It is very common among pregnant females especially during the course of their pregnancy. The experience, frequency, intensity & flow of urinary incontinence may vary from one pregnant female to another, but uncontrolled urine leakage is very certain among expectant women. Some expectant mothers may experience very few episodes while other may be stressed because of frequent recurring. Similarly, flow of urine varies from few drops to complete loss. The emergence of urinary incontinence may occur from the initiation of pregnancy and may continue even after the child birth. In some cases, it may stop immediately after the baby is born and may reoccur even after few years in the form of some different type of urinary incontinence.

If we talk about Urinary incontinence during pregnancy, it is generally in the form of stress incontinence due to the fact that female body in undergoing a series of changes. As the baby grow, the amount of changes increases and a huge pressure is experienced and as a result of which stress incontinence is caused. Due to its emergence, there is a lot of pressure on bladder and its activities and it turn out to be helpless to control the urines. Pregnant ladies also experience overactive bladder, which result into frequent urination. Pressure from within the body may be caused because of sneezing, sometimes laughing, or coughing is forced over bladder, contracts the muscles and it loses control and result into unwanted urination.

Now talking about post pregnancy, stress is not the one reason for Urinary incontinence. So obvious is the fact that stress which occurs due to the growth of child in the form of stretched muscles is being removed. But females still face incontinence problems, which are there due to the fact of weakening of pelvic floor muscles, which happen during the child birth. This may give birth to the case of overactive bladder. Apart from weak Pelvic floor, there could be other reasons of urinary incontinence as well, such as a shift in the organs together with urethra and bladder while being pregnant, any sort of episiotomy being carried out in order to decrease the tearing of pelvic muscles, damage of fine nerves around the bladder, also if any treatment has been carried out for urinary incontinence during pregnancy, could become one of the reason for post incontinence.

You being aware of so many causes on Incontinences now, if you are one of the sufferer, or any of your loved one is going through such trauma, you should consult the medical expert and depending upon the cause of the incontinence, a worthwhile treatment has to be carried out to control and cure the incontinence.