How to Be a Million Pound Mum by Hazel Cushion

Keep up this practice for as long as needed, though it’s usually most needed in the first week. You can even freeze pads “padsicles” (pads soaked in witch hazel/water then popped in the freezer). Place that ice into those handy mesh undies the hospital gives you, and wear it as long as you can tolerate. Yep, put them right on whatever feels swollen. Graves’ general guidelines for staying comfortable and promoting healing during those first few weeks. And, though it can vary in duration, everyone can expect a few days of heavy bleeding, followed by a period-type flow for another week it’s also normal to have light bleeding for up to 4-6 weeks after delivery. That said, everyone - women who’ve delivered vaginally or with a C-section - will have a fair amount of discomfort in the earliest days. Just for clarity’s sake, these guidelines apply primarily to vaginal births C-sections involve a different healing process. If you have a 4th degree tear (which goes into the muscles of your rectum), it may take closer to 3-4 weeks to heal. So, if you don’t tear at all or have a first degree tear, you might feel completely normal within a week or two.

“Second-time moms often have a quicker recovery because they don’t push for as long thanks to the ‘starter baby.’” “If your baby weighed six pounds and came out after 20 minutes of pushing, you’ll likely have less trauma down there than if you had a big baby who got his shoulder stuck, and you pushed for three hours,” Graves said. Rachel Graves, who practices family medicine and obstetrics in Portland, OR. How much time? This depends, according to Dr. HOW ON EARTH DOES YOUR VAGINA RECOVER FROM SUCH INSANITY?įirst of all, know that what feels raw and impossibly sore the first few days will heal in time. Your beautiful baby is here, and somehow, you got her out of your body through a teeny tiny hole! Bravo, woman.

How to Be a Million Pound Mum by Hazel Cushion