How's your c-section scar 'x' months on?

[Rosey]

If you feel like sharing I am curious as to how others c-section scars have healed and what they now feel like, however many months or years down the track.

Do you have pain, itching, soreness, numbness, discoloring, lumps, divots, raised sections, thick scar, thin scar, sensitivity etc or maybe your scar feels just like you belly before your scar.

[Rosey]

My scar is 18 months old. I have no pain or sensitivity in it, my daughter happily jumps on my stomach. Still slightly numb along the actual scar. The scar itself has started to go silver on one end, the other end is still a little red. It's crooked. I also have a definite divot the entire length of the scar. One in which I can put my fingers into. It's not belly fat, I have no overhang, I'm guessing its muscle. That slightly concerns me, wondering if that's normal.

[Ellie-oop]

I only had my little girl 4 months ago, but my scar doesn't hurt it's just numb.. But also gets itchy! My scar is like a perfect little line.. Still quite red/purple!

[Charlotte91]

Mine is nearly 3 years old and finally starting to heal at the ends. I have a skin condition where things like that always go keloided. So, it's pretty large and red, but it'll heal slowly over the next couple years to nothing. My appendix scar took 5 years, so this one will take a bit longer. No feeling around it whatsoever.

[Starfish]

Mine is 8 months old. The area directly around the scar is still pretty numb, but otherwise I feel pretty normal. The scar is white and thin.

[STARRYSKY]

my scar is 4 - almost 5 years old, thin, silvery, still get pulling, stretching pain if I move the wrong way, one end is thicker than the other and is higher up (like a lopsided smile) I occasionally get ingrown hairs in the scar but cant feel them as it is still numb (about 2cm either side, up and down) when I would get AF it would get red, itchy and almost like the muscles under there are swollen...
PG now with no.2, getting a bit worried as feeling lots of pulling in my scar area....

[Rosey]

Can I ask how is the stomach muscle? Do you have a divot where your scar is or is your stomach muscle flat all the way along now ?

[Phteven]

7 years on it's pretty much invisible.

[Arimeh]

Can I ask how is the stomach muscle? Do you have a divot where your scar is or is your stomach muscle flat all the way along now ?

I can't answer that at nearly 39 weeks pregnant - I don't have any flat bits anywhere LOL

[Rosey]

I can't answer that at nearly 39 weeks pregnant - I don't have any flat bits anywhere LOL

He he

[Heaven]

Yeah, it's flat, it doesn't go in at all. I think that's because it's down so low. If it was in the crease sort of bit at the bottom of my tummy then I think I would have that overhang bit that people talk about but it's much lower than that so I don't.

[~Kim~]

Same as Heaven's. Mine is very very low.

[Rosey]

Thanks ladies. For me It's not a belly overhang it's like inside underneath the scar when I push on it. It feels empty along the scar. Like my muscle has been tucked in. Hard to explain. Maybe, hopefully, it's fat I should get it checked.

It's nice to hear that for some of you it's no longer noticeable. Also comforting to hear that some stretching discomfort in pregnancy can be normal, ill have to remember that for later on.

[STARRYSKY]

you know, my muscles underneath feel ropey on either side, like they bunched it all together and then blanket stitched it all up, if that makes sense? I know what you mean about it feeling kinda empty right on the scar..

[Jennifer13]

I don't scar well, so 7 1/2 years on it's still pretty obvious. But it's raised and white (same colour as the rat of my belly), so not overly unattractive. Not that anyone is looking at it (I can't even see it under the belly atm!).

I never had any issues under the skin, with muscles, numbness, etc. it healed well and quickly. But since there are variations in technique from ob to ob (and c/s to c/s, depending on the mum and the situation), it's quite hard to tell what you can expect. I also did a postnatal class for at least six mths afterwards, which worked on strengthening the core muscles that would have been affected by pg and the c/s.

[No.5]

My scar is 11 months old and I forget its there most days.

Occasionally do I get a pulling feeling, sometimes for a few days at a time.

Mine is a thin white line. I do (still) have one tiny bit of 'scab' on one part - yet to come off & I don't want to pick it off. Not sure why it is still there...