How long did it take you to feel better postpartum?

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What has your recovery process been like? Did you have a vaginal or cesarean birth? How are you feeling? When was the worse time? ||Poll Question:|| How long did it take you to feel pretty normal?

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It took me a good 4 months to really feel back to "normal". My recovery was one thing after another.

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Took about 3 weeks to feel normal after my c section. I mean, it's a new, sleepless normal. But physically I was back to normal.

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3 months PP I'm not feeling normal at all 😓

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It took me two months to feel normal again just in terms of being able to walk and start to exercise without discomfort. Sex is still not the same at 4 months PP. The worst was the first 3-4 weeks. I had a 2nd degree tear.

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I had a vaginal birth with some tearing that required stitches. I was SO sore. As the soreness was almost gone (5 weeks pp give or take) I was trying to get up into a barstool and my foot slipped. Thankfully I landed in the seat. But I came down pretty hard on my lady bits. The soreness started all over again! After that, it took probably 3-4 weeks for everything to completely go away

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my daughter is 10 months old and i still don't feel normal

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4 months PP .. Don't feel normal. Excessive anxiety, ambivalence towards husband, mildly depressed.

My hormones are whack.

I haven't had sex in about 4 1/2 months.

Gained a lot of weight during pregnancy and hate my body. Struggling to get diet and exercise in order.

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Define feeling better...

By 2 weeks PP,  the soreness in my lady parts and the bleeding were gone.  I stopped taking a stool softener for fear of busting a stitch.  I had some tearing and they gave me a few stitches (they didn't tell me how many).

We tried to have sex 4 weeks PP and it burned so badly that I made my husband stop.  He even said that he thinks he felt the self dissolving stitches.  We tried again at 6 weeks.  6 weeks in,  it was uncomfortable but not enough for us to stop.

I have felt fine since 2 weeks PP but sex is still uncomfortable at 7 weeks PP.

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I had an unmedicated vagina delivery with a small second degree tear. I took ipubrofen for a few days after delivery to help with the pain. Everything down there just felt super swollen. The ice packs in the hospital felt SOOOO good. Peeing and pooping (happened 4 days pp) wasn't really painful at all! I did take colace for the first two weeks though to help with that. I probably felt almost normal around 6 weeks and felt really good at 8. My vagina was sore for probably the first week and the stitches felt like they were going to tear every time I laughed or coughed or sneezed for like a week and a half. It was the worst! I'm 3 months postpartum now and I have some scaring from my stitches. It makes the opening of my vagina a little sensitive, but my midwife said with massaging it will eventually feel fine.

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My biggest thing was the bleeding. I hated it and had to wait until that decreased. Once it did I started working out. I also made a point to get dressed every day after I was released from the hospital. Works wonders for the way you feel. 
So, about 6 weeks. I'm pregnant again so we'll see this time.