Constipation after childbirth... how long?

[Butterflyrosebud]

I was wondering if anyone had experience of this? Not really something discussed in real life!

I had my daughter 6 weeks ago, only a second degree tear and healed very quickly. I had IBS D before having the baby but now it seems to have gone the other way. It can be very painful when I do go and I have been taking lactulose which helps. Just wondering if this ever stops or having a baby has just generally slowed things down somehow?

I had every single drug available during labour and she was back to back but I thought the affects of that would have worn off by now!

I had this but fibogel sorted it out quite quickly (within a fortnight)

Oh lord I had this with both mine, it was bloody awful - after dc2 it honestly felt like I was trying to poo out a tennis ball 😫. Anyway. I only had gas & air so don't think it's necessarily a drug related problem (or at least not exclusively) - my midwife said it's just a side effect of everything being all beaten up and swollen after birth. Pretty sure it was 6-8 weeks before it went away iirc. You have my sympathies op, it's horrible!

Are you on iron? Iron can make it worse.

I had the same inc second degree tear.

I think it has greatly improved at nearly 8 weeks pp and then maybe by 12 weeks or so everything was as if was before childbirth.

No shit for 10 days with DC1. Terrible egg sized haemeroids (sp). Torn and stitched. Good luck is all I can say.

I slipped a disc trying to poo after DD was born, 6 weeks of being unable to sit and barely able to move was not conducive to breast feeding! The constipation was helped by lactulose and fibrogel but I still have some 'issues'

Nearly everyday I learn something new and terrible about childbirth! They didn’t tell me this at my antenatal classes Good luck OP

Not taking any iron. Eating lots of fibre...

I don’t know what’s worse tbh, this or previous IBS. It’s getting better but has been so painful and worse than giving birth!

Mine was gone by a month but dear god, way worse than labour (and I had a back-to-back delivery of a 10lb9oz baby that’s left me with 2 sorts of prolapse. Seriously worse than that. Next time I will drink lactoluse throughout labour!)

No poo for 2 weeks after DD. Midwife looked at me in horror and ordered me (no joke) to get a laxative. Which I took for the next two weeks or so.

As it was, I wasn't all that concerned because I'd had stints of three weeks zilch during pregnancy (made me wonder where my body was actually stuffing all the food), no haemorroids (the birth gave me some just when I thought I'd made it lol) and I was properly healed by the time I had a poo 😊. As it turned out, I think it was just terribly slow transit and it continued for about 2 months or more if I recall correctly. Hormonal for me because I get it at ovulation and period.

It'll clear up by itself in good time.