Disappearing period pain after childbirth?

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I'd heard that period pain is much diminished after having a baby, and this certainly was the case with me. It was almost as if I'd used up all that discomfort during my first birth (my contractions feeling much like bad peroid pain).

I was just interested in whether everybody else found the same?

Does anyone know why this happens, and does it depend at all on mode of birth - i.e. does it still work if you had an ECS?

I guess if you have endometriosis it would still carry on .

peroid pain, what's peroid pain?

I thought it did, and was so , but I was wrong. Mine stayed away the entire time I was nursing. It returned 14 months later to my . Hope yours stays gone.

When I had a period last - the only one since 9 month old born it was horrible for days.
Think it was my womb sorting itself out!

Not uncommon

Apparently some period pain can be caused by the stuff passing through the cervix and causing contraction-like pain

but after having a baby, the cervix is much wider (think of a slit rather than a small tiny circle) so stuff can pass without causing contractions

or something

No it hasn't disappeared for me. I had an ECS.

I had a natural birth a few years ago and my periods are definitely less painful now. Before the birth I couldn't cope without painkillers but now I very rarely need them any more. I used to get severe cramping and back pain. Now the cramping is much milder but the back pain is still about the same.

Yes, the pain has gone completely. Which is generally a good thing, but I also don't get the signs that it's coming. So I avoid swimming for the week before it's due, just in case!

I had horrific period pain until I had DS. he was born by planned CS under a general- I go nowhere near labour.

Since DS I have no period pain at all, even with a non-hormonal coil fitted. Its wonderful and hardly seems like a real period after years of agony.

No idea why it happened- am just very very grateful!!

Sorry to hear yours hasn't eased after a C-section thedollshouse.

Sorry that should read- "I got nowhere near labour", not "I go nowhere near labour"!!

Only had two since birth but it's certainly one hell of a lot better although I still felt like a limp teatowel for the first couple days. Not needed any painkillers let alone passing out with pain like I used to.

Annoyingly, this means that the patronising docs (only two, luckily) who told me it would all get better once I had a baby were right. At least I told the first one that that was hardly going to help in the middle of my GCSEs...

Thanks morningpaper, I thought it might be something like that.
Sounds like it varies a lot with different women.

LOL notcitrus, One of my teachers told me exactly the same when I had to leave her class in pain one day. Didn't seem like a lot of help at the time!

mummmee - sorry yours has come back . I had a gap of 4 years between dd1 and dd2, it didn't come back in that time. Now I've got a Mirena, so it's probably not the same anyway.

CuppaTeaJanice - did you know that you can use a mooncup or similar in anticipation of your period? So if you wanted to go swimming you could use one just in case, that sort of thing.

mine was awful before I had kids and now I certainly still get it but have more periods where I feel better than before but I do get the odd one still where it really hurts.
Before kids they were like that every month messing up my digestion and causing awful cramps now its prob like that every second or third one.

since i had dd (normal birth) have not had to take any feminax for period pain in the last 2 yrs. before childbirth i used to suffer with it, to the point of vomiting with pain and completely unable to do anything other than lie down with a hot water bottle and take painkillers.

i just put it down to a higher pain threshold having experienced labour. pain threshold in general seems higher.

But i do think the theory of a wider cervix is right. Although some cramping is caused by the uterus contracting to expel the built up lining of it.