Okay, 42. I had my 6 week postpartum check-up yesterday. Everything's looking pretty good.
My umbilical hernia is healing and I didn't need a referral to a specialist to talk about surgery right now. I might in the future if it doesn't keep healing or if it gets worse. But it's doing okay for now. My belly button does NOT look how it used to. I sort of have an innie/outie where it doesn't pop all the way out, but it isn't all the way in, either. No bikinis for me. But my intestines aren't pouring out of my body and that's what's important.
I got the green light for exercising. My abdominal muscles have come back together and so long as I don't over do it before my hernia finishes healing, I can work out again. Yay!
No more "pelvic rest," either. My lady parts are recovered enough to start practicing babymaking once more.
I asked the midwife if my lady parts would ever look the same again. Basically, she said no. Right now, I barely recognize myself down there. It looks like something has forced itself out of my birth canal-- which it has. She has. And everything's different. The midwife said it will continue to get better and look more and more like what I'm used to, but it will probably never look completely how it did before the baby.
"You just can't push a baby out of your vagina and expect it to look exactly how it did before you got pregnant."
So, no more closeups while I'm filming my amateur pornos. Just kidding. My point is, who cares, right? It's a mark of mommyhood. One that no one but me and my husband will see. I have mourned the passing of my former lady parts and I am at peace with the new me.
Anyway, I got a prescription for the mini pill (birth control pill that doesn't contain estrogen). I still reeeeeeeeally want an IUD, but we're going to try the mini pill for now. The downside is that you have to take the pill at the same exact time every day or it doesn't work, and I have a horrible memory for that kind of remember-to-do-this-precisely-on-time sort of thing. So I'll be setting an alarm on my phone and hoping that prompts me to take the pill on time. Otherwise, hello Elise #2! (Grandmas and Grandpas, DO NOT JINX ME INTO HAVING ANOTHER BABY!!!)
That mini-pill is fantastic. I've been on it since the 6 week mark as well. And like you, have a horrible memory for that stuff (probably how I got pregnant in the first place). Setting a phone alarm is the ticket. And if you turned into a crazy person in the past on the pill, this one is not as bad. You will still however PMS without the physical presence of a period. Joys.
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"You just can't push a baby out of your vagina and expect it to look exactly how it did before you got pregnant."
ReplyDeletebullcrap! :(
hey, who cares. i bet they are beautiful now in an entirely different way. :)
"You just can't push a baby out of your vagina and expect it to look exactly how it did before you got pregnant."
ReplyDeleteOut of all of the disgusting things that you've talked about on this blog this is the first moment I've thought, "Holy *****! No way am I doing that!"
No one tells you that part!