Cesarean Section Pain

A few days after.

Cesarean section pain. Support your stomach. The first week after your c section you can expect to feel some numbness and soreness at the incision site. Tips for healing after a c section.

Hold your belly when you sneeze cough or laugh to keep it still. Whether a cesarean delivery is planned or unexpected it often comes with a longer recovery time and you re also likely to have some back pain. You have pain at the location of your former c section incision and the surrounding area there s puckering or dimpling along the scar from your surgery you ve had an mri or x ray review but nothing shows up to.

Pain is usually temporary and sometimes reversible. Also call your provider immediately if you have. They can decide what they want to take and if they re going to take.

Patients have more control as well. Some studies for example have found that 60 percent of women have some pain in the incision 24 weeks after delivery. It s normal for your scar to be slightly raised puffy and even darker than your normal skin tone so don t be alarmed.

Redness swelling or pus oozing from the incision site pain around the site fever of more than 100 4 f 38 c bad smelling discharge from the vagina heavy vaginal bleeding redness or swelling in your. Though the following signs are a pretty good indicator that something isn t right. But the following symptoms warrant a call to your doctor because they could signal an infection.

They re not left feeling like their only option is a narcotic pain med after c section. Menstrual type bleeding past the first four days after delivery or bleeding that comes back after slowing heavy bleeding at any time or bleeding with clots and cramping if you soak two pads an hour for two hours straight. Severe or persistent.