Assisted delivery

April
I needed to have an assisted delivery as my little girl wasn't coming down and was back to back. I ended up having the epidural and a forceps delivery. It's been 6 weeks pp, my feet are only now slightly less swollen and I still have a podgy belly. I still look pregnant and ad I'm breast feeding I would have thought I'd have gone down much more by now. 
Are these symptoms of the assisted delivery?  
What are your experiences?