Sally Maconochie faced a terrible choice when her preschooler son bolted across a busy car park: potentially trigger the prolapse of her pelvic organs, or risk the worst.
When her then-three-year-old son bolted, mid-tantrum in a busy Bunnings car park, Sally Maconochie faced a terrible choice.
Like Maconochie, Gargett suffered a levator avulsion – where the pelvic floor muscle tears off the pubic bone – while giving birth as a young woman. “Forty per cent of women will experience it at one time or another … the cause is birth injury from having a vaginal birth; it’s quite staggering to think about it being just ignored, but that’s exactly what happens,” she says.Gargett and her Hudson Research Institute of Medical Research colleague, Dr Shayanti Mukhergee, have recently published papers on their work blending 3D-printed degradable mesh with endometrial stem cells , which have extraordinary regenerative properties.
“These are deeply personal and intimate topics; there is a sense of shame and devastation that their body has let them down,” says Rosamilia.
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