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Recovery

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How long did it take you to recover from a C-Section?  Mine was an unplanned emergency procedure so I was far from prepared.  It's been three weeks and I'm wondering how long it will be before I will feel like I can really exercise and when I'll be able to try to wear pants that don't have an elastic waistband. 
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Re: Recovery

  • cassoppeacassoppea

    It depends what you define as recovery.  Also, I had a planned c/s so my recovery might be different (although I went into labor before, so technically it was emergency but it wasn't after hours and hours of labor). 

    I think I really felt back to pretty good after 2 weeks.  I didn't have any more pain and could resume normal daily stuff.  Although I do remember feeling like waiting 10 days to drive was ridiculous - I could have driven comfortably after a week.  I think I felt ready for exercise about 4 weeks after, but my doctor made me wait 6 weeks. 

    As for the pants - well I still wear a lot of stretch pants!  But I don't remember really having an issue with regular pants.  I doubt I tried them for at least a month after anyway. 

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  • jaimeCRNjaimeCRN member
    By 2 weeks, I was up doing stuff around the house.  By 5 weeks, I felt good enough to exercise but like pp wasn't cleared until 6 weeks. I wore stretch pants for 10-12 weeks pp.  But only because I was too cheap to go and buy an in-between size pair of pants.  Otherwise I would have felt good in normal pants at 5-6 weeks.
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  • mrsmullins0500mrsmullins0500 member

    I would say after about 2 weeks I was feeling alot better. The pain had mostly gone away by then.

    It took me awhile to get back into "real" pants though. I couldn't stand to have anything touching my incision. I would say it was probably around 6 weeks before I wore an actual pair of jeans. It was uncomfortable for me, even then.

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  • LaurdaJeanLaurdaJean
    I had an unplanned c/s as well and was back 95% 5 days pp and then 100% at 1 week pp when they removed my staples. I wasn't cleared to start exercising until 4 weeks and I think it might have been 5 or 6 weeks pp that jeans felt normal again. Remember, you had major surgery. You have to give yourself time to recover even if you feel like you can do it all. Smile
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