Sex and stitches whats the average

[angie1984]

My DD is nearly 6 weeks old, she is my first and i was wondering what the average number of stitches people got post labour as when i told a couple of ladies i know that i had had around 30 (25 internal and 5 external) they looked horrified and one assumed i had had a stage 4 tear. It was only a two but quite deep apparently and i was also wondering how long after birth did most people have sex for the first time, i'm not quite ready yet though DH is ready to go.

One long stitch after episiotomy and forceps and we waited 8 months

One long stitch (but 2 tears and an extended episiotomy, so extensive!!). We’d had sex by about 8 weeks I think, but it was painful. All healed now (9 months pp, and until 7 months I still had a feeling of tightness and itching in my episiotomy scar), but pretty numb internally due to nerve damage. Thank god clitorises are out the way of the birth canal