Breastfeeding can be physically demanding, particularly during the early weeks when your milk supply is establishing. Engorgement, breast inflammation and damaged or cracked nipples can make feeding painful and sometimes leave you unsure where to turn for help.

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Physiotherapy can form part of your breastfeeding support by helping to manage breast discomfort and swelling, unblocking milk ducts, providing guidance around appropriate movement and positioning, and using suitable treatment modalities to support tissue healing.

Where symptoms suggest mastitis or another condition requiring medical or lactation management, we can help guide you towards the appropriate care.

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We can help with:

• breast engorgement

• breast discomfort and inflammation

• blocked or narrowed ducts

• cracked nipples

• feeding-related pain

• supportive care during mastitis recovery

Pelvic Floor Recovery

Your pelvic floor changes throughout pregnancy and childbirth - and this applies whether you delivered vaginally or by Caesarean section. After birth, you may notice leaking, urgency, heaviness or simply feel that your pelvic floor isn't functioning as it did before.

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Postnatal physiotherapy can assess how your pelvic floor contracts, relaxes and works together with your breathing and abdominal muscles.

Treatment is individualised because pelvic floor recovery isn't always about simply doing more Kegels.

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We can help with:

• bladder leakage

• urinary urgency

• pelvic heaviness

• prolapse symptoms

• pelvic floor weakness or overactivity

• restoring pelvic floor coordination after childbirth

Abdominal Separation & Core Recovery

Your abdominal wall stretches to accommodate your growing baby, and some degree of separation between the abdominal muscles - known as diastasis recti - is common during and after pregnancy.

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Rather than focusing only on the size of the "gap", physiotherapy looks at how your abdominal wall functions during breathing, movement and everyday activities. We can then progressively rebuild strength and coordination between your abdominal muscles, pelvic floor and the rest of your body.

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We can help with:

• diastasis recti

• abdominal weakness

• abdominal doming

• reduced core control

• rebuilding abdominal strength after pregnancy

Caesarean & Birth-Related Scar Recovery

Whether you've had a Caesarean section, episiotomy or perineal tear you are prone to scar tissue, which can sometimes remain sensitive, tight or uncomfortable after the initial wound has healed.

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Physiotherapy can help restore comfortable movement and address scar and surrounding soft-tissue restrictions where appropriate.

Following Caesarean delivery, rehabilitation can also progressively restore abdominal strength and confidence with lifting, walking and everyday movement.

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We can help with:

• Caesarean scars

• abdominal discomfort, scar sensitivity or restriction

• episiotomy and perineal scar discomfort

• rebuilding movement and strength following delivery.

Back, Neck & Feeding-Related Pain

Looking after a baby can be surprisingly demanding on your body. Feeding, rocking, carrying, bending over a cot, lifting a car seat and spending hours looking down at your baby can contribute to pain even when you've never experienced these problems before.

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Physiotherapy can treat the painful area while also looking at the positions and repetitive movements contributing to your symptoms, helping you find more comfortable ways to feed, carry and care for your baby.

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We can help with:

• neck and shoulder pain

• upper and lower back pain

• wrist and hand pain

• muscle tension

• feeding-related discomfort

• pain associated with lifting or carrying your baby.