The vagina can undergo changes after childbirth, especially when you give birth normally. When you give birth normally, the baby will come out through the cervix and vagina.
The vagina should also be large enough and flexible so that the baby can get out. Often the skin between the vagina and anus, perineum, can be torn or cut by a doctor to ease the process of childbirth.
So, what changes occur in the vagina after childbirth?
vaginal Landscape
Your vagina will look wider than ever and will "feel" looser, smoother and "open". This is normal and swelling as well as "open" will decrease a few days after your baby is born.
Your vagina may also not be a complete return to form as before delivery, but you need not worry. Because there is a simple solution that can help.
Solution: You can do Kegel exercises regularly to restore the strength of the muscles of the vagina and pelvic floor muscles.
Drought In Vagina
It is normally experienced in women after childbirth. Vaginal dryness is caused by a decrease in the hormone estrogen in the body than during pregnancy. In women who are breastfeeding, estrogen levels will be lower compared with not breastfeeding, so the drought will be more pronounced. When you've stopped breastfeeding and your menstrual cycle back to normal, vaginal dryness usually do not experience again.
Solution: Vaginal Dryness menenggarai on condition of pain when having sex. To fix this, you can help with the lubricant.
Pain In Stitches Used Wounds
Pain in the vaginal area commonly experienced after giving birth and usually will improve 6-12 weeks after giving birth.
Solution: Again Kegel exercises are also recommended to reduce pain. Be sure to clean the wound stitches you every day and if you feel severe pain, you can ask your doctor to prescribe painkillers are safe for breastfeeding women.
Pain during sex
There is no right time or the right to re-initiate sex after childbirth.
But do not hurry. If you feel pain during sex because of vaginal dryness.
Solution: You can work around this acknowledgment is made to use a lubricant. In addition, do not forget to use contraception after delivery, because it is possible you can come back pregnant 3 weeks after you give birth.
