I had a fissure after I had Alex, and he was a c/s. It was just SO painful.

What I found helped, was heaps and heaps and heaps of water, like 3L a day, more if bf, as well as at least 2 apples and 2 bananas a day. No dairy or yogurt or icecream, because they tend to make the stools harder. Definitely metamucil. Nothing that "binds you up" if you know what I mean, just stuff to make it all soft.

It took me about 6 months to finally get rid of it. With DS #2, I asked the anaesthetist for laxatives before I even had the c/s, because I'd had the fissure with DS #1. He gave me them no problems. Apparently it's quite common, because your body doesn't really eat or drink properly for up to 72 hours during labour, birth and recovery, so what is actually in the anus gets very hard and dry, and that's what causes the fissure when you eventually go to do #2s.

Best wishes.