Anybody else have a stretched vagina after giving birth?

[Jaycee]

Um, perhaps you may be better suited to the adults only area??

[helle]

Um, perhaps you may be better suited to the adults only area??

I was just sitting here thinking how wonderful it was that this thread got bought up. Everyone speaks about what your body goes through during pregnancy and labour but no one ever mentions the things that happen to your body after you have given birth and the different ways everyone goes about coping with it.

Alot of woman are left feeling a bit clueless and wondering if what they are going through and is happening to their body is normal.

I think this thread is just as relevent as the EWCM & different vaginal discarges talk that goes on in the TTC threads.

[BellyBelly]

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[Akira]

Um, perhaps you may be better suited to the adults only area??

In my experience, women who give birth are adults. My response was trying to show that with the right attitude and partner the 'negative' changes can be accommodated.

[Jaycee]

Well appears my response was not taken well from a couple of people, perhaps i shall keep it to myself from now on

[Akira]

Well appears my response was not taken well from a couple of people, perhaps i shall keep it to myself from now on

I wasn't offended by your comment, I just felt that we are all adults and my input about how we coped might help. I hope I didn't offend you, if I did, I'm sorry. I think we should leave it there.

[Bea06]

Hi,

As the person who started this thread and asked the question I am kind of bothered goodness gracious by the suggestion that this sort of stuff is somehow too rude or something to be talked about. And that it should only be a topic for "adults". I was deeply traumatised by my birth experience and the fact that afterwards my vagina was quite frankly, completely and utterly ruined. It is so stretched that I can no longer swim, walk (without feeling like my insides are going to fall out), wear tampons properly or enjoy sex like I used to. Given that my child is now almost 3, although prolapse surgery is on the cards once I finish my family, I have I have come to accept that it will never be the same again.

I was deeply shocked that this occurred as I had never once heard it mentioned until AFTER it happened to me. If I had have known for a nano second that it would be the case I would have had a ceaser in a heartbeat.

If women can't ask this sort of stuff on Belly Belly where can we ask it? It is a deeply personal and quite upsetting topic for me to talk about. I really appreciate the women that take the time to reply and share their personal stories (sex and all), involving their experience post baby.

Thank you to all and sundry who have replied! It is much appreciated!

[paradise lost]

Bea I'm so sorry things haven't resolved for you. I have a friend who just had her pelvic repair done (though she actually had all 3 of hers by c-section, so i'm not sure if it can "save" the pelvic floor...?) and she's feeling so much better. She had a partial prolapse for about a year after #1, then after #2 she had a full-prolapse in recovery and was rushed back to theatre to have it put back, but even afterwards she had to wear a pessary to stop her cervix slipping into the vaginal opening. After #3 she had the gynae sent to her bed in the maternity ward to discuss her repair, and had it done 9 months later to have time to heal from the section). She called me from home the day she left the hospital and said "Hey Bec i just climbed the stairs and i'm not dragging a rock around in my pants anymore!" Her recovery seems to be going great and she's SO much happier in herself.

So don't lose hope, i'm o sorry this happened to you, but it can be repaired when you're ready.

Huge

Bx

[BellyBelly]

Guys, there are a few brand new posters in this thread and one had to be edited due to very graphic nature, which you wouldn't have seen as a mod had to edit it. I didn't do the editing myself, but I trust that if something had to be edited, it was absolutely required. We allow and encourage this discussion on BellyBelly, of course we do.