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[quote=Anonymous]Ask your husband if he thinks he would only need a week after having abdominal surgery.  Even without a c-section, you are healing.  Which means your uterus is bleeding and healing after expelling the placenta.  It's essentially an internal wound.  It needs time and rest to do that properly.  If you have a c-section, your abdomen has been cut open and needs time and rest to heal correctly.  If you give birth vaginally, there is a good chance you'll have some tearing in your perinium that needs time and rest to heal.

But yes, he needs to do some reading about what child birth is like physically for most women.  And then what life is like with a baby.  You need time to rest, but also will have a baby that needs to eat every 2-3 hours AROUND THE CLOCK.  Does that sound restful?  It's not.  Which is why women who've just given birth need to do NOTHING else but heal their bodies and care for their babies (no small task).  No cooking, no cleaning, no housework, NO JOB, if you can afford that last part most especially.[/quote]

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