Hello Everyone. First time posting but I’ve been reading ever since the birth of my daughter and found so much support - so thank you already.
My daughter (first child) was born nearly 10 weeks ago - episiotomy due to ventouse delivery - and I’ve just come back from my GP postnatal check-up. I thought my stitches must be healing pretty well as I only took painkillers for a day or two and already within a couple of weeks I had only a little discomfort. Now it only stings when peeing if I've not been drinking enough. However I recently had a tiny bit of blood and I had a look and saw that it was extremely red and looking a bit bloody. GP today said it was granulation, but then more than that she didn’t know what to do or say and was even Googling it in front of me as she didn’t know if she was supposed to refer me to a gynaecologist or not. I said, ‘If you don’t know, please can you refer me anyway’ - better safe than sorry...
Since my GP couldn’t really say much I’m wondering if any of you had the same and what happened on your road to healing (if you were referred/how long it took to heal/if anything really helped the skin to heal for example?).
Thank you in advance. I feel so down about it - I know there’s much worse, but I had such poor care at the hospital during and after my labour that I just really hoped I’d heal up fine and see an end to it all.