internal stiches ? vaginal delivery? painfull sex?

Question

6 weeks ago I had vaginal deliveryvand an episiotomy. external stiches have fallen.i eanted to know how do iI understand if my internal stiches have fallen? we had sex for the first time after birth and ot was painfull. was it bcs of the stiches? or maybe just painfull and it is normal?

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Sex was painful for me too and that was 9 weeks pp. it took a few time and lots of lube and it got way better.

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My internal stitches dissolved before my external ones but it was like 4 months before I had pain-free sex.

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Sex only just stopped being painful a few months ago. I’d say, a year pp. we didn’t have sex until 6 mos pp at all bc it was soooo painful. It happens. Go slow, use lots of lube, you be on top are things I found helped

internal stiches ? vaginal delivery? painfull sex?

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