Half of women experience at least some incontinence postpartum: study

A US longitudinal study has tracked the natural history of incontinence in first-time mothers
Clare Pain
woman with watering can watering a plantsignifying urinary incontinence

Rates of urinary incontinence (UI) more than double over the first 30 months after a first singleton pregnancy, US researchers report.

Their study is one of the few to ask women repeatedly about the incidence of UI during pregnancy and through the early years of child-rearing, they say.