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Pregnancy Education Courses

Rouse Hill Women's Health provides the local Hills & Hawkesbury women education courses to empower and support them through all stages of their life. 

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Created and presented by Dr Nicole Leotta , Womens Health specialist and Doctor Catherine McKelvey - Hills and Hawkesbury Womens Health Physiotherapist . Both ladies specialise in women's health and have assisted hundreds of ladies prepare their body and minds for birth. 

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Our current courses assist Hills and Hawkesbury women and their support person to be educated and empowered to make informed decisions about their birth. Birthing & caring for their baby fearlessly, safely, and confidently. 

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Labour & Birth Course:

  • Provide you with the knowledge, confidence and tools needed

  • Understand cardinal movements of the body

  • Understand the hormones behind labour

  • Understand how the uterus contracts and baby descends to allow dialtion.

  • Understand how to prepare you body for birth, including:

  • Practice birth positions for different stages of labour

  • Pelvic floor and abdominal wall preparation

  • Taught how to push

  • Evidence based facts about assistance to assist in informed decision making.

  • Begin creating a birth decision tree.

  • Practice pain management techniques including birth skills, TENS and acupressure.

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Post Partum Mum & Bub Course:

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  • First 6weeks, what changes to expect with your body, challenges you may face and initial management strategies

  • Abdominal separation and recovery

  • Pelvic Floor Recovery

  • Breast feeding

  • Scar Tissue care: Episiotomy, tear or c-section

  • When to return to exercise & sexual intercourse

Bub

  • How to care for your baby

  • Feeding

  • Early baby challenges (colic, blocked tear duct, cradle cap)

  • Developmental milestones in first 6 weeks

  • Immunisations

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Other areas Rouse Hill Women's Health Physio treat includes:

  • Ante-natal Physiotherapy:

    • Pelvic girdle pain (SIJ dysfunction, Pubic Symphysis Pain,  low back pain & hip pain)​

    • Carpal tunnel syndrome

    • DeQuervains Tenosynovitis

    • Birth preparation: Perineal massage, birthing positions, pelvic floor exercises, activity & lifestyle modifications

  • Post Partum / Post Natal Physiotherapy

    • Abdominal separation including, live ultrasound​

    • Pelvic floor 

    • Return to sex

    • Return to exercise & sport

    • Incontinence

  • Dyspareunia (Painful Intercourse)

    • Burning sensations, stinging, friction, dryness, tightness, inability to have penetrative intercourse​

  • Bowel conditions, such as constipation & incontinence 

  • Dysmenorrhea (Menstrual cycle concerns) 

    • Pain, Endometriosis, PCOS, PCO

  • Incontinence (Urge, Stress & Over-activity)

  • Prolapse (cystocele, rectocele, uterine & vault prolapse) and pessary (fitting & management)

  • Post Surgical Intervention

    • Caesarean​

    • Hysterectomy

    • Tummy tuck

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If you have any questions, email: admin@womensphysio.com.au

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