For mommies who workout, has this ever happened to u?

It also happens to me, but not just when im working out, it happens all day throughout the day, so i have to wear a pantyliner all the time. ANNOYING. I have 2 kids, and it started in the end of my 1st pregnancy. I finally am heading in to see a Urologist to see if this situation can be reversed somehow. Your not the only one. Children ruin your body! lol

yes definitely do Kegal exercises they help that problem. I had the same problem after I had my baby but its a lot easier to do jumping jacks and whatnot now

FYI the easiest way I can to explain how to do Kegals is when your peeing flex those muscles and draw them up and make yourself stop. This is just to figure out what muscles to flex. Then you can do them whenever driving, eating dinner ,watching tv ect.

This tightens vaginal muscles as well and it helps after the stretching it takes during childbirth. (not sure if that sentence makes sense or not lol)

Yes kegel exercises are the key, try the older FIRM videos, they do a lot of kegel exercises. I have this problem when I sneeze or laugh to hard lol

Yep! Like everyone has says...time for Kegals.

Also, you may want to look into Ben Wa balls. They are weighted balls that you insert in the vagina and practice kegals with. They come with a set of two. You start with one until you get stronger and then you can insert two, eventually. Keep one in for maybe 5 or 10 min at first and focus on keeping it inside as you do your daily activities. It will slip out at first until you strength those muscles! Some women have such strong muscles that they are able to keep two balls in all day and go about their business with work, laundry, etc!

The Ben Wa balls will also do wonders for your sex life/orgasms for obvious reasons. You can find them at sex stores, online, and even amazon (that's where I got mine! lol).

In the meantime, put a pantiliner so you don't go to ruining all your clothing during workouts!

When a woman gives birth vaginally (and sometimes just because of pregnancy), often the neck of the bladder gets stretched such that it leaks. I used to leak every time I jumped, ran, etc. Probably why I didn't exercise after having my kids.

Kegels help, but don't remedy the problem for all women. Other non-surgical options include a pessary (plastic ovalish thing inserted in the vagina to put pressure on the bladder neck and keep it closed), which I guess I should have considered before I was done having kids, because I missed a lot of bounce house fun for fear of peeing.

Once we were done having babies, I went to the uro-gynecologist and elected to have a bladder neck suspension procedure. It's an outpatient operation, they made 3 little incisions, inserted a mesh sling, and screwed it into the pelvic bone with titanium screws. Over time, tissue grows over the sling and there sin't enough metal in the screws to raise issues at airport security or anything like that.

The procedure was immediately effective at stopping the leaks, BUT...I couldn't lift anything over 10lbs for six weeks. That's a little more than a gallon of milk. No lifting kids into the car, changing table, etc.

The pain was minimal -- like a really good inner thigh workout. I was at the hospital all of 5 hours, and away from work just two days. I probably could have gone to work the next day.

its natures way of telling us as women we don't suffer enough!! i was fine after having a section with my first, but had to have an episiotomy with my daughter, plus she was forceps, now I daren't wait to long after feeing that first 'urge' that i need to pee and she's almost 2 1/2!!! i started doing my 'muscle' exercises as soon as the swelling went down and it is better but still not how I was before I had her ;0(

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This happens to most people - either as a result of birthing and / or getting older. Kegels help. Exercise generally helps. I had trouble for about two years postnatally, but found that being more active and doing regular kegels did sort it out.

If you're very concerned you can get (I kid you not) 'weights' to put up inside that you use to make the kegels more effective. I haven't used these myself, but have friends who have and who swore by them.

I have the same problem and I will go pee immediately before beginning the workout and I STILL pee when I do jumping jacks. Unfortunately this happened when I was at my first day of tae kwon do class and we had to do like 100 jumping jacks and by the time we finished my pants were very obviously wet. I never went back to that class after that.

Kegals can help but surgery is the only option thats permanent. Ask your dr.