Hi...I'm new here. I hope I am posting in the right section. Let me introduce myself. I go by the name shine85. I had my baby in October and she is now nine weeks old. And extremely beautiful. This is my first baby...and because of my traumatic recovery period, I'm not sure I want more.
I had a vaginal delivery. Failed ventouse, forceps in the end. The doctor gave me an episiotomy, knowing that I was against this. Anyway, about give days later my stitches got infected and I was given antibiotics. A week after this, I went for a review only to be told that my stitches had burst and I was left with a gaping wound. To cut a long story short, here I am, almost ten weeks after the birth, still not better. I've competed ten courses of antibiotics. I finally saw a gynae, who said I had skin granulation tissue. It's very pink, red, sore and stings so much. I try to keep it clean as possible and use water when I go toilet. On top of this, I have a horrible yellowish discharge. Swabs revealed it was thrush, but treatment for that didn't work. The gynae then took another swab and those results came back negative. I don't understand what this discharge is.
I'm due to see the gynae again in 2 weeks, after which a decision will be made. As for now, I'm just feed up. It's wrong to look into your baby's eyes when she's asking for milk, crying, and being in too much pain to move a fast as you'd like. I just want my body to go back to normal, but it seems like I have another long road in front of me. Will I ever heal? I get upset when I read about people who gave birth at a similar time as I did and they're out and about living their normal lives and here I an who gets tired after five minutes of standing/walking.
Sorry for the downer of a post. Any help/experiences/advice would be appreciated. Thank you.
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shine85 · 29/12/2012 15:06
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