Recent adverts by Tena for incontinence panties for women who've recently given birth, fail to give advice on how to prevent the condition. So please, read on.
In the UK, women are given a leaflet about pelvic floor exercises and health visitors urge us to do them - but most women don't.
So a third of women have urinary incontinence six weeks after giving birth.
If post-natal care followed the French, urinary incontinence and prolapse at menopause could be far less common. French women are routinely referred for 10 sessions of pelvic floor physiotherapy and another 10 sessions of abdominal therapy, which can be claimed back from France's social security system.
Source: Feature on gynaecological care in Good Housekeeping, October 2019
