Hello, everyone, welcome back. Apparently, Dr. Boyd, we're talking about Qigong exercises today. Now, because you're going to deliver a large baby through your vagina, it's gonna seem large, large, because it's the biggest thing probably that you've ever accepted through your vagina. Basically, it's a bowling ball. Now, these bowling balls are different from person to person to person. But even a five pound bowling ball is pretty dramatic when you've got a vagina that's typically this size.
So because of this, urinary issues occur in the postpartum period. And most of these resolve over time, and today, we're going to talk about something that's going to help you resolve these issues in a faster manner. And that's called a key goal exercise. Now, most women when they deliver, especially if they've had a difficult vaginal delivery With a big baby or forceps or vacuum, those women will have increased risk for having loss of urine. That's called stress incontinence after their delivery. So when you call for your sneeze or you grunt or you laugh and you lose urine, that's called stress incontinence.
Stress incontinence is more common. After you have a baby. You've never had it in your life. You have first time baby and it's a big baby and a difficult delivery, your increased risk for having stress and content keggle exercise how do you do that? So your brain tells the muscles around the urethra, that your pee tube and your bladder to contract. There, it's a muscular type of organ, there's actually five of them called your Paranal muscles.
These can be injured during the delivery process, so we need to rebuild those. Okay, and how do you rebuild them keggle exercise. So you wake up in the morning, you go Sit on the pot, you start urinary flow, then your brain does your pineal muscles to stop the flow just like that, completely to a standstill, then you relax, start the pain process again. And then you do the same thing. Brian tells you to stop your urinary flow, you do that process 10 times. So it's like 10 reps.
When you're lifting weights, you do that in the morning. You do that in the afternoon, and you do that at nighttime. You're going to do this for multiple weeks, even multiple months. Now, over time, your brain will understand when you tell it to contract those parallel muscles that you don't have to necessarily be on the pot. So after you've done this seven or eight days or 10 days or 14 days, your brain will be able to identify which muscles need to be contracted and descend the signal there. And at that point, you'd be sitting on your couch watching TV driving down the road.
And do a Kegel exercise. Kegel exercises are great as you get older and have more babies and more babies and more babies. More and more women have stress incontinence, I mentioned that typically goes away after delivery. But if you have more babies, oftentimes it can come back and over time, it can be a dramatic problem. So whether you're delivery now or later in life, these Qigong exercises are very, very important. So no woman likes to lose urine.
These are ways that can help you to diminish that risk. I hope this was helpful.