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Coming home from martial arts the other night, MapGuy asked if I'd had a good training session.
"I liked it better than Pirates of Penzance" I said.
He looked at me blankly.
Turns out his aptitude for pop culture references is not as advanced as mine. Shame.
But the Pretty Woman fans amongst us will know it was a sly way of saying I trained so hard I almost peed my pants.
Last week my friend and I we were talking about me flipping MG to the ground in a take down defence, and kicking butt and I said I was going to try my hardest because "I'm not wearing a sports bra and a liner for nothing!", adding "TENA should sponsor me!". We laughed the way only girlfriends who have both had gigantic babies can.
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| The last time MapGuy ever hugs me from behind! From standing to flat on the floor in 3 seconds. |
So when this info from TENA arrived in my inbox, I thought perhaps my house was bugged, then had a giggle. I didn't PMSL, but if i had of, it would have been OK.
I have the habit of oversharing. But what happens when I do it, is that most of the time, whoever I'm talking to will chime in with a "me too" story. And you guessed it, needing to wear a liner for sports is almost always a "me too" moment. Despite us all doing pelvic floor exercises, sometimes it still happens. Just look at all those Cross Fit wee photos.
Most of my mum friends are a tad nervous when it comes to physical activity like jumping or lifting weights. For those who have no idea, and are lucky enough to have no issue, I'm not saying we wet our pants the way a kid does. We're talking droplets.
But those droplets can freak you out and, well, they just feel awful.
So I never go to training without a liner. Screw the stigma.
Incontinence (yep, I used the real word) is more common than you think, affecting 1 in 3 women and 1
in
10 men within Australia.
TENA has created infographics to help simplify it for us. Because everyone loves an infographic.
See the bit down the bottom? It's only tiny, but it says free samples are available. They'll send you out a pack with a couple different ones to try. Oh, and it's a plain envelope, by the way, so if you're not down with smashing the stigma just yet, that's cool, too!
