6 Women on Their Vaginas After Childbirth

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Last week on Jimmy Kimmel Alive, Cardi B went on a "tear" about her mail service-nativity trunk, explaining that her girl Kulture "broke" her vagina. While it's not news that childbirth does a number on a woman's body, information technology is refreshing when nosotros talk can nigh such topics — "Why does nobody tell you about those things?" Cardi B said to Kimmel. "Nobody told me they were gonna stitch my vagina" — with openness, without judgment, with even a little sense of humor. If not on late-night television, at least to each other. Here, six women on their mail-infant vaginas.

I can't remember the exact degree of tearing I had, only I gave nascency vaginally and needed stitches. My whole body was in such discomfort afterward that I don't really remember whatever acute pain from the tearing. What I practice think, though, is what happened at my half dozen-week postpartum appointment. Like most women, I had to bring my son because … who else would take intendance of him? He'd just woken upwards from a nap when the midwife came into the test room to check me out.

She breezed through a few routine questions, not actually listening merely sort of confirming that I was "fine." Then she had me get on the tabular array and then she could await at my stitches, and somehow I managed to get up there while all the same holding my son. After about a second of looking, she announced that some skin had grown over the stitches and she needed to use silvery nitrate to burn them off. She explained that usually a nurse would concur the infant during this procedure, but she idea my son looked "comfy" right where he was. Then she only went right ahead and burned my vagina, with my son counterbalanced precariously on my chest. And that was it — that was how my vagina was cared for after giving nativity. Her final recommendation was to have a drinking glass of vino before sex, considering it was probably going to injure. I hate this country.

I had a C-department, which you'd call back ways a perfectly fine vagina. But I swear, my vagina was merely bigger — wider, Style WIDER, later on being significant. My "lips" were longer and droopier and the whole thing went from a pretty pink rose to a large, floppy pile of flesh. It could be all in my head — again, given that I didn't push button downwardly there — but I don't think and then; I've been looking at my vagina for 40 years. The other thing I will say in the post-birth-vagina department is that I rarely become moisture anymore. I used to get moisture quite hands. I withal get horny; I still like sex with my husband. But pregnancy dried me upward. I need lube now! Fucking lube?! Goddammit.

I wear a panty liner every day of my life after having my two kids — and my last pregnancy was five years ago, so it'southward been a while. I'chiliad seeing a urologist about it this calendar week. And when I make a big poop, to this day, I swear my tear opens back up. I literally tin't experience my husband'southward dick. Sexual activity used to injure, but I'm so loose at present. I besides have to wear super-plus tampons even on lighter days — the smaller tampons feel similar they're falling out.

I've had three kids vaginally and my medico tells me I'm like a virgin down there. So I don't recall every woman should worry about winding up with a "broken vagina." My mom, on the other paw, said one of her lx stitches — property together an avenue — tore while I was 1 week one-time, and she almost bled to death. She needed three claret transfusions. I bankrupt her vagina and nearly killed her. How'south that for Jewish guilt?

I swear I could hear myself tearing during delivery. I still remember the shrill of the pain. And then I was simply then lamentable and frustrated that I couldn't walk properly for weeks — healing the tears actually slowed me downwardly and bummed me out. What I also noticed virtually recently was this: So I used to hate Pap smears. Information technology was the just time I ever took a Xanax. They would hurt and I'd experience so tight and tense downwardly in that location. Recently, I got a Pap smear and literally couldn't feel it. It was all so spacious and airy downwards in that location! And on that note, I'll say, my husband is very well endowed, and for a while postal service-infant I couldn't feel him down in that location. That freaked me out. I thought, "Oh hell, this is what it will experience similar forever." But at that place is a skillful ending — everything is pretty much okay at present. Kind of. Well, getting there …

I didn't really tear. No stitches that I know of. But I pushed for so long that what got damaged was more than similar the muscles in my vagina. They were then sore that I couldn't sit or walk for three or four weeks. But the vagina itself looks and feels totally fine and normal now and it's but been 6 months since my baby.

6 Women on Their Vaginas Later Childbirth