Episiotomy.. how long did it take you to fully recover?

[ShootingStar]

Thanks Relle. Will see how i go. Im not planning on having another for a year or 2 so hopefully my mind settles a little by then.
Still feeling quite painful down there. Seems to come on at night the worst and seems to be worse now than it was since AF is here. Im having a salt bath every night now which is helping.
I think if Jesse wasnt so cute, id be completely turned off having any more kids at all

[DoulaRelle]

Kellxx - I know exactly what you mean. I actually have still been traumatised by my 1st birth right up until about 2 months ago. Giving birth the 2nd time and having a positive experience was the start of my emotional healing, and I have since been able to go through and deal with the birth. I even got a copy of my hospital notes as I had alot of unanswered questions after going into shock and not being able to remember the first 2 hours of my sons life.

This was in no way related to my Obs or even the midwifes, just something I needed to do in order to come to terms with the way things happened and also to understand why it had such an impact on my post natally.

I do remember that when I had AF it was certainly worse - my obs told me it was the blood loss that caused alot of the aching and that made sense with AF. At night I think it is worse cause you have ususally been on your feet all day, so it has a cumulative effect iykwim.

Anyway, sorry to ramble, just wanted to let you know that there is a light at the end of the tunnel!