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Sorry for being naive but: "A lot of 30+ women decide they don't want to piss their pants and have painful intercourse for the rest of their lives. " Is this

Sorry for being naive but: "A lot of 30+ women decide they don't want to piss their pants and have painful intercourse for the rest of their lives. " Is this a real risk of vaginal child birth? And how risky is it?

iforgotpassword 8y ago
Yes, vaginal birth increases the risk compared to c-sec. However unlike what GPs wording suggests you don't go full throttle like a toddler learning to sleep without a diaper, it's more like a few droplets. If you had it during pregnancy already, chances are higher it'll continue after birth. In most cases it stops after a few weeks, but it can be permanent, so it will happen every now and then, when you're sneezing hard etc. You can get it under control with exercising. You can look up further information from your country's health institutions, usually including numbers on how prevalent it is where you're from. Being older when giving birth, being obese and some other factors do increase the risk.
SolaceQuantum 8y ago
This is a real risk of vaginal birth. Long term complications of vaginal birth are not usually studied (this may be related to an ongoing issue in the medical community in failing to address women’s health). For example, painful sex has been reported in a quarter of women 18 months after birth. Painful sex is common in 90% of women in the shorter term after giving birth. Women overwhelmingly experience at least one complication within 6 weeks after birth and are recommended to wear adult diapers as the uterus continues to expel. Women also report at least one long term health complication about a third of the time. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postpartum_period https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postpartum_period) (Edit: this doesn’t differentiate between vagina and c-section, but for example I’ve seen in passing that vaginal birth causes more issues with incontinence and painful sex)
kdowining 8y ago
The majority of incidence of female incontinence is attributed to child birth. It's a very high risk that no one like to talk about...mostly because who cares about women? And who cares if they pee themselves for the rest of their lives? They're alive aren't they? I'm not joking, when I talked to my doctor about this they totally dismissed this concern in a manner that suggested that women should just be fine with a diminished quality of life after child birth. That that's just the way it is and should be and if you don't like it, then don't have kids.

iforgotpassword 8y ago

Yes, vaginal birth increases the risk compared to c-sec. However unlike what GPs wording suggests you don't go full throttle like a toddler learning to sleep without a diaper, it's more like a few droplets. If you had it during pregnancy already, chances are higher it'll continue after birth. In most cases it stops after a few weeks, but it can be permanent, so it will happen every now and then, when you're sneezing hard etc. You can get it under control with exercising. You can look up further information from your country's health institutions, usually including numbers on how prevalent it is where you're from. Being older when giving birth, being obese and some other factors do increase the risk.

SolaceQuantum 8y ago

This is a real risk of vaginal birth. Long term complications of vaginal birth are not usually studied (this may be related to an ongoing issue in the medical community in failing to address women’s health). For example, painful sex has been reported in a quarter of women 18 months after birth. Painful sex is common in 90% of women in the shorter term after giving birth. Women overwhelmingly experience at least one complication within 6 weeks after birth and are recommended to wear adult diapers as the uterus continues to expel. Women also report at least one long term health complication about a third of the time. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postpartum_period https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postpartum_period) (Edit: this doesn’t differentiate between vagina and c-section, but for example I’ve seen in passing that vaginal birth causes more issues with incontinence and painful sex)

kdowining 8y ago

The majority of incidence of female incontinence is attributed to child birth. It's a very high risk that no one like to talk about...mostly because who cares about women? And who cares if they pee themselves for the rest of their lives? They're alive aren't they? I'm not joking, when I talked to my doctor about this they totally dismissed this concern in a manner that suggested that women should just be fine with a diminished quality of life after child birth. That that's just the way it is and should be and if you don't like it, then don't have kids.