The easiest way to “feel” these muscles is to squeeze as though you are trying to hold in a pee. The muscles that tighten around your urethra to keep urine from leaking out (and the same muscles you would tighten to keep from devacating when you didn’t want to) are your pelvic muscles.
If these are weak from childbirth or lack of exercise, all sorts of unpleasant things can begin to happen, the most obvious of which being you could leak either urine or feces. That’s no good, so it’s always nice to get the jump on incontinence — not being able to hold it — by strengthening these muscles.
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