Most people only become aware of the function and position of the cervix during pregnancy – because the cervix plays a decisive role here. It is a part of the cervix and consists of two ring-shaped openings. The inner cervix forms the transition between the uterus and the cervix; the outer cervix forms the transition between the cervix and the vagina. When a woman becomes pregnant, the cervix rises and hardens to protect the baby from germs before they enter. It is only when the baby is born that the cervix becomes soft and widens.
Exercises
Before and during pregnancy, it is difficult to strengthen the cervix specifically with exercises. However, researchers found that there is a neuromuscular connection between the cervix and the mouth (oral cavity in the face). The following exercise should therefore help to strengthen the cervix: Exercise Mouth: The pregnant woman lies relaxed on a soft surface in a supine position.
Now she turns her full attention to her mouth and first moves her lips without opening her mouth. Next, she should make broad grimaces and open and close her mouth again. She can also try to make her tongue wide and soft.
If she succeeds well in doing this, it can help her to make her cervix soft and wide during birth, so that the baby can pass the birth canal more easily. Pelvic floor training: Pelvic floor training also helps, because the pelvic floor gives support to all organs in the lower abdomen. Pregnant women who regularly do exercises for the pelvic floor already during pregnancy can feel their muscles better and can specifically relax and tense them.
However, no exercises should be done if you have a cervical weakness! . Exercise gymnastic ball: The pregnant woman sits upright on a gymnastic ball.
Her feet are firmly on the floor about hip-wide. Now the pregnant woman lets her pelvis circle 10 times in one direction. Afterwards, there is a change of direction.
After this exercise, the pregnant woman should try to alternately tilt her pelvis forward and backward. Both exercises help to strengthen the pelvic floor and increase the blood circulation in the abdomen. After the birth, a pelvic floor exercise is indispensable for all women, so that the cervix recedes.
Climbing stairs is the easiest way to train the pelvic floor. But the following exercises are also suitable: Exercise “Plucking grass”: The woman who has just given birth (woman in the period after childbirth) should alternately actively tense and relax her pelvic floor. The idea that she should pluck individual blades of grass from a meadow with her pelvic floor helps her to do this.
Exercise “Elevator”: The woman who has just given birth should imagine that her pelvic floor is an elevator. If she leaves it loose, it is on the first floor. If she tenses it a little (as if she has a slight urge to go to the toilet), the elevator is on the second floor. If she strains it even more, the elevator is on the second floor. After some practice, the woman who has recently given birth can also make “jumps”, i.e. she lets the elevator go from the first floor to the second floor and back, etc.
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