What’s wrong with feeling like you’re leaking after a normal delivery?

Feeling like your lower body is leaking after a normal delivery may be due to pelvic floor and vaginal laxity. Pelvic floor muscle exercises can be done after delivery to improve the symptoms. During pregnancy, the uterus enlarges significantly, and long-term pressure on the pelvic floor can lead to pelvic floor tissue laxity. In addition in the process of labor and delivery, the fetus is delivered vaginally will lead to extreme expansion of the vaginal wall, pelvic floor ligament relaxation, after delivery will lead to vaginal laxity. There is even a small percentage of pregnant women who can’t hold their urine after coughing and experience urine leakage. For this situation, reasonable rest should be taken after delivery and the pelvic floor should be repaired as soon as possible. Always feel like the lower body leakage after normal delivery usually can do more anal contraction exercise, or go to the hospital postpartum rehabilitation department to do pelvic floor muscle recovery, are able to restore the vaginal elasticity. Nowadays, the pelvic floor rehabilitation is usually started 42 days after delivery. If the vaginal laxity is serious, patients can use vaginal tightening surgery to repair the vaginal wall and the levator ani muscle, so that the vagina is tightened. The specific situation will depend on the doctor’s examination to clarify the degree of vaginal laxity and take different treatments.