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Easier (that was the implication). The only thing that was tougher about it was sex felt weird for longer. But I’d choose that again over being in a ton of pain for a week (especially if I knew I had a baby going home w me and possibly other kids at home)[/quote]

Easier how?  I'm trying to decide between the two and my vaginal recovery was BAD.  I was bedridden for a week and not right for over a month.  Trying to see how much better or worse a planned c section would be.[/quote]

NP: I think this is a great thread even if it is getting off topic at times. I hear what you are asking PP but I’m not sure if it is a matter of easier or what our overall expectation of recovery should be. When our grandmothers gave birth, if they did it in a hospital in America, they stayed in bed and were waited in hand and foot for at least 5 Days. (Mine are still alive, in their 90s and delivered in NY in the 1940s). When my mother gave birth to me, she had 4 nights of recovery at the hospital for her uncomplicated vaginal birth. This is unheard of in this day and age. Yes we are all on a continuum of how quickly we will feel ready to get up and at ‘em, but I think there are so many variables prenataly, birth and postpartum about the care we receive and our particular bodies to donanythibg but listen to other people’s experiences and choose what feels best for us.

Other cultures around the world practice 10-30 days of rest and warm foods and others taking care of the recovering woman. I know that was not my joy to experience in my post partum period, and I really believed by day 3 i’d Be just me, but with a baby in tow...I had a second degree tear, and it was at least two weeks before I felt I could sit and walk “normally”. AND I lived in a row house that meant two flights of stairs constantly. Kitchen on the first floor, Livingroom on the second and bedrooms on the top...it was awful.[/quote]

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