Is it normal to leak pee in pregnancy

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I'm 10 weeks pregnant and twice this Has happened to me where I've woken up during the night to pee leaking out of me it's never enough to wet the bed its literally just a tiny bit but this has happened twice also whenever i start to vomit pee also starts leaking then too not every time but sometimes

Sounds like you need to increase the number of pelvic floor exercises you're doing,
Try and set reminders on your phone and get into the habit as it will get harder as your pregnancy progresses and your bump gets bigger and puts more pressure on your pelvic muscles

It's not that common that early in pregnancy, but is very often something that happens later on as everything else gets squished out of the way.

So agree with pp that you need to take pelvic floor exercises very seriously. And buy Tena or Always Discreet, or try period pants to contain any leaks

@UnmentionedElephantDildo what's pelvic floor exercises and it doesn't happen all the time twice when I was sleeping and a few times when I was vomiting

Google pelvic floor exercises or 'kiegals'. Are you sure it's urine though? Could be an increase or change in discharge/cervical mucus.

www.nhs.uk/pregnancy/related-conditions/common-symptoms/vaginal-discharge/

www.nhs.uk/common-health-questions/womens-health/what-are-pelvic-floor-exercises/

The NHS has an app that will remind you to do your pelvic floor training exercises several times daily.

I used an NHS app called Squeezy to remind me and it helped

I did leak pee (only tiny amounts) later on in pregnancy though

Really recommend the app, it was the only way I got myself to do it

I agree that pelvic floor exercises will help but when I was in the first trimester I also used to pee every time I vomited just to make you feel less alone. Many times I would sit on the toilet so it didn't matter and vomit in the sink 🤦 I spoke to a few friends about it and they experienced similar so you're really not alone in that . I found the problem got a lot better once the sickness stopped and has only returned now I'm in the third trimester.

Without exercises though I think it will get worse as you get bigger like pp says and the baby is putting more pressure on your muscles. Good exercises now and hopefully you won't suffer too badly with this problem throughout 🙂

@rieb95 I have now downloaded the NHS app squeezy so I can do pelvic floor exercises I hope I'm doing them right because I've never heard of pelvic floor exercises before the midwife didn't say anything to me about it

Oh yes. Yes indeed. I had HG for the first 5 months and my pelvic floor took such a hammering from it! Great you downloaded the NHS squeezy app, it takes you through doing your pelvic floor exercises and you need to be doing them 3x daily ideally. It really helped me get back to normal during and after all the vomiting and keep doing it right up to birth and beyond!

It's actually really common in early pregnancy! It's caused by the increase of progesterone relaxing everything. It'll get better in a few weeks and then you might experience some leaks again at the end of pregnancy due to the pressure. Just one of those things I'm afraid!

Keep doing the exercises... until you die. Otherwise, incontinence, prolapses and other nasties await you as you age. Or buy shares in Tena. All women should do this.