experience with forceps delivery / episiotomy. How did you recover?

So I had an episiotomy and tore with my first and then split all the stitches my first week pp so my healing probably ended up taking longer than yours will. I only had a 2 week pp visit scheduled but I was also in there a couple times the first week because of the tearing. I never went to a pelvic floor therapist but I wish I did. I think it would have helped a lot because I still peed if I didn’t have my legs closed when I laughed, sneezed or coughed. I tried sex at 6 weeks but immediately I was like noooope things are still healing. I don’t think I could comfortably have sex until 9-10 weeks pp. you will know pretty quickly if you are healed enough and definitely expect to ease back slowly and gently.

Hi hun, exercise might be causing the soreness. I worked out around the same time as you after my epsiotomy and was sore for a bit. As for intimacy, I didn’t get intimate with my husband until about 3 months in when I started to feel normal again and was no longer in pain. Try to do yoga/ stretches instead of cardio or intense work out and use lots of lube during sex

Hey I didn’t experience an episiotomy or forceps delivery, but did experience the heaviness around my vagina. It was a bladder prolapse, and I worked with a pelvic floor therapist to correct it. A heads up, jogging specifically can make it worse. Try to find a different form of aerobic exercise.
But also no pressure to exercise at all — I definitely did not / could not at 5 weeks . Even walking was difficult then, but that’s just me.

Get a referral to a physio if you can x