Perineoplasty: The Real Deal

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[x]   Transcript: Right after you have a baby, everyone seems eager to offer their best advice for a new mom. But there's one thing they may not be so willing to discuss. After childbirth, many women feel laxity during sex, air trapping in the vagina during exercise, a terrible 'open all the time' feeling, a bizarre falling-out-the-bottom sensation when walking, or like they simply can't close their vagina no matter how many Kegel exercises they do. The medical term for this problem is perineal atrophy, because it happens when the perineum, the small wedge of cartilage that separates the vagina and the anus, is pulled and stretched by childbearing or aging. Of all types of prolapse defects, perineal thinning is often the most bothersome to the patient and the least acknowledged by doctors. So don't settle for a life sentence of laxity if your doctor tells you it's normal. And don't waste your time with exercises. Even if you Kegel 500 times a day, the connective tissue down there won't grow back together. Perineoplasty is truly the only way to restore the perineum to pre-baby thickness. If your doctor doesn't understand what you are telling him or her, find a urogynocologist-because we do.

[x]   Bio: Dr. Lauri Romanzi is a reconstructive pelvic surgeon, urogynecologist and clinical associate professor at Weill/Cornell New York Presbyterian Hosptial in New York City. Her urogynecologic research includes prolapse, incontinence, overactive bladder, Kegel fitness scoring, genital sensitivity nerve testing and fistula repair. Her 2009 book Plumbing and Renovation: If you have a uterus or know someone who does, this book is for you provides the lay public with a review on pelvic organ prolapse, urinary incontinence and pelvic floor fitness.

Dr. Romanzi has been a featured expert on the Today Show, The Dr. Oz Show and Good Morning America. Additional media credits include: NY Times, Fox 5, London Guardian, More Magazine, Redbook, Oprah Magazine, Telemundo, Radio Ritas, Dr. Radio, Cosmo Radio, London Times, Playboy Radio and Italian Playboy.

Dr. Romanzi advises women with pelvic floor disorders who cannot travel to New York through her blog (www.urogynics.org/blog – ask Dr R feature). In 2008 she opened PHIT, the world's first medical spa devoted to Kegel -focused feminine rejuvenation (www.theperfectphit.com ).

Dr. Romanzi's international work with Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Surgeons Over Seas and other international groups includes teaching and volunteer surgery for women suffering childbirth injury and war trauma in Niger, Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of Congo.