What was your age you had your first child?

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What was post partum like for you?

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38, no complications, slight tear, minor pain first few days but by a week postpartum I was fine.

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26. No issues.

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30, no complications, no tearing, easy pregnancy - was exercising for 45 min each day right up to 2 days before labor. Felt so smug then had a baby who NEVER SLePt and was in a fog for 2 months wanting to die.

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27, csection, smooth recovery.

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33, induction due to labor not progressing after my water broke, 3rd degree tear but it healed fine and quickly. The whole thing was pretty fast all things considered - maybe 15 hours or so. Second labor at 35 was easier.

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First child at 37. Vaginal delivery with a very minor tear. Physical recovery was a breeze, and I felt mostly back to normal within a week or so. But I had crippling PPD/PPA exacerbated by a baby with severe reflux who didn’t sleep for more than 2 hours at a time until she was 6mo. EBF…BFing itself was easy for me, but I had an oversupply (not necessarily always a good thing), and baby nursed constantly because of the reflux.

Second child at 41. Quick vaginal delivery, no tearing. Physical recovery was again very easy…but it was so easy that I overdid it and had much more intense post-partum bleeding…so take it easy, no matter how great you think you feel. I managed to avoid the worst of the PPD the second time around, thankfully. I ended up combo feeding pretty early on with my second child. I didn’t have the supply I had the first time around, so we started supplementing with a bottle of formula a day when she was around a week or so old.

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Kids at 36 and 38. Easy pregnancies, easy deliveries, easy recoveries both times. The second time I was barely even sore.

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35. Got pregnant right away. Easy pregnancy, long induction that ended in a c section after 2 days and followed by postpartum preeclampsia a week after delivery. Recovery was bad. I’m 10 months out now but still get shaken when I think about the birth and postpartum. Healthy, fit person pre pregnancy, during pregnancy, and now after finally getting off blood pressure meds.

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31. Emergency c-section. Six weeks to fully recover but no issues caring for baby.

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31. Pregnant right off of BCP. Easy pregnancy easy recovery healthy easy baby. Too easy actually as I was pregnant 4 mos post partum, despite EBF and not having a cycle back yet.

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33 it was fine.

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About a month shy of 27. I worked out regularly way before even thinking of getting pregnant, worked out through my pregnancy, and was going for a walk each day the day after getting home from the hospital. Vaginal midwife birth, no complications. I continued doing that until six weeks, when I was cleared to start working out again. I was at my pre-pregnancy weight before maternity leave was over.

It's easy for me to say it's easy, but the truth is, I was in great shape going into things, and had no complications (nor did my baby). I also had a wildly supportive husband, we were able to afford to hire whatever help we wanted, and it was the first baby.

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29. Vaginal delivery with no epidural or medications. No complications. Minimal discomfort after delivery and I was walking around the hospital almost directly after. Very easy recovery.

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Anonymous wrote:What was post partum like for you?

35 and 38. I’m average shape and office job. Immediate postpartum was way easier than I expected. But then a few months later I felt crappy, anemic and hormonal lay off for a long time!