During your pregnancy, your pelvic floor muscles will loosen due to hormonal changes in your body. This loosening, as well as your growing baby pressing down onto your bladder, can cause you to leak urine when you cough, laugh, sneeze, exercise, or do anything too strenuous.
For some, this is can also be a short-term problem, as a result of a medical condition or medication, but for many others, it is a problem that is on-going, especially during and after pregnancy.
The good news is that there are ways to improve your incontinence and one is pelvic floor muscle exercises. Doing pelvic floor exercises will strengthen these muscles and help you control any accidents. It will also help you ease your baby out during labour, and recover faster after the birth too.