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Urinary incontinence:  Lack of control over passage of urine.  Incontinence is lack of voluntary control over urine, when an individual can not by him or her self control the time to urinate and it seems the body dictates which time that may not be appropriate and acceptable for that individual. In children (Infants and younger toddlers) incontinence may be allowed because they have not yet developed well their voluntary nervous system. When it happens in an adult, we raise so much eye brows and question it. There are different categories of lack of control over urine passage (incontinence). When one cannot delay or postpone urination (urge incontinence), when urine comes out after sneezing, laughing, carrying a heavy load or coughing (stress incontinence), when one cannot even hold urine at all probably due to a dysfunction of the nerves controlling the bladder, and there are many others too.  This write up will be focusing more on stress incontinence. Let me quickly say...

Pregnancy is a physiological state in which a woman carries one or more babies in her womb over a specified period of time (the normal between 37 to 40weeks) after which she delivers and carries the product in her arms. It is an immunosuppressive state involving the whole systems of the body.  The events from the day one to the last day of pregnancy differ from one woman to another, generally speaking the most of women find the 1st trimester (1st 3 months) a bit challenging due to the morning sickness, the sudden but later gradual changes they experience in their body system and the psychological burden that may vary from one woman to another depending on the circumstances that surround the pregnancy.  The second trimester (2nd 3 months) is usually a period of peace and psychological well-being for the woman as she starts getting bonded to the fetus which would have started moving (kicking) from about 16-18 weeks of gestational age. Again, these differ from woman to woman....