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?'s for c-section mommas
When did you feel completely back to normal? I'm not in pain, but I still have to be careful about what I do and how I bend, etc.
When did you get the all-clear to exercise?
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Re: ?'s for c-section mommas
I got the all clear for light exercise around 6 weeks. However, I was still having some random pains when I'd go from laying on my back to sitting. I think it was just some stretching of some scar tissue that had started to develop.
I think around that time I had started taking DD for walks around the neighborhood, but it was awhile before I was brave enough for more strenuous things.
I got the all-clear for everything (swimming, baths, exercise, etc.) at 3 weeks. But I had a really easy recovery and only about 4-7 days of PP bleeding.
I can't remember when I felt back to normal, but it was soon. I was up and cooking the day I was released (48 hours later), and taking walks the next day. I had no problems flying alone with him at 17 days and don't remember having any problems traveling, although I did need someone to lift my luggage into the overhead bin for me.
ETA: If you aren't ready for all of these things, don't feel bad. You had two babies! And everyone heals differently.
Apparently you are a super hero. Holy crap.
I got the all-clear to exercise at 6 weeks, with the understanding that I'd stop if my body told me to.
I have to say though - even now, when I lay on my back and stretch my arms up over my head, I still dont' feel like I have the full range of motion in my abs, if that makes sense.
I remember at 3 months, everythign still feeling REALLY tight in the ab department. Oh, and the incision felt like a burn for a while - now even it will kinda itch at times and it's still a bit sensitive to the touch.
So I guess I'm not COMPLETELY back to normal yet, but getting there...
If it makes you feel better, I'm not getting the all clear until 6 weeks and that's for any activity. I'm not sure when my OB is going to let me go back to teaching my fitness classes. Granted, I still feel like a big blob, so I'm not ready to get up in front of people anytime soon either...lol. I actually only feel aches and pains when I do too much. I've been running errands and doing things around the house since about 1 week after my c-section but I did pay for it at times. I'm trying to take it easy when I can so my recovery goes faster but I'm not good at resting and sitting stiill (hence the almost 3 week hospital stay).
I'm sure it takes a while to feel back to normal. Seeing as my birth was only 2 days before yours, I definitely feel your pain.
I got the official all clear for exercise from my doctor at 6 weeks, but I started running again at 3 weeks and competed in a tri at 10 weeks. Like naclh2, I healed very quickly (although I was not lucky enough to have only 4-7 days of pp bleeding.)
All that said, there are times when I still get tender after a particularly hard workout and it's been over a year. It's not painful, more of a general awareness that my body is not the same as it was before I was sliced open. Just listen to your body. Take short walks at first and build up from there.
Nah, just a great ob/surgeon and an infertility disorder that helped with the [lack of] bleeding.
Plus I was so stir crazy from the weeks of bedrest that I was super excited to be allowed to be up and about again.
I felt pretty good at 2 weeks pp and great at 4 weeks pp. However, I *still* get sore if I do too much (i.e: ab workouts make my incision hurt and it hurt like heck for two days after we moved). My mom had a c/s with me and my brother (21 years ago for my bro) and she says to this day, if she moves wrong she can feel it where her incision was :-/
I got the cleared for moderate exercise (walking and biking) at my 2wk appointment and then cleared for everything else at 6 weeks. To be honest, though, I don't feel 100% recovered now - almost 13 weeks pp. I started exercising at 6 weeks, but I still don't feel back to my old self. That may have nothing to do with the c/s though, and more to do with the fact that I couldn't exercise from 20 weeks on.