I gave birth 7 weeks ago. A VBA2C!! YAY!! (so this is my first vaginal birth) But... I tore pretty bad inside and out. (I would still do a VBAC again even this being the case!) They gave me a general to stitch me up and I was on pain killers for a while. I am a runner, so at 5 weeks and 5 days I felt really good and decided to go for a little jog, pushing the pram, just home from the markets, only 800m or so. The next day I ran 3.1km, the next day 3.4km, had a day off, the next day 5.4km, the day after felt a little pain so had the day off and the day after that was in so much pain that I had to go back on my pain killers.

I had about a week off, and then did a simiar lot of running. I then power-walked about 4km the day after the pain came back bad, and about 2.5km the day after that as well (it was there a little bit throughout the week after my runs, but not too bad), it is now two days since I have done anything and it is still painful. BTW it doesn't hurt at all when I run, just when I have cooled down afterwards. Sometimes it feels like a burning pain.

I have been to my GP and he says all the stitches are healed really well and you can hardly see any scarring. I have some green vaginal loss, heaver on days that I run, which started only when I started running. He has taken a swab and I have to call on Tuesday to see if there in an infection. (My bleeding slowed down rapidly at 4 weeks and was all but gone by 5 weeks).

Has anyone else had this problem? I feel like I healed quicker from my C-S! If you tore inside and / or out, how long did it take you to feel right again? And don't even mention sex, that just scares me to death!

Any comments would be greatly appreciated.