I'm asking for a friend who gave birth 3 weeks ago. She had a vacuum extraction, a small graze needing 2 stitches and a labial tear needing 5 stitches. She is having considerable pain and pressure in her pelvic floor, peri and labia. This happens after she urinates, when she needs to have a bowel movement and she can't stand or walk for more than about 20 minutes before the pain and pressure gets so much she needs to sit down to relieve it.
When she does pelvic floor exercises she says she can feel her pelvic floor muscles tremor, for a lack of a better way to describe it.

I have had four babies and some considerable tears, 3rd and fourth degree, but have never experienced what she is describing. I was just wondering if any one else has and what it was and how long until it may ease up for her? I think it is worth getting checked out before her 6 week check as it just doesn't sound quite normal to me, but then maybe I was just lucky?