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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I thought the items you listed were a given. Why do you seem surprised?[/quote]

People don't talk about postpartum complications with the same fervor and openness of any other major surgery problems imo.[/quote]

This. I had surgery this year for a rare kind of cyst caused by injury during childbirth. Injury to my vagina. The cyst has come and gone for many years. I have a 10 year old now and i just had the surgery. It is really isolating to be on exercise restrictions on and off for years and then to recover from a surgery that just can’t be talked about. The impact to one’s physical health after childbirth is huge and apart from c-sections and weight changes, it is basically taboo to talk about, let alone suffer from/complain about. Every other physical situation I had been in in the past was fixable by medication, diet, exercise, or PT. It was a shock to realize that the “after” of childbirth was a new, permanent state of being. I do feel surprised by the impact my new physical state has had on my life.[/quote]

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