Your Vee-Jay Jay

If you labor and have a vaginal delivery, your baby has to come out your Vee-Jay Jay. This is also called the 'birth canal'. Unlike your pelvis which has 4 bones, your baby's birth canal is made up of soft tissue including muscles. You can feel those muscles by tightening up your rectum now. Also, pull the bones you sit on together. Doing so uses other muscles.

Start at 32 weeks pregnancy and spend 5 minutes/day massaging all the tissue and muscles inside to make space for an object the size of a grapefruit.

In this lesson, you'll receive one PDF

• Illustrations For Your Birth Canal: See all the illustrations of the muscles inside your Vee-Jay Jay. You don't need to know their names or where they are really. You just need to make everything in there soft and pliable.

You'll receive Mp3 audio: Prepare Your Birth Canal 

• Specific directions for your partner/other to do the birth canal massage on you. When your partner connects the baby in your belly to what they feel inside your Vee-Jay Jay, then they can help you cope as you work through the activity of opening up your body so your baby can come out. They feel 'change'. It's tactically obvious. Your birth professional is not the only one who should know you 'down there'. 
• Specific directions for you to do it on yourself. How important is this? VERY! You do not want your body or baby damaged during the 'pushing stage'.

Where am I?

Often when women labor they don't know 'what's going on' or 'what's happening'. This is just a phrase that indicates we haven't learned the skill to check ourselves when we feel the sensations have changed or not changed. The Internal Work will teach you how to prepare your Vee-Jay Jay AND give you the tool to simply check yourself so you feel the change.

When should I check myself?

• Check once a week in 36, 37 and 38 weeks
• Check every 3 days in weeks 38, 39 and 40

You're checking to feel for change as the top of your vagina (the lower part of your uterus) begins to thin out. You may not be able to feel your cervix at this point. Usually, the cervix 'migrates' closer to your pubic bone when labor starts.

What does 'change' feel like?

• The top of your vagina will, at first, feel mushy ... that's just what it feels like ... puffy soft tissue
• If you feel the cervix when the top is mushy, it will feel softish and about a 1/2 inch in length
• When your Braxton-Hicks contractions become stronger anytime from 32 weeks onward, at some point these contractions start to thin out the tissue.
• When the tissue has 'effaced' or thinned, it feels smoother or very smooth
• The cervix will get flattered to the top of the vagina and you might be able to feel it (migrated forward) and begun to dilate (able to stick your finger in or feel an arch which helps you determine how open)

You or your partner can check you. This is called the Asshole to the Brain reflex. You'll always know where you are because you'll feel changes or not and understand where your labor is, why it's progressing or why it's stalling.

Benefits of doing the internal work

• You don't want to push for hours and end up with more intervention because you're right down there.
• You DO want to recover rapidly after birth.
• You don't want to have negative life long problems: pain having sex, peeing when coughing, jumping, or running or laughing.
• You want to recover the elasticity of your Vee-Jay Jay you had prior to your birth