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Do you <ahem> collect water during a bath

248 replies

Knotnora · 03/05/2016 20:15

Is this one of those things that happens to every woman but nobody talks about.

5 minutes after a bath and its like your water just broke...

This is a thing yeah?

OP posts:
Helpnoidea · 04/05/2016 21:10

No kids but a tilted uterus. Perhaps that's it? Can do the suck it in and swoosh it out thing too. At least I could a while ago. Must go see if I still can.......Grin

Janefromdowntheroad · 04/05/2016 21:28

Bulldog clip Grin

TeaandCake8 · 04/05/2016 21:46

Happened to me b4 having a kid! Sometimes more than others. It's just another place that gathers water in the bath

Snapey66 · 04/05/2016 21:48

Hahah this is totally a thing ! Even if you've not had a baby . Still happens

Sa88yt1ts · 04/05/2016 22:06

frimple I had the same problem for a long time, combined with horrendous piles and constant aching in the pantal region- suspect I had a slight frontal and posterial prolapse all at once. It was miserable, absolutely hideous.

I had a mirena coil fitted and everything eased up. I have absolutely no medical evidence to support this whatsoever, but I 100% believe that the small amounts of hormones straight into my uterus helped everything get back to balance. I am almost totally better- no discomfort, no more pooh pushing, no more 'shame'.

I know there is a lot of Mirena hate on MN but I genuinely thank my lucky stars that it helped me. I love it.

May not be at all suitable for you (I think you mnetioned ovarian cysts) but worth reading up on it. i found something which suggested it all those years ago and am here to tell a happy story.

Good luck.

Oh, and the gush thing- wee and spunk- TOTALLY,

Ach, being a woman is just the best!

Yasmin1592 · 04/05/2016 22:49

Not to me.
I've had 3 DC and haven't experienced this.

LittleHouseOnTheShelf · 04/05/2016 22:55

I was expecting a thread about using the bath water to water the plants, I didn't realise the plants in question were, in fact, lady gardens.

Fourfifthsof · 04/05/2016 23:16

Haha littlehouse Smile

I would love to at my voice to the after bath throng and confirm that I have also experienced the holey trinity (see what I did there) of bath, swimming and spunk. Isn't nature grand? Grin

I love mumsnet.

OhGodWhatTheHellNow · 04/05/2016 23:20

2 cs and I'm in the squirty fanny club, also sex farts and retained sperm. Just part of life's rich tapestry Grin

PovertyPain · 04/05/2016 23:22

Is it wrong that I laughed when I noticed there is an ad for a bath time bundle at the side of this thread? Grin

SueTrinder · 04/05/2016 23:22

I don't have baths anymore but yes to afterswim, although it's better now than it was when the DC were younger. And the horror of swimming with a mooncup tries to erase memory of realising the bloody footprints from the swimming pool to the shower were mine.

Alasalas2 · 04/05/2016 23:25

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RedOnHerHedd · 04/05/2016 23:27

Yes this happens to me too.
Mine seems to be child related though, and since having DS2 I also let air in while DTD. Sometimes it feels like a bicycle pump, pumping me full of air and then I have to tell him to get out so I can do a Fanny fart to release the air. Oh god this really is TMI now. Good job DH has been with me for 20 years!!

fortheloveofvintage · 04/05/2016 23:29

Yep, every bath time I have to sit on the loo for a bit otherwise it all just streams down my legs! Only after my son though. Glad I'm not alone!

BlurtonOnKites · 05/05/2016 00:22

I haven't RTFT but when I clicked on this I thought it was about saving bath water to water plants or something.

summerdreams · 05/05/2016 00:56

I've allways had this. I assumed everyone did Confused. I had a c section with ds never even went in to labour but had this long before he was born.Hmm

Eiram49 · 05/05/2016 01:33

I've had four children - never happened to me?!

mammamic · 05/05/2016 02:16

Never. Caesarian may explain

Frimplepants · 05/05/2016 06:18

Sa8 It's definitely only been constant since I started taking the pill, before it was only a few times a month, around period times I think. That's why I assumed it was pill linked. The doctor did mention the mirena but said it wouldn't be ethical to prescribe it to me and put me on cerazette instead. Which has been a life-saver. Every time I do get my period I go through a but then decide its not worth being taken off the pill over.

Thanks for the rather grim! info catalog. I didn't have a traumatic birth, just a very fast one. Just out of interest, when you say surgery is not pleasant and recovery is quite long what do you mean exactly? (pm me if you don't want to post!)

Cradle Heartening to hear it may be dealt with non-surgically.

MNHQ
BeccaMumsnet · 05/05/2016 12:16

Hi all - we've had a few Classics nominations for this one now and we do think it deserves a spot over there, so we'll move it now. Many thanks for the noms!

DannyFishcharge · 05/05/2016 12:18

I do this. Even before I had kids :/

weeblueberry · 05/05/2016 12:25

I have a bath every night and I've never noticed this. 2 kids...

I'm intrigued now!! Shock

MiffleTheIntrovert · 05/05/2016 13:04

Classics! Curse you op Grin

I'm torn between embarrassment that my faulty fanjo is immortalised forever, and pride that our womanly water retaining skills are worthy of a thread in classics...

HalfpintPixie · 05/05/2016 13:05

I think it's time to put together a synchronised swimming team, at the end we all point our toes in the air and shoot water in the air from our fanjos!

PennyDreadfuI · 05/05/2016 16:26

Re retained sperm, I had a call from a friend a few years ago in which she informed me she was in the freezer aisle at Sainsbury's and the 'leavings' of the previous night's encounter had just burst forth. She was wearing a v short skirt and a thong, so nothing to soak it up. She was stranded next to the fish fingers caught between panic and hysteria, as half a gallon* of spunk made its way down her legs.

*she might have been exaggerating.