Here we are – week 6. Generally speaking, this is the point that most women are considered fully physically recovered from childbirth, both vaginal or cesarean. As you can imagine, c-section recovery is a bit more…involved than recovery from a vaginal delivery. You can read my thoughts on the initial recovery from a c-section here.
While recovery is different for everyone, after both of my deliveries I turned a corner at exactly one month. For every bit of that month I was acutely aware that I had recently had surgery; moving or turning in a certain way would cause twinges of pain, and getting out of bed in the middle of the night was a long, slow process (which seemed infinitely long when accompanied by a crying, hungry baby). The sharpest source of pain was not my incision itself: the actual incision site is pretty numb. Rather, the abdominal muscles to the right and left of the incision, just over my hips, were continuously sore.
But suddenly, at the one-month mark, I no longer felt like a surgery patient. I could pick up my daughter without caution, get out of bed like a normal person, and go about my everyday life at a normal pace.
So now I’m no longer recovering from a cesarean section – I’m now recovering from six-ish months of limited physical activity.
Time to hit the road!
When did you turn the corner in your post-partum recovery? Let me know with a comment or message!
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