I am one week postpartum and my boobs are engorged, I’m bleeding and sore, the baby is a brute and eats every 1-2 hours, and my husband just asked me “when can we have sex again?” Please give me the strength not to murder him before this is over.

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Oh God. I’m 8 weeks postpartum, pretty much fully healed and doing formula and I would still tell my husband to piss off at this point. 🙃
Be well, mama. Recovery is truly no joke and I struggled those first few weeks physically and mentally. Tell that man to make you a goddamn cuppa tea.
PS engorged boobs are crazy and it’s wild to know what I’d look like with implants. Yowza.

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Good luck!! Most wild ride ever, you’ll be great ♥️

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You literally have an open wound inside of your uterus that is over 8 inches in diameter. It takes weeks to heal, and that’s not even mentioning any tears from vaginal delivery.

Every 1-2 hours is really normal, the 4th trimester is hard for babies, they were warm and comfy and now everything is so different.

Your husband needs to go whack off and then suck it up.

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Not to mention, when I had my 3rd baby it was also helpful because I tended to have a hard time making it to pee without leaking.

Uh. Tell him the answer is ‘never’ if he asks you again. You will let him know. And now he’s free to go make you some soup, clean the kitchen, change every, and I mean every, diaper, and STFU.

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Hang in there! I’m 9 months post partum and my little guy was a total savage breastfeeding. It’s mentally and physically taxing. Frida disposables or Thinx underwear will help with whatever pad you’re using. Also it might be a while before you feel it (or parts of it) even after a doctor clears you. It could be months!

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It took us at least a year after our baby was born (now 2.5) to have sex. And due to my tearing it was very painful until then, at least... and it took even longer to feel “interested” in sex. And while it’s not longer painful, all I know is sex is much different after baby than it was before,
At least for me. Sad to say it.

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Aside from actual physical recovery I also had 0 sex drive both kids while breast feeding. I just came clean about it to my husband the second time and said something to the effect of “I love you, still find you sexy, but you’re just going to have to deal with far less sex until this baby is off the boobs”. He didn’t love hearing it but I think he got it. Was better than than him sulking.

Just hit him with the science (recovery to all the lady bits, sleep
Deprivation + plus lack of estrogen = sex likely not high on the priority list for a relatively short window of time). I really think they just don’t get it.

Blame it on your doctor, then keep telling him after every visit that they said you need a little more time. 😂

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