‘At 29, I realised nobody had ever taught me how my pelvic floor actually works’

I knew how contraception worked. I knew what a Pap smear was. I knew, roughly, where my uterus sat. But at 29, as a woman facing health issues while living alone and working in a big city, I couldn’t have pointed to my pelvic floor, let alone explained what it did.I didn’t know it helped me urinate, have bowel movements, or hold my organs in place. Like a lot of women, I only started learning about it when something felt off in my own body: a sudden urgency to reach a bathroom. I went looking for answers about a symptom. What I found was an entire system of the body that no one had ever mentioned to me, not in school, not in a gynaecologist’s office, not in the endless stream of ‘women’s health’ content I’d consumed over the years.DISCLAIMER: This article is based on information from the p