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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think a lot more women will have the “ready for (and wanting) sex at six weeks/out with friends for a glass of wine at four weeks/not miserable” experience when we do something drastic about postpartum care in this country.

Normalize night nurses/have postpartum doulas covered by health plans. Have insurance companies required to cover pelvic floor PT. Make maternity leave mandatory. Subsidize childcare.

I know women who didn’t even get a grudging referral for pelvic PT until they’d been incontinent for a full year!! A year peeing my pants I wouldn’t feel like having sex either! Waiting so long also means a woman isn’t on maternity leave and gets to schedule her appointments around all her other commitments.

We do this by having a stingy and unsupportive system and then wonder at the outcomes.[/quote]

Your points are well taken BUT you are refusing to acknowledge that physically healing from birth takes a long time. A uterus is still bleeding for 6 weeks post birth and there’s a massive dinner plate sized wound that is slowly healing and shrinking down. Abs are still separated. Hormones are in flux. Milk supply is being established. Nerves, muscles, and tissues are all still
Recovering, to whatever extent they can - which varies hugely by person and the injuries they sustained giving birth or did not. No doula, child care subsidy, or night nurse can speed up the physical time of healing and recovery from birth. Studies show it is 1-2 years for most women which is why more advanced countries give women that long for maternity leave. [/quote]

I don’t think I discounted the physical recovery. Most people will tell you that the body heals better when the person is getting good sleep, good nutrition, and is not lifting and carrying. That’s what we don’t support.[/quote]

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