What are the symptoms of poor postpartum recovery

The most intuitive ones are leakage of urine, bloating in the waist and abdomen, standing for a long time or holding a baby for a long time, soreness in the waist to the point where it is difficult to straighten up. Many people also experience irregular menstruation and sexual discomfort. Many mothers do not take it seriously after giving birth. They always feel that it is tiring to take care of the baby. Just wait for two years and it will be fine. There are not a few minor problems that turn into chronic diseases later.

Two months ago, I hosted a mother who was born in 1995. She was just 10 months old after giving birth to her second child. Every time she took her baby for a walk downstairs in the community, she didn’t dare to laugh or cough, for fear of leaking urine and wetting her pants. She had to take two breaks to carry her baby up the fifth floor. I felt that my lower abdomen was falling. I thought it was caused by falling into cold water during confinement. After doing an evaluation, I found out that the pelvic floor muscle strength was only level 1 and the rectus abdominis was separated by 2 and a half fingers. It was because I always lay down after giving birth and did not do targeted recovery training.

Nowadays, many people on the Internet say that postpartum recovery is an IQ tax speculated by businesses. You can recover naturally after giving birth by taking a good rest. This is actually not entirely wrong. If you have a very good foundation, the separation of the rectus abdominis is only about 1 finger, and you should be careful not to bend over and bear weight when taking care of your baby. Indeed, you can slowly recover on your own in about half a year. However, if you gain more than 40 pounds during pregnancy and the fetus is large, whether it is a normal delivery or a caesarean section, there is a high probability that the pelvic floor muscles or rectus abdominis will be damaged after delivery. It will be difficult to fully recover by yourself. Even when you get older, the probability of uterine prolapse and stress urinary incontinence will be two to three times higher than that of people who have recovered well.

In addition to these obvious discomforts, there are also many problems that we do not rely on for postpartum recovery. For example, some mothers still have a loose belly two or three years after giving birth. They are obviously lighter than before pregnancy, and their belly is still bulging as if they were four or five months pregnant. Some people have low back pain at all times. After ten minutes of holding a baby, their waist is so sore that it will break. There is no lumbar protrusion after going to the orthopedic examination. It even hurts after taking two steps in high heels. In fact, it is because the pelvis tilted forward during pregnancy and the separation of the pubic symphysis has not reset. In addition, when carrying the baby, the waist is always slumped and the buttocks are stuck out, and the posture has not been adjusted. This is a problem of poor recovery of the bone birth canal.

I have also met many mothers who had a caesarean section. They felt that they would not have recovery problems because they had not been squeezed through the birth canal. However, half a year after giving birth, the belly still could not be retracted. A three-finger diastasis rectus abdominis test showed that the abdominal muscles were cut during the operation. However, they did not dare to move after the operation. They kept lying down and their muscle strength was not restored. Don’t think that a caesarean section can escape the postpartum recovery process. Of course, there are those who are born with good physical constitution and do nothing after giving birth. After the confinement, they are almost the same as before pregnancy, but they are a minority after all. Most ordinary people still have endless lochia and dull pain in the lower abdomen after confinement. They should go to the hospital for a 42-day postpartum review first, and don’t carry it on yourself and delay recovery.