring us all as she juggled life this last few months. Pelvic health physio & Pilates instructor by day … triathlon training by night! Completed the gruelling Croyde Ocean “Stunning but Savage” Olympic length course this weekend. Go Girl!

10/11/2024

Have Pilates mat, will travel. I taught the Thursday online course this week from a rather trendy apartment in Leeds. Check the funky wallpaper & the latest edgy hairstyle :)

I was in Leeds to do some filming with Kegel8 and also spent yesterday helping run an advanced physiotherapy training course - to teach pelvic health physiotherapists, like me, to size, fit & manage vaginal pessaries.

Improving prolapse management

Our professional body for Pelvic Health Physiotherapists (the POGP) is working with the RCN (nurses) & RCM (medics) to empower more access to vaginal pessaries for women with symptoms of prolapse. Symptoms like vaginal bulge, heaviness, leakage, urgency and difficulty with bowel opening. All the things that get in the way of exercising and having a nice life.

We want to enable specialist physiotherapists to support women with pessaries - giving excellent, consistent research-led advice on how they work, who is suitable & troubleshooting, as well as offering sizing and fitting in more places.

It was a long train journey home so I used the time to pull together my thoughts. First post up on my website today, is an explanation of the pesky word “pessary” and all the different types. Click the link in the bio to learn more in my new post…

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20/10/2024

Menopause books have been having babies! Wearing my 50-something-woman-with-a-life hat right on top of my pelvic health physio hat today I have divided them into 3 home made “categories”: coffee table, medical-led, and niche autobiography. Hope it helps you decide what you might “need” right now?

Awareness days/weeks/months have been proliferating too??

Breast Cancer & International Brain Tumour, resonate with us and many of you too. ADHD & Eye Injury months will have takers I am sure. Cyber Security I hope not.

On an upbeat note, after my casual research, I am now looking forward to Baking Week, Chocolate Week (you can do them together from 18th) and of course there is World Values Day, Apple Day, World Okapi Day & National Black Cat Day for your diary (you know who you are). As we have a pet gecko, we’ll be busy on 21st. Reptile Awareness Day,
obvs.

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30/08/2024

Pot Plants people. Pot plants. Just discovered our clinic ones gasping for water after only a few days away. Apologising to them nicely 🫣

16/04/2024

Team Hug & celebrations (involving cake, obvs). This week Maria Big 40 & Amanda back in the clinic. Woo Hoo!

14/02/2024

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11/02/2024

How do you feel about Valentine’s Day hype?
Whether you celebrate or not, I don’t think it is very helpful to have the commercially driven “how’s-the-relationships-part-of-your-life” in your face when you only went to get some eggs & milk from Co-op.
When you are busy with a newborn baby, pre-schooler, teenager, live at home midult....or you are pre-menopausal, menopausal, post-menopausal (see where I am going with this...) s*x can drop quite low on your agenda or quite possibly even appear on your “to do” list. If it isn’t even comfortable when you do find the moment, it is all too easy to lose the intimacy in your adult relationship.
Highly recommend Clio Wood’s book “Get Your Mojo Back” if you need to Deep Dive into this complex topic of how to be a mother and a lover. Especially the chapter written by her partner. You’re in this together.

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14/01/2024

Some people aren’t built for running (like me). Or have a good & valid reason they can’t run right now (like me and the last 3 people I spoke to - including a new mum, a dodgy pelvic floor, a pupil post abdominal surgery)

For some people running clearly is Their Thing. I get "runners envy”.Particularly in January when you see all the new resolutions folk out in trendy lycra effortlessly pacing the pavements, clearly enjoying listening to music, barely breaking a sweat, long legs pounding away – telling you how amazing they feel after a run.How it lifts their gloom and makes them feel energised.

But I don’t run. I plod. My legs are short, my lungs are clearly supposed to have been given to a budgie. I don’t get a runners “high” either. It’s more runners relief-that’s-over. Runners get stimulation of their cannaboid receptors.The same ones activated by smoking a bit of weed. Nope. Didn’t get that either. Dutifully tried it in my youth in Cape Town (out of UK, hoping confessing here doesn’t stump my chance at prime minister). Everyone else in the room clearly in some nice happy zone. Me. Nada. Not a thing. Just felt more and more….sensible. Wanted to give everyone a pep talk about their behaviour. Fell asleep in the back of the car & that was it. Terribly disappointing.

I tried C25K. Don't get me wrong - it's brilliant - lots of clinic clients have thrived using it.So well paced that you gain fitness & running legs, without injury, in no time at all. But not me. Made it to week 6 then got awfully bored. Tried podcasts, music etc. Laura would say “now you can walk” and (oops) I usually already was. These legs were clearly made for walking. The moment I stopped thinking about running my legs defaulted to their natural pace.

I used to worry about this lack of skill/motivation/concentration. My colleagues laughed that I never broke a sweat. But then we had a game of ultimate frisbee and I was just as fit as everyone else. My secret? Walking. The dog. To the shops. Whenever I can leave the car at home. For the pleasure.

And Good News, if we have a zombie apocalypse, I’m confident I'm going to be just fine with all that walking. You?? Write a caption...

22/09/2023

You know you’ve got a bestie when they take you to get a fresh new haircut. Feeling a bit lighter!

10/09/2023

The heat is messing with my head. I forgot Friday. Pot plants lovely people, pot plants!! 🌵🌵🪴🪴

We have 16 at clinic and 41 in my KITCHEN. Send back up. 🚒

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03/09/2023

It is normal to get up for one wee in the night (assuming sleeping for 6-8 hours). Annoying…but perfectly normal. Nicer if you don’t have to but some bodies just do.

Don’t be hard on the grandparents. Over the age of 60 it is normal to wee once or twice in the night. Hormone changes of aging affect the way the kidneys process urine.

If you do have a late night drink (party!)) then don’t berate your bladder for needing a 2am wee!

That first-morning wee…
If you don’t wake in the night most people wake up with a very full bladder. You will need to make getting to the toilet your priority on waking.

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29/08/2023

Say you’re about to go on a long car journey. Or about to have a swim or a shower. Or go to bed. Then it makes sense to get rid of even the 120ml so that you have a long run ahead of you.

BUT you need to justify to yourself why you didn’t just ignore the feeling.

Otherwise, it can quickly become a habit to have a wee every time you get a bit of sensation. That can be very disabling.

Did your mum always say have a wee before you went out?? 🤪
Do you say that to your kids??🙈

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