These findings also concurred with those reported by Dumoulin et al.(2004) who studied the effects of a PFME programme on mothers with persistent postnatal SUI, finding that the mothers in the experimental group showed astatistically significant reduction in urinary leakage from 12.5to8.0 g on a pad test, and a decrease in mean score of perceived SUI severity as evaluated by VAS from 8.0to2.5 after 8 weeks of PFME (P