Are Kegel Exercises Helpful For Urinary Incontinence After Childbirth?

After giving birth,your vaginal canal and pelvic floor muscles get pretty beat up.Urinary leaking or incontinence,painful abrasions,and constipation,and other pelvic floor damage are all a big factor in developing postpartum depression.

According to survery,one in 7 women have suffered from urinary urgency or urinary incontinence,you are definitely not alone.But most women know little about urinary incontinence,including the reason,signs and so on.

Now,let’s walk into urinary incontinence after childbirth together.

（The picture shows a pregnant woman and her husband）

What is urinary incontinence?

Uncontrollable urinary leakage,or“the spritz”as it’s sometimes called in commercials for certain hygienic pads,is what happens when a little bit of urine involuntarily spurts out.

While the increase of baby’s weight，the effect of hormones during childbirth could make the pelvic floor muscles looser,so you may find you can’t help peeing when you laugh or sneeze.

What are the signs and symptoms of postpartum incontinence?

There are two types of urinary incontinence:stress and urge.

If you tend to leak urine when you laugh,sneeze,cough,run,jump,or lift something,then that’s stress incontinence.

When you’re pregnant,your body makes special birth hormones that make your tissues and joints more elastic for delivery.That,combined with the weight of a baby,weakens the strength of your pelvic floor muscles allowing urine to leak.

If you find yourself rushing to the bathroom several times per hour even though your bladder is nearly empty,then you’re experiencing urge incontinence.

Are Kegel exercises helpful for postpartum incontinence?

To some degree,performing Kegel exercises indeed could relieve urinary incontinence,but few women can stick to it.Besides,if you have severe bladder leakage,you may not be able to resolve it on your own with Kegels–although you could still greatly improve your situation through the exercises.

Then you may need medical treatment-Posterior Vaginoplasty,which is a famous and patented procedure of Korean Best-Skilled OBGYN clinic.It can not only repair the damaged pelvic floor muscles as well as push the drooping uterus back to the original position.

And the director Yoon Ho-Joo will operate each procedure by himself.So if you suffer from severe bladder leakage,you’d better seek treatment as early as possible.

Editor:Catherine

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