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How soon can you (safely) get pregnant again?

emmasue18emmasue18 member
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I haven't had my PP check up to ask this yet, but I am curious as to when we could consider baby #3? I am absolutely terrified of pregnacy post c-section, I feel like I would just pop open. It is hard for me to believe everything will just stay together for nine months. Tee hee, then again, I am just two weeks PP so doing anything I feel this way! I would love to get pregnant in the early fall, but that was pre c-section. Now I am thinking to wait until Fall 2013. But we'll see! :-)

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  • biblionerdbiblionerd member

    It will depend on your OB. Mine says there is no significant medical evidence to suggest it being necessary to wait longer than a year between c-sections. So we got pg again and will have them 11 months 1 week apart. 

    eta: although I've FELT like things are going to just pop open, they haven't yet! 

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    My OB cleared me to get pregnant at my 6 week checkup the first time around. After #2, he told me to wait a year before conceiving which was fine, since I wasnt wanting a 3rd baby right away. This was due to the fact that I had a rough recovery from #2 based on some complications (unrelated to closely spaced births) so he thought it would be better on my body.

    My 2nd pregnancy was a breeze, even after getting pregnant 4.5 months after a c-section. I had some discomfort around my incision in first tri, but nothing unmanageable and it went away within a few weeks. My 2nd pregnancy was way easier than my first.

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  • ChiTown BridgetChiTown Bridget member
    My ob never gave me any restrictions but I do know a lot of people are told to wait a year.
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  • mlf625mlf625
    My OB said it was fine to get pregnant as soon as we wanted to.  I got pregnant with #2 when #1 was 8 months old, and with #3 when #2 was 22 months.
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  • Daisy22Daisy22 member

    For a VBAC, my OB wants at least 12 months between and would perfer 18 months. I didn't want a vbac so that didn't matter to me. There was 6 1/2 months between my 1st and getting pg with my 2nd. This time there was 11 1/2 months between my 2nd c/s and this 3rd pg. The # of c/s or the length between doesn't make me more high risk or anything.

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  • magdalina.hmagdalina.h member
    All OBs have different opinions. Mine said to wait 6 months. She said that after my first and I got pregnant after 4 months (with her okay) and everything was fine.
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