Good for Ulrika for talking about this

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here (DM alert!)

That's good, I'm glad she did that.

Ummm, I'm not so convinced it is a great article, it just seems to be yet another example of the "pregnancy/birth completely screws your body up" cliches. I've had three natural births and breast fed and have come through it without LAI/stretch marks/haemmoroids/hair loss/permanent weight gain/flattened breasts etc etc. Yes, some women will get some of these conditions but it's the expectation that it's inevitable that irritates me. I get tired of being told that pregnancy is bad for you and you will never/struggle to recover from the experience

I've read it differently lalalonglegs. I find it positive - she had a problem, and she's dealt with it.

I think it's positive - it's not a topic that's openly discussed, so it's good for it to be out in the open.

lala. Don't think she's saying all women will inevitably get that condition. Just that you should be aware of it. No harm in that.

Pregnancy DOES screw up you body anyway.

Is this not why we were all told to do the dreaded pelvic floor exercises? I was told by almost every medical person and HV I saw during and post pregnancy that if I didn't do them I'd end up wetting myself if the wind so much as changed. Hardly a secret.

Oh well, maybe it's me just being a curmudgeon. Off to admire my remarkably unscathed body in the mirror for a while .

She was on Woman's Hour this morning saying that actually it's a good news story - that you don't have to put up with incontinence and that there is treatment out there.

Not really news though is it.