Women who have had kidney stones and who have had children generally agree that having kidney stones was a lot more painful than having a child.

As the name says, the pelvic floor is the floor of the pelvis and forms a hammock, or sling, upon which our internal organs rest.

A few simple lifestyle changes may help the millions of people living with urinary incontinence regain control of their daily lives, one expert says.

Decreasing oestrogen levels can weaken muscles controlling the bladder and urethra (tube carrying urine from the bladder). Urinary tract tissue also becomes less elastic.