"Hearing pregnancy described as cheese-making gave a familiar texture to the body's transformations."

Laura Gowing, Common Bodies: Women, Touch and Power in Seventeenth-Century England (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2003), p. 4.

And p. 23

Note the quote, "Jokes about incontinence focus not on those women most likely to have bladder problems--mothers and older women--but on adolescents, whose leakiness is sexier"