Anyone looked down there?!

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I'm 2.5 weeks pp, vaginal with a 2nd degree. I decided to look down there and while the outside looks pretty good (although larger opening...) the inside has me completely freaked out and scared. There's no distinguishable "entrance" 😂
Has anyone else looked? How many weeks? Is it looking normal or unrecognizable?

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I had a 2nd degree and a labial tear. I totally peaked a week into it and it freaked me out but I continued to peak once a week and now at 6 weeks PP it looks pretty normal again😅🤣

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I had a 2nd degree tear. I’m a little over 3 weeks and decided to look a few days ago (I was scared to look any sooner!)
I can’t really tell where the stitches were but I just feel like it looks like I wasn’t stitched up all the way or something 😂 But I’m thinking maybe the opening is just bigger now? It makes me worry about sex and hope it’s just as good! Hoping I’m not loose now or something lol.

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I’m only 8 days PP and I don’t dare to look at my second degree tear... yet. BUT I did look at my butt... yikes. I was in agony after a bowel movement so I needed to see what was going on. Pretty sure the hemorrhoids hurt more than my stitches up vag. 😳

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I had a second degree tear and looked a few days pp before my first bowel movement (which was a milestone that had me in tears because I was so nervous). I pretty much only saw my hemorrhoids because they were so bad but it made me feel better because I could actually see why I was feeling the way I was feeling (pressure and like everything would fall out). I look occasionally now at 5 weeks pp and things look much more normal. My husband also looked and he said I still have some stitches about 1 cm into my vagina. I’m nervous as hell to have sex again!!! I feel like it will hurt!!

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Consider yourselves lucky lol I only had a 2nd degree tear but it was accompanied by a VERY strange perineal bulge... It looked like a ball sack from the back and an extra vagina coming out of my vagina in the front. I'm about 2 weeks 4days pp and its almost gone back to normal. But at 6 weeks pp I have to have the extra skin removed.. So fun.

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Same!!! Lol

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Hell NO! I had a 2nd degree with my first. My best friend told me not to look. Of course me being me...i looked. NOPE! then with my 2nd born he ruined me! 4th degree tear. I DID NOT LOOK...until I got drunk (1 drink 7w after birth hahaha I became a lightweight lol) my god it was worse!!!!! Idk if it was worse because I was drunk or because it was a worse tear lol. This time I didn't need stitches but hell nope I aint looking!!!!!!! Lol

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I looked and everything looked normal but I could see my cervix that was at 3 weeks pp I’m 4.5 now 😅

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I'm two and a half weeks post partum, I had a second degree tear. I was looking multiple times a day in the beginning and now every few days, because I was applying cream to help it heal.
I'm not sure if staying off of my feet, the treatment or a combination of these helped, but this time it seems to have healed up nicely. Well of course it's not 100% yet but getting there.
I'm no longer bruised and swollen, the wound is closed, but my vulva is looking weirdly open and the insides of my vagina are looking exposed. Baby steps, I guess.
I had an episiotomy with my first and I was afraid to look back then, but it wasn't healing anywhere this nicely.

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Had a 3rd degree tear and I’m not looking at it ever. Haha

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