Running to the Bathroom
November 8, 2006 by kate baggott
Filed under Health
Pregnant women are used to getting up at all hours to pee.
For some women, that sensation doesn’t go away right after birth. You have to re-train those muscles for bladder control. Obviously, we all know about kegels, but that’s just the beginning of a whole re-training process.
The accurately, if poorly titled, article Take Control of a Leaky Bladder published in Homemakers offers the following tips for re-training your elmination control:
- • Limit or avoid caffeine/alcohol (coffee, tea, carbonated drinks).
• Drink non-caffeinated fluids — up to six to eight cups (1.5 to two litres) a day.
• Try to avoid getting up more than twice a night.
• Do not “push” when urinating.
• Maintain a healthy weight.
• Don’t smoke. The chronic cough associated with smoking is a risk factor for incontinence.
• Eat more fibre to avoid constipation, which strains and weakens the pelvic floor.
And, in case you needed reminding, just do a kegel right now.
I’ve decided that I am going to do one every time I click on a link whenever I am on the internet. I might as well excercise more than my fingers.
Okay….so what’s my problem? I never got up in the night to pee until I got married – now my hubby jokes constantly about my “itty bitty” bladder!! LOL
Hugs,
Holly
Holly’s Corner
Maybe he’s kicking you as you both sleep and waking you up…
I always got up to pee in the night before kids. You’d think it would be more often after kids. I only have to get up once in the night though b/c I don’t sleep as many hours now that I have kids!!!! LOL
I have been doing more kegels lately though. My body has been a mess since having my second child. I hope these kegels will help me out. I can’t imagine what my body would do if I had more children.
Karen – How is your caffeine intake?
I am also holding at two for the same worry that my body can’t take another pregnancy and birth.
I am stopping at two children b/c I only want two children. I don’t think my body could handle it anyway.
I don’t drink much caffeine. I buy caffeine free diet drinks for when I do have soda, but I only have soda about once a day.
Hmmm.
I think many women compensate for lack of sleep with coffee, which explains the extra time in the lav.
Obviously, you have something far more unique.
How can drinking 2 l a day lead to not peeing every five minutes!!
Maintaining proper hydration makes all of your systems more efficient.
I always had to use the bathroom a lot before having kids. I must have a small bladder or something. Since having two children things have gotten worse, of course. I guess they haven’t gotten terribly worse. I just don’t have the control that I used to have. I’ve been doing my kegels though!!!