Seam care after delivery

When giving birth, very often there are situations when you have to impose seams. At the same time, a young mother should be the most cautious and, of course, should have certain skills in caring for this temporary "risk zone." Sutures after childbirth complicate the life of a woman, especially in the first month, so consider how to care for each kind of stitches.


Seams on the perineum

Small stitches and wounds heal for two weeks, one month after childbirth, and longer and deeper injuries take longer. It is very important in the postpartum period to comply with all safety measures and precautions, in order to avoid the seams of infections that can easily get into the birth canal. To accelerate the healing of wounds, you need to properly care for the damaged crotch.

To care for the seams on the walls of the vagina and the cervix is ​​enough even for simple compliance with hygiene rules, it is not necessary to apply additional rules of care. Such seams are superimposed with absorbable materials, so they do not need to be removed.

Midwife in the maternity ward once or twice a day should treat your crotch. In doing so, it will use a concentrated solution of "manganese" or "zelenok". Often, the seams on the crotch are also superimposed by the self-surrendering threads. Already on 3-4 days nodules disappear - usually it happens when you stay the last day in the hospital or, as a last resort, in the first days of finding a home. If you have stitches not absorbed by the materials, then they are also removed for 3-4 days.

For good care of seams on the perineum, special attention should be paid to personal hygiene. Be sure to change the diaper or the lining every two hours, even if it is not nearly full. Get yourself a special one-time panties or loose linen from cotton.

In any case, you can not use pulling underwear, because it exerts a large pressure on the crotch, this leads to a violation of blood circulation and as a consequence, nothing heals.

Every two hours you have to wash yourself, which means after each visit to the toilet and pay attention that you should go to the toilet exactly in such a way that you do not overflow the bladder, and the uterus can calmly contract.

And in the evening, in the morning, when you bathe in the shower, wash your crotch with soap, and for the day you can do without water. Pay special attention to how well you wash the seam, try to direct the water directly at him. After you take a shower, dry the crotch and area of ​​the seams with neat movements of the towel from front to back.

If you have seams, then a week or two weeks (it all depends on the degree of damage) you can not sit down. However, you can sit on the toilet the next day after the baby's birth. It is worth mentioning the toilet. Most women are afraid to feel strong pain and therefore tries to skip defecation, because of this the load on the muscles of the perineum increases and the pain accordingly, too.

Often on the first day or two days after birth, the woman does not have a chair, because before the birth she had an enema, and during the birth she does not eat anything. Stilpoyavlyaetsya already on the second or third day. If you want to avoid constipation after birth, then you should not eat food that has a strengthening effect. If you are already used to thinking that the constipation does not leave you, then you need to drink a spoonful of lean oil before each meal. So you will make the chair soft, and this will not affect the process of stitching.

In most cases, doctors say that you can sit down after 5-7 days postpartum on the buttock, which is opposite to the side on which there is damage. Moreover, it is recommended to sit on a hard surface. In ten days or two weeks, you can sit on both buttocks. When you go home from the hospital, take into account the fact that you have stitches: it will be more convenient for you to go lying down or half sitting on the back seat of the car. It is especially good if the baby is not at this moment at the mom's on his hands, but takes a comfortable child seat.

There are cases when the scars that remain after the stitches remind the mother of her discomfort and pain. You can heal them with the help of warming up, but not sooner than a couple of weeks after the birth, when the uterus will become thinner. To do this, you can use a quartz, infrared or "blue" lamp. This procedure can be done for five to ten minutes at a distance of not less than half a meter, but if you have a very delicate white skin, then the distance should be increased to one meter, so you protect yourself from burns. You can do it yourself at home after you go for good. to the doctor.

If the discomfort or rough scar is troubling you on the place where the scar was formed, then refer to a doctor, he will write you a suitable ointment that can take you for a few weeks. Moreover, it can reduce the amount of scar tissue.

Stitches after caesarean section

If you are dealing with a saucer section, then you will need a particularly careful care. During the whole week after the operation (before you remove the stitches or staples), the procedural nurse must work every day to treat the surgical suture with the help of antiseptic solutions, and also to change the bandage.

After the week passes after the birth, the bandage and seams are removed. If the wound was stitched with self-absorbing material, then the wound should be treated in the same mode, however, you need to remove them (these threads can completely dissolve only on the 65-80th day after the end of the operation).

The scar on the skin forms already about a week after the end of the operation, which means that in a week you can safely bathe in the shower.

Remember that you should not rub the seam with a washcloth - this you can do in another week.

Know that caesarean section is an operation that is characterized as a fairly serious surgical intervention, during which the incision passes through all layers of the anterior abdominal wall. Therefore, naturally, the young mother in the first time bothering the ball in the area where the intervention was made.

In the first two or three days it is possible to get rid of painful sensations with the help of pain medications, which are administered to a woman intramuscularly. However, already in the first days, to lower the painful sensations, a woman is advised to wear a special bandage or tie the stomach with a diaper.

Young mothers often wonder: if I take the baby in my arms, I will not have a seam? And it's true, after the operations of such a plan, doctors say that you can lift a weight of not more than two kilograms for two months. But how can this be presented to a woman who has to take care of her baby? Therefore, midwives say that a woman can pick up a baby's hand, and anything that weighs more than a baby should not be raised within two to three months.

Possible complications

If suddenly there are painful sensations on the abdomen in the region of the suture or on the perineum, redness or gore discharge from the wound: purulent, bloody or some other, then you have inflammatory complications-divergence of seams or their suppuration. In this case, you should immediately consult a doctor. It should be said again that the treatment of all kinds of complications is by no means independent, only under the supervision of a physician. Maybe to process the seams to your house a midwife will come, and maybe vamsam will have to go to a women's consultation, where you will be given the necessary help.

Exercises for healing sutures

To speed up the healing process you need as often as you can, try to strain the muscles of the blood vessel, this will allow you to increase the flow of blood. For example, you can cut muscles around the vagina as if you need to stop the urine stream. In this position, count to six and relax. This can be done every day for 6-8 approaches.