#bladder weakness

Me: My doctor said it helps squeeze out the last bit of pee.

Wife: Why don't you just sneeze?

Me:

Wife:

Me:

Wife: :D

Me: I'll punch you in the tit.

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No one told me that unexpected leaks are okay!  In fact, incontinence in women is far more common than we imagine but most women won’t talk about it.  More than a third (35 per cent) of women still consider light bladder weakness to be a taboo subject.

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The thing we don’t talk about #oooopsmoments

You know how they say that sometimes you open your mouth and your mother comes out? No? Yes? That doesn’t happen to me so much; my mum and I aren’t particularly alike and I’d need far more intelligent stuff to drop pearl-like and wisdom-y for me to sound much like her. ;) However, there are often times these days when I remind myself very much of my mum, the mum I remember when I was a little…

A chance chat about my idea at a village social event set me off on the next step of the just B me journey … a friend of a friend mentioned a knickers manufacturer (Headen & Quarmby) who had featured in a TV documentary.

After a few weeks of building up the courage (did I mention that I hate chatting on the phone to people I don’t know – it is a visual thing as I like to see the faces of people I am talking to), I phoned Headen & Quarmby to see if they could help.  They could and they did … bringing their professional expertise to my amateur knickers design, they made the first sample.

The problem was, my measurements weren’t quite right, so the knickers turned out a little ‘Simon Cowell-style’!

After a rather awkward phone call, where I am sure I used all of the wrong terminology (there may have been a better phrase than ‘camel toe’ to describe the bunching at the front that I needed to avoid, but hey) we got to the bottom of the issue … a too tight elastic waistband was dragging the knickers up practically to my ‘nips’ while the fabric I had bought for the leg bindings wasn’t stretchy enough.  Thank goodness the H&Q team were patient!