It's fine not to get up in the night. Your body naturally makes less urine at night because you are not drinking or eating. So don't worry about that. I would stick to third hourly catheterisation just to make sure your bladder doesn't get too stretched... Let's know how you go xxx
PS: Also make sure you your urine doesn't smell or sting - catheterisation can lead to UTI... Also drink plenty of water...
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Ahh ok cool. i have been very very clean. let's hope i don't get an UTI that would be my last straw.
It's fine not to get up in the night. Your body naturally makes less urine at night because you are not drinking or eating. So don't worry about that. I would stick to third hourly catheterisation just to make sure your bladder doesn't get too stretched... Let's know how you go xxx
PS: Also make sure you your urine doesn't smell or sting - catheterisation can lead to UTI... Also drink plenty of water...
I guess this isn't to common?? everyone i talk to has no idea about it?
It's not common darling but not uncommon... That probably doesn't make sense....I know I was unusual as it happens after any sort of operation or any of my births. Sadly I have lost 3 babies & it also happened after them. (I had 3 early miscarriages but it didn'thappen then - just when I actually birthed or had an anesthetic)...
So, it certainly happens just that many people don't have to experience it. Keep me posted about how you're going. Also, try and get into a post natal physio that's important - and I would be seeing a urologist.
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Yeah that makes senseIt's not common darling but not uncommon... That probably doesn't make sense....
So, it certainly happens just that many people don't have to experience it. Keep me posted about how you're going. Also, try and get into a post natal physio that's important - and I would be seeing a urologist.wow you have this prob everytime?? how to you get thru it? i'm just scared it won't come back after a month
my doc is following up some specialist for me, she said the hospital should of done that she was not impressed.
I'm so sorry for the loss of your babies
i'll chase up a post natal physio i saw one in hospital and all she said what do my pelvic floor exercises and that's all she could help with
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update after 4 days of not going at all i just went 500mls myself but still had to cath 300mls
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i'm also having problems, different to yours but equally debilitating and depressing... i'm 4 weeks post partum with no sign of improvement... i have what they call 'stress incontinence', as in when you laugh, cough, lift something heavy etc, but i don't have to do ANY of those things to leak or wet my pants, i just have to stand up, or not have gone to the toilet for say an hour, and i am wet.... i am in tears several times a day and avoid leaving the house... i am told the same thing, it will get better in time.... i am so sceptical due to the severity of it, i just want to book in for surgery and get it fixed, i have a great baby and feel these first few months will be tainted as one of the worst times of my life due to this condition, when i should be enjoying my family.... with my first born i had a traumatic birth and very difficult baby, which also made the first 6 months or so a terrible time.... i finally feel like its my turn to have things semi under control, and i have a baby i feel i can 'manage', ie he isn't screaming the house down, and here i am too scared to move on the couch cos i keep pee-ing my pants.
sorry i've had such a whinge, just wanted to let you know there is someone else in a similar position as you....
i have just read that breast feeding can worsen incontinence due to the lack of oestregen levels, and when i give up breast feeding i will notice an improvement.... so now i have the added stress of choosing whether to breastfeed my baby, which it has been going relatively well, to giving it up and hoping my condition improves, and possibly getting a better quality of life for myself and my family as a result, and avoiding depression which i am inevitably headed towards...
sorry i've rambled, i am just so so so distraught, can't even go to the shops without having an accident, feel like i can't look after my family properly.... nobody is really helping me although i am seeing a physio on monday... everyone else just says 'give it time'... yeah meanwhile i am housebound and sobbing.
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Emma big hugs my love - it sounds like things are really tough
Many women do have this & it is true it does get better in time. I know that is hard to hear but it is true. I had it to a lesser degree after my 3rd baby.
You do need to see a physio & I am shocked that you haven't been referred before now. It's very important. I have seen many women with what you describe & it can be treated & helped very effectively a great deal of the time by a good physio with postnatal specialty.
In the mean time it would be helpful to get some incontinence pads so you don't have to worry about accidents. It's very very important to do your pelvic floor exercises as often as you can... It's also helpful to "double void"... This is when you go to the loo to empty your bladder - do your thing. Get up and then sit down & do it again. Sometimes with the weight of pregnancy on your bladder &/or the strain of labour you can do some damage to the nerve endings. So your bladder doesn't feel full & it is. Or it feels empty but it's not.
It's a very good sign that you are voiding okay - now we need to train that bladder to recognise when it's wee time.
I hope you have some help from the physio - let us know how you go...
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Oh hon,
please post in here as much as you want. the docs also say to me it will get better in time but i feel it's getting worse. Sorry my post is all over the place i'm crying my eyes out.
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