Contact & consultation

Arranging an assessment

Outpatient appointments are booked through the hospital on the numbers below; international patients can ask for Michael Yu. Bring a note of when you gave birth, how you are feeding, whether your cycles have returned, and whether weight is still changing. If you have symptoms such as leaking, heaviness, a bulge or pain, say so when you book, because it changes which assessment you need first.

What a good assessment includes

Whether healing has been straightforward, what your weight and cycles are doing, how the abdominal wall behaves when you use it, whether the caesarean scar is comfortable and moving, and what your skin and hair have been doing since the birth. It should also say plainly what is still changing and should be left alone, because in this year that is often the largest part of the answer.

Asking about the plan

Ask what would have to be true before each proposed step made sense, and what would change if you waited six months. Ask how any plan fits around feeding, lifting a child and the sleep you are actually getting. Ask what the clinician would do if this were their own body in this year, and what they would leave alone. A clinician who answers that last question specifically is assessing you rather than presenting to you.

Before you commit

No decision needs to be made at the first appointment, and no course of sessions should be sold before an assessment is complete. Take the plan away, read it against the guides on this site, and come back with questions. A discount that expires, or pressure to start treatment today, is information about the clinic rather than about your body.