How to avoid urinary leakage after delivery.

During pregnancy, the weight of the uterus and the strech of the vagina during childbirth cause the tissues that make up the pelvic to relax. This weakening can lead to small urine leaks - quite normal in the weeks following birth - especially when laughing, coughing or straining. These problems are usually resolved spontaneously, but to avoid real incontinence (the ability to control movements of the bowels and bladder), it is strongly recommended to train your pelvic floor muscle or do abdominal rehabilitation.

Training also helps prevent prolapse, or organ descent, which can occur for years after childbirth. Sexual relations can also be altered by this muscle distension.

Is everyone concerned?

Yes, all women who have given birth should exercise their abdominal muscles. On the other hand, depending on the flexibility of their muscle, some will be able to do it alone.

To be sure is you can train your pelvic muscle alone, you have to consult your midwife or a doctor during the postnatal visit (six weeks after birth): the doctor or midwife will assess the tone of the pelvic bone and make the decision.

How do you train? :

My midwife adviced that the ideal way to train properly is to sit on the floor in front of a mirror.

Start by contracting the anus. You will notice that the area surrounding the latter, the vagina and the urethra, contracts and seems to move up towards the inside of the body.

The other way is to train is by holding in your pee.

That being said, there’s a difference between holding in your pee for too long (which is not healthy neither adviced) and holding in pee .

In this case, you hold in pee and try to sneeze, cough or do shwish sounds.

These practices can also function very well while pressed,

or just when you are about to pee, you can first pause and practice. The main goal is to be able to hold your pee longer and not releasing it during practise.

Hope this helps!

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