10/27/2026
Rating the pelvic floor advice you’ve been given, out of ten, starting with the one that’s genuinely... making things worse.
Drink less water so you leak less: 0 out of 10.
Concentrated urine irritates your bladder, so you’ll go more, not less.
Hover over public toilets: 1 out of 10. Your floor can’t relax in a half squat, so you never fully empty. Sit down.
Wear a pad and get on with it: 1 out of 10. Leaking is common. It is not something you have to accept for forty years.
A hundred kegels a day: 2 out of 10. Fine if your floor is genuinely weak, actively worse if it’s tight, and most moms have never been told which one they are.
Kegels while you drive: 3 out of 10, because timing is the whole skill and random squeezing teaches your floor nothing about a sneeze.
Feet on a stool and stop straining: 9 out of 10. Free, instant, hardly anyone knows.
Exhale on the effort when you lift: 10 out of 10, the most transferable thing on this list.
And seeing a pelvic floor PT: 10 out of 10. If it isn’t improving, that’s the shortcut, not the last resort.
🫶Comment BREATHE and I’ll send you my diaphragmatic breathing guide.
