Women who suffer from incontinence are no longer under pressure

A post-pregnancy ailment once suffered in silence, urine leakage used to ruin social lives and restrict exercise. Now, more women are willing to discuss the issue, and cures are more readily available, writes Áilín Quinlan.

Toilet mapping’ and ‘latchkey urgency’ are phrases you’re probably going to hear more about as women increasingly seek help for an embarrassing problem which affects large numbers of them — leaking urine.

There are women who know the location of every public toilet in their local town or city, says Barry O’Reilly, consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at Cork University Maternity Hospital and the Bon Secours Hospital.