Pregnant woman coughing and leaking urine

It is very common to experience coughing and urinary leakage during pregnancy, even when there are no coughing symptoms. This is because women’s bodies secrete a lot of progesterone during pregnancy, which can soften the pelvic floor muscles and nearby ligaments to facilitate the delivery of the fetus at full term, but it can also lead to a weakening of the muscle groups that control urination. As the fetus gradually increases in size, the uterus also compresses the bladder, which becomes more stressed and the muscles controlling the holding of urine become weaker, thus causing the pregnant woman to urinate frequently in the middle and late stages of pregnancy, and in severe cases, to leak urine when she coughs, or even when she does not cough. The vast majority of maternal stress incontinence can be recovered and is a transient problem that often improves effectively after delivery. In addition, patients are advised to perform regular and intense anal lifting exercises that require crossing the arms and legs and contracting the anus for 10-15 minutes at a time, and three times in the morning, midday and evening. Through the training of the pelvic floor muscle group anal lifting exercises, the strength of the bladder force, the strength of the pelvic floor muscles and the strength of the urethral sphincter can be effectively improved, thus achieving a better urinary control effect and even effectively avoiding postpartum incontinence.