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4 weeks postpartum - what’s your vagina like?

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user1466068383 · 16/02/2021 15:54

I’m 4 weeks postpartum tomorrow and wondering how well my vagina is healing & what’s ‘normal’.
I had a ‘tiny baby’ 5lb 13oz, a quick labour - 6 hours and quick second stage. No intervention or tearing, apart from the midwives having to briefly manually help open the vagina a little right at the end, m to let the babies head out - as the muscles were too tight.
Been doing tonnes of kegels, and can happily stop my pee mid stream so no incontinence issues thank god. Pelvic floor definitely feels much weaker, but I feel like it’ll tone up fine.
What I’m really worried about is feeling like my vagina is more open than before. Is anyone else feeling this - when is meant to have fully shrunk back to the size it will be?
I did a bit of inspecting myself - and would struggle to fit two fingers in, I’d have to push to get more then one in. But everything feels a bit squisher, and I definitely don’t feel as tight as I used to.
Am I worrying over nothing, I know it’s early days and I have a 6 week check up with a physio to make sure all’s well, but DH and I used to have an amazing sex life and I’m absolutely terrified it’ll never be the same again.
Am I expecting too much too soon - should I just relax and wait for everything to return to normal ?

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beansprout55 · 20/12/2021 01:02

Did it go back to normal?! I'm worried about this too x

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