What to do if you cough and leak urine after childbirth? You mainly need to exercise your buttocks muscles more

Many women always have urinary incontinence after giving birth. Sometimes they feel urinary incontinence when they are doing strenuous activities or coughing. This makes many female friends feel embarrassed, and it is also unhygienic for women's private parts over time. So what should you do if you cough and leak urine after giving birth? What are the treatment methods?

1. What is postpartum urinary incontinence?

Some female friends believe that postpartum urinary incontinence is caused by delivery, surgery, etc., and will be alleviated or completely eradicated after a period of time. However, postpartum urinary incontinence is a type of stress urinary incontinence. Even when you cough suddenly, you will leak urine. It is involuntary urination and is caused by postpartum muscle relaxation.

2. Exercise your buttocks muscles

Postpartum women can exercise their buttocks muscles more, such as doing some squats and other exercises to train the buttocks muscle groups. For specific training methods, you can search and refer to some related hip muscle training methods on the Internet.

3. Do ani-lifting exercises

The "ani lifting" exercise is very useful for postpartum urinary incontinence. Friends can perform this exercise in different occasions and at different time periods. The feeling of lifting the anus can control the muscles and ligaments of the urethra, and of course it can also have other very good effects.

4. Do the "hold urine" exercise

To be clear, the urine holding exercise mentioned here does not mean that you have to hold it in and not defecate. Instead, it means doing more urine holding exercises in daily life to contract the anus and urethra to produce the action of holding urine, rather than actually holding urine. This can be combined with ani exercises.

5. Take deep breaths with your abdomen to strengthen your pelvic muscles

When giving birth, the pelvic muscles become very relaxed, which causes the bladder and other organs in the pelvic cavity to fall. The urethra will also become dislocated, leading to urinary incontinence. Therefore, it is important to exercise the pelvic muscle groups. Friends can use massage, breathing, and light exercise to improve the strength of the muscles near the pelvis.

6. Surgery can also be a cure

Usually, postpartum urinary incontinence can be basically restored to normal after the above-mentioned exercise methods. However, some female friends’ conditions are more serious and they may not be able to return to normal, which greatly troubles their lives. In this case, they can only undergo some related surgical treatments.