Holding the Ball: How I survived pelvic organ prolapse - without surgery!

Please rescue your child's first nurturer and home!! I fervently BEG every woman to read and do Julia's reccomendations BEFORE your womb sinks and drowns dragging with it, your bladder, and vagina...

Easy read and very informative. If you are on the journey of prolapse this will help you to understand what is happening and lead you to getting help.

It was good to know what worked for her.

This is an excellent resource for pelvic organ prolapse. Having recently had surgery for a dropped bladder I wish I had found this book first. There is so much information and helpful.

Detailed info related to pelvic exercise, yoga movements, walking, and living in general with prolapse. Beyond any info I have read before.

I found this book very helpful and informative and encouraging. It led me to other useful resources. I am grateful to the author. I am biased, I admit, in favor of her non-surgical approach. From my reading to date, it does not appear that the surgical alternatives are all that reliable and they can cause damage.

Didn't help me at all. I wasn't looking to read someone else's story. I was looking for solutions. I was very disappointed with the book.I found a book by someone else that was e

After reading some of this book I am already amused by the author. She definitely has emotional issues with her condition and finds aging hard to accept. I agree with her that women do not talk about prolapses but disagree with her about the use of correct terms for bodily parts! Perhaps that is what happens in the U.K. I have never heard her terms used in the U.S. She also seems to be unable to use the words bowel movement and resorts to the word poo a lot! It is informative to a point but I have so many issues with the author's attitude that she makes me want to laugh at times. This is not meant to be a humorous book.

I was pretty devastated hearing about any level of prolapse and thinking of surgery. It was great to hear about non surgical options and the tips are really helpful. A strong applause for thr author and all the resources created to support women during this devastating life change.

Every reader will gain something different from 'Holding the Ball'. For me, a good friend discovered new strengths when suddenly faced with an uncomfortable truth. Julia's slow and quietly determined journey back to normality after suffering a pelvic organ prolapse (POP) is a moving story. Her unwavering desire to manage her condition by physiotherapy rather than surgery meant hours of research, resulting in her acquiring a thorough understanding of the condition. In her book, she explains POP thoughtfully and clearly, providing plenty of information that offers help, as well as hope, to women navigating their way along a similar route. Equally importantly, Julia highlights new daily habits that all women can easily adopt now, to help avoid a similar POP outcome.Julia has condensed all her experiences into this accessible book and into her one-stop-shop website 'WomensBits'. I came away with a conviction that we should be teaching our young women pelvic floor exercises at an early age, and not waiting until their lives become more complicated by pregnancy, babies and young children. Perhaps, as a society, we could consider incorporating these discrete pelvic floor exercises into the existing national school curriculum – possibly within Personal, Social, Health and Economic education.

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I thought this book was a great read if you have any signs of a prolapse. Its a frank and honest view from a lady who is a fellow sufferer like me. Her words are comforting and informative. She gives some great advice (although she's not medically trained) and pointed me in the right direction. Sadly there seems to be no actual cure for POP, I'm told by a doctor that when you go down the surgery route its usually just a temporary fix and happens again, this I know has happened to many ladies. This lady recommends a good pelvic floor physio to go down the natural, 'prevent from getting worse' route, which I definitely agree with. It's scary when it happens to you, but somehow this lady made me feel I wasn't alone, and that there is hope for all us POP sufferers out there. Worth reading!

This book uses simple, easy to understand language to tell the author's story of her journey with organ prolapse. Each chapter has a quick review and highlights the messages of the chapter. As with everything medical, understanding grows over time and what was true for the author, or believed to be true, may no longer be so. Please look further.