Post C Section Intimacy. Warning: TMI!

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Please shed some light on when you felt able to 'get back to normal' post c section? I know this should be posted in the sex section but I haven't been on MN for 90 days yet so I couldn't.

I am desperate to get things going again with DH and I and I've felt this way since the day I came home from hospital! We tried once but hardly got it in (being an EMCS I thought I would labour naturally and had strengthened my pelvic floor to epic proportions in preparation, now he won't fit!?!?).

It was SO painful and that was at 2 1/2 weeks so do you think by 6 weeks it will stop hurting? I am so needy for his attention and loving and he feels the same!! Ahhh this is torture!

Your stories and experiences please

Jesus there are some sour grapes here

God, so many people on Mumsnet are so fucking weird about women loving and wanting sex.

OP I felt exactly the same as you after all my children. Between my regular high sex drive and the hormonal surge that made my love for my DH skyrocket even higher, I was desperate for it and all over him within days.

After the C-sections DH and I started having (gentle, extremely lubed up) PIV again after about 2 weeks, and by about 5-6 weeks everything was fully back to normal. The first few times it wasn't great sex physically, it was just kind of nice, with the occasional slightly awkward and uncomfortable moment, but it was wonderful emotionally.

Oh, and whether some posters believe it or not, my children really don't seem to have been irreparably damaged by the fact I sometimes did things other than hold them and gaze into their eyes when they were babies.