Episiotomy opened

[HopeAndJoy16]

I'm now 5 weeks postnatal and had a normal birth but with an episiotomy. I thought it had healed well despite needing antibiotics at 6 days due to an infection. However I had a look this morning and the episiotomy has opened at the top, so it's like my vaginal opening is really gaping it's not painful, there's no discharge and it doesn't look particularly red. Will this heal by itself or do I need to get myself down to the GP? I was only there yesterday so I feel a bit daft phoning again!

Did you look at yourself post birth? I felt like my vag opening was mahoosive for months after birth (because it was) it was disgusting. 18 months on and it's only vaguely looking normal now. My episiotomy healed well, but it still looked like I'd been gutted.

Umm, it is your vagina. Your vagina is possibly going to be damaged or heal less than optimally. Why in the world would you think it is daft to go to the doctor with this issue? Please don't let your GP to make you feel daft for calling with any issue whatsoever, definitely not this. It is your health and your body, not his/hers.

(If it was happening to me I would have gone to a specialist, not a GP even if I had to do it privately, and would have not considered it an overreaction. Now I am from a different culture where we see specialist doctors for everything so I simply won't trust a GP to deal with a gynecological issue.The GP is there to refer you or fob you off and he is most likely to do the latter, unfortunately)

Yep I looked the other week and it all seemed to be healing well, no gaping. I can actually see where it should sit together ando where it's opened up. I'm only asking cause Ive read previously that women have been told it will heal itself??

Definitely go to the GP and get them to look at it. They'll be used to looking at things like this what with the 6 week postnatal checks they do.