The postpartum mother, how was it for your body?

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Only a few people discuss about what the mother feels like and her symptoms after birth. Everyone is always focused on the baby. 
What is your postpartum story!

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Horrible. I had a horrible delivery. My OB was way off on my daughter's weight. She was 10 lbs on the dot, not the eight my doctor expected. I needed an episiotomy and three suction devices to get her out. I lost half my blood volume and needed 40 stitches. It took an hour to repair the damage. I was destroyed.
My baby was so bruised from the hours of ramming into my pubic bone; she was hideous. And HUNGRY. She took 20mls of formula her first night. More donated breast milk the next day. 
I was so depleted by delivery, my milk took days to come in, and my HUNGRY baby ripped my nipples up. 
It was not a pleasant time, but I recovered, my daughter is now an adorable 3.5 yr old, and I breastfed for two years.
My new OB offered my a c-section after hearing my story. I'll definitely do it next time.

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All My Pregnancy Symptoms Went Away Instantly.! But Once Breast Milk Kick In Get Prepared Too Look Like Pamela Anderson.!

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My vagina hurt..

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I had this euphoric feeling for weeks. I've never been that happy in my entire life. I would stay up with my son, breastfeeding changing his diapers, cuddling him. During the day when my son was a few days old my mom and sister came over to visit. They of course wanted to hold him. We were sitting on the couch, my sister was holding him next to me and as soon as I sat down I started to fall asleep sitting there like immediately couldn't keep my eyes open the whole time I was taking care of him I had no idea how tired I was until someone else was holding him

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I was just sore mostly my stomach and back since the muscles had been stretched out for so long. Breastfeeding was a challenge but I was able to do it for 16 months.

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I had a crash c section so recovery was hard as operation was very rushed. I was bruised internally and outside, it hurt to walk, hard to get up. I bleed quite a lot. But as the weeks went past it did get easier. I recovered well considering.

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I didn't have much problems with recovery.  I was a little sore but my upper body actually felt like it was hit by a truck the day after since I pushed for 1hr and a half.  I was not prepared for the swelling, lol, if you can avoid it don't look!  I thought it would never be the same but it did shrink back after a while... Sorry if that's tmi!  I mainly felt like I over did it at a workout.  I was also induced since my water broke but had no contractions.  If you get induced prepare for swelling and water retention.  It took about a week for that to go away but it wasn't a big deal, mainly just made me sweat a lot:-/.

The postpartum mother, how was it for your body?

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