Rebecca Judd reveals the awkward side effect of having four children – and how a hack involving a Macca’s thickshake has changed her life
Rebecca Judd revealed the downside to having a large family during a frank discussion on KIIS FM’s 3pm Pick-Up on Monday.
The mother of four, 37, said she suffers from occasional incontinence and has learned strategies to cope with her loss of bladder control.
She made the admission while speaking to her co-host Katie ‘Monty’ Dimond, who is pregnant with her third child and is experiencing a slight loss of urine while sneezing.
‘I realised I’m at that stage in pregnancy that when I sneeze, I wee,’ Monty began.
‘Oh, yeah, welcome to my life!’ Rebecca exclaimed, to which her colleague replied with a laugh: ‘Yeah, that’s still you!’
Monty then explained she’d been out walking with a friend recently when she had to sneeze.
She performed her usual routine of bending ‘right over’ and crossing her legs to stop urine coming out, but even this technique didn’t work.
‘I got in the car and I’m like, “I’m going home to change my pants as a grown woman,”‘ she added.
A sympathetic Rebecca replied: ‘Been there, mate, been there.’
The wife of AFL star Chris Judd then offered her advice for women experiencing incontinence during and after pregnancy.
‘I’ll give you a little tip: point your toes together, like you’re pigeon-toed. If you point your toes together then when you’re putting your pelvic floor on, you’re just really isolating that and you’re not accidentally recruiting your glutes.
‘It helps you be able to switch it on more effectively.’
Monty added: ‘So, stand up straight and put your feet in together?’
Rebecca continued: ‘The best thing a physio told me was, “Imagine you’ve got a Macca’s strawberry thickshake and you’ve got the straw and you’re trying to suck that thickshake up? That’s your pelvic floor pulling your baby’s head up, or pulling your wee up.’
This isn’t the first time Rebecca has spoken candidly about incontinence.
In October last year, she mentioned in passing on her radio show that she wears ‘leak-proof’ underwear because she ‘wees her pants’ every time she sneezes due to hay fever.