Very embarrassing... but does this happen to anyone else down below after swimming?

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TMI warning. And I really am trying to find a way to make this not sound awful.

I took my kids swimming today. This is a problem that seems to have developed since having kids. After I leave the swimming pool, I seem to have pool water leaking from me. I'll dry myself and get dressed and then it will sort of gush out a little bit and can happen again and again until all the water is out. I'm actually mortified writing this but I'm hoping someone on here may have experienced this or knows why it's happening or if there's anything I can do about it?

You are not the first to ask that question on MN, so can’t be the only one.

It happens to me a little when I’m getting out the pool. Might be worth now I’ve given birth!

Worse

Pelvic floor exercises might help?

www.thepregnancycentre.com.au/post-pregnancy/tips/leaking-after-swimming

Do your kegels!

That used to happen to me after a bath (and probably still would but I tend to shower now). I put it down to 4 pregnancies and a weak pelvic floor 🤷‍♀️

It's normal isn't it, after vigourous swimming? Water gets up there and then it just makes its way out. I get the same thing if I've been lying in the bath for a while.

I have also read similar on MN before

I get this a bit after a hot bath, especially if I've led down/sat up a couple of times and I have never given birth.

We're mysterious creatures.

Same used to happen to me after a bath!

I think it may be sign of weak pelvic floor but could be wrong. Try Kegals and the nhs Squeezy app. It got better for me!

Try going down the big slides in a water park. Seems to jetwash the water up there!

I get where I stand up after a wee and the wee still trickles out down my thigh

This has always happened to me. When my waters went I’d had a bath 30 minutes earlier and thought it was just bath water! DH was running around like a lunatic grabbing the hospital bag and the maternity notes and I was sat eating curry, adamant that it wasn’t my waters. Walked into AAU and the first thing the midwife said when she looked up at me was, “Your waters have definitely gone” (I still don’t know how she could tell).

I just have showers instead and I’ve never really been a big swimmer, but I always just put a towel on if I’ve been to the pool.

I swim 4-5 times a week, for fitness, I'm pretty rubbish so only do breaststroke. I suspect that a kicking strike might not be as troublesome. It happens to me just before my period is due and at no other time. I suspect that (ahem) sometimes the water gets in more easily than others. I'll leave it there....

Rarely after a bath. Your ok OP! Normal. It is a hole after all

I used to get this but it went after perineumrepair following a prolapse repair.

This is one of the reasons I don't go in public pools. Fanny water.

No, this has never happened to me, but it looks like you're not alone.

As per PP, me and my daughter were laughing / cringing with each other after going on some 'death slide' type rides at a water park. we were both walking away ...dripping

This has happened to me all my life , even before having kids.
On holidays when I step out of the pool I can feel it coming out
My children have drank pool water more timrs than I’d like to imagine

Yes. Always, and sometimes with an unnerving noise. Not a fanny fart noise, a moist, desperate squeak.

I get this too and I've got a pelvic floor of steel

I can never understand how some women manage to swim on their periods and rely on tampons as mine would just soak up water instantly and have no absorbency left for anything else.

Yup. Some much so that I used to jam a wedge of loo paper in the area. Till I started Pilates. No more embarrassing deluges.

I've recently started swimming again after years. I can't do front crawl so do breaststroke but find it very uncomfortable feeling myself 'taking in' water. No DCs so no excuse for a weak pelvic floor - this thread has prompted me to get kegel-ing

It'd be strange if it didn't happen, really, wouldn't it? I mean, it's essentially a little pouch with an opening at one end, it would make sense for it to let in some water in a pool.