Semen Leakage After Intercourse?
QUESTION
Dear Midwife,
My husband and I have been trying to have children for about a year. I don't want to get too graphic, but every time we make love, afterward I automatically pee out all of his semen. If I try to hold it in, it just leaks out in the middle of the night and I wake up with wet panties. This concerns me and obviously we can't have children like this. What can I do? Is this a sign of something wrong with either him or me?
ANSWER
All I can suggest is that you empty your bladder prior to making love, and then put a pillow under your bottom to raise your bottom for about 20 minutes after making love. Any sperm that will be strong enough to impregnate you will probably get past the cervix in the first five minutes anyway, so if any semen leaks out hours later, it probably does not contain many viable sperm. Good luck!
-- Cynthia, CNM
Cynthia Flynn
Cynthia Flynn, CNM. PhD, is the General Director of the Family Health and Birth Center which provides prenatal, birth, postnatal, gynecological and primary health care to underserved women and their families in Washington, D.C. Recently Cynthia served as Associate Professor of Nursing at Seattle University. There she not only taught, but remained in full scope clinical midwifery practice at Valley Medical Center where she cared for pregnant and birthing women, and practices well-woman gynecology, family planning, and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases.
Cynthia founded Columbia Women's Clinic and Birth Center, where she took care of pregnant women and infants up to two weeks of age and attended both birth center and hospital births. Before Cynthia earned her CNM, she worked as a registered nurse in labor and delivery and postpartum and is a certified Doula and Doula trainer.
