Incontinence - help please

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I’m only 13 weeks with my first and think I am leaking urine. It’s getting embarrassing.

I have had a couple bleeds so thought I was being paranoid that I felt wet and that it would be blood and kept running to the loo. I put in pantyliners to try and see what was happening. DH thought I was anxious.

Past few days I’ve been convinced it’s wee. I’m constantly going to the toilet and it’s usually only a dribble, sometimes I have to push wee out and sometimes I can sit on the loo and not realise I’m weeing. I have been avoiding going out especially at the moment when so many toilets are shut.

Today is the final straw - DH (kindly I should add) has told me I smell of wee and he definitely agrees I’m weeing myself. I’ve had a google and it says about stress incontinence when laughing etc but this just seems to be dribbles all the time. Nothing seems to make it better or worse.

Please tell me I’m not alone and this will stop?. What can I do? I’m doing my pelvic floor exercises. I’ve never had a problem like this before I’ve always been able to hold it.

Hi, I was the same as this it’s quite common I think. I was around 10 weeks when it started and it stayed during pregnancy. I’m now 5 weeks after birth and it has stopped so hopefully it’s the same for you.

It also might be worth seeing if the GP surgery can dip a sample to make sure you haven’t got a urine infection just to rule it out.
Also mention to your midwife because they might be able to give you some support too. I hope it improves soon!

I had the most amazing physio during my pregnancies. Look up mummy mot and find someone who does that if you can. They will make sure you are doing your pelvic floor exercises correctly and help you strengthen your core muscles through pregnancy and postnatally which will make your recovery from birth much easier. Also I'd recommend downloading and using the free NHS Squeezy app.

I would go to the gp and check it's not a UTI.
I'm not sure it is that pregnancy incontinence should be happening so early on.

In the meantime make sure you are drinking plenty and wearing tena pantyliners which you should change regularly to stop the wee smell.

This happened to me at 38 weeks and I rushed to the hospital paying £50 in a taxi panicking telling the driver to hurry up convinced I was in labour 😂😂😂😂😂

@DeeDee9898 how did you cope with it? I really hope it stops too. It’s good to hear yours has and congratulations 🎉

@Humpty11 I have an appointment with maternity on the weekend so was going to ask them to check my urine while I was there and see what they say about it.

@Hollywhiskey thank you I will look them up. I was quite fit/active before and thought my pelvic floor was ok too but obviously not! Can’t stop squeezing now!

@felttree thank you. I didn’t expect it this early on either. Definitely going to be changing the tena lady I’m so paranoid about it.

@esselllx thank you for making me smile.