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Has anyone else had a c section and totally gone off food and not felt the urge to poo either I’m 4 days post section and I’m not in pain still passing urine and gas etc but I just don’t know if it’s normal as it’s my first section.

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Didn’t fully go off food but just struggled to eat with my first because it was an emergency and I was under general anaesthetic but you do need to push yourself to eat otherwise the longer you wait, that first poo will hurt so bad and I don’t know if you’re wanting to breastfeed but not eating makes producing milk harder so please push yourself to eat.

I’ve been eating more now and I’ve tried the syrup they send home to help you poo and that isn’t helping so now onto orange juice etc I’m 6 days postpartum tomorrow so trying everything to poo funnily enough I’m not having constipation pain though. If this doesn’t work I think I’ll have to buy laxatives or stool softeners

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