Postpartum recovery

Re: Postpartum recovery

• Megaphone2752 member

  June 2015 edited June 2015

  It gets better. I felt a lot better by 3-4 weeks and I'm almost 9 weeks now and I'm feeling like myself.

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• mbt385 member

  June 2015

  For me, I felt more like myself between weeks 2-3, walking got easier in week 3, sitting and peeing got easier in week 4, and I'm still bleeding a little at 1m2d pp. Recovery is no joke. I knew it'd be uncomfortable, but no one warned me that it'd be worse than giving birth (with an epidural, of course)!! Ibuprofen is your friend!!!!!!

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• toddabunny member

  June 2015

  Yep I'm 3 weeks Tomorrow and feel the same :-(

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• nursej519 member

  June 2015

  I am almost 6 weeks and still feel this way. I didn't have a traumatic delivery either. Just a first degree tear with a few stitches and a urethral tear. I am still bleeding off and on and just feel overall weak, as far as my pelvic muscles are concerned. Ugh!

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• mars8k member

  June 2015

  3 weeks is too early to be thinking about sex you still have time to recover, i'm 5 weeks, stitches don't hurt since about last week but i still feel a slight pull when i use the toiled, sorry TMI!, i'm hoping this will go away by next week.
  
  Just remember it took 9 months for you body to get this way so it's unrealistic to ask it to go back to what it was after only few weeks, i'm 5 weeks and my line and marks are still the same since pregnancy as well but my friends told me it takes a while so i'm not worried and neither should you
  
  Talk to someone about your baby blues or simply have someone around when you have it to keep you company and help with the baby

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• dec2018mom member

  June 2015

  I'm sorry you're feeling this way.
  I'm a FTM and am 5 weeks 2 days PP. I had bad tears and 6 stitches internally and externally. Nobody warned me about the pain or how rough recovery would be.
  
  3 days after I got home both of my legs from my feet to hips were almost twice the size that they were before pregnancy due to swelling. Keeping my legs together was impossible. Pain and pulling from the stitches was terrible! I tried Dermoplast spray, squirt bottle, and sitz baths, but nothing eased it. Ibuprofen didn't come close to touching the pain and I was given no pain meds.
  
  The line on my belly and stretchies were still there...my boobs were so swollen that LO couldn't latch.
  
  I know your pain. I'm so glad to tell you that all of that is gone for me. It takes a while. Just like every pregnancy is different...recovery is too.
  
  The sex thing will come in time. Do it when you're ready and use lots of lube and maybe a glass of wine. Express your concerns about sex and pain associated with it to DH. Tell him he has to treat your new body like you're a virgin the first time.
  
  Good luck!

  

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• nolababybaby member

  June 2015

  I'm 5 weeks pp and am also a mess. I had to have my stitches replaced at 3 weeks, and several have come out again. I'm not sure I'll ever heal. Going back to doctor tomorrow to try silver nitrate to cauterize it, but I hear it's dreadfully painful. I just feel broken.
  
  I hope you start feeling better soon! Recovery is the worst!!!!

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