2024-08-14 17:36:41
After conceiving, the first fear of women is how they will bear the pain of natural delivery. Along with natural or normal delivery, the fear of vagina becoming loose also haunts women. Often women have this thought or fear in their mind that vaginal delivery will make their vagina loose. Due to this reason also, many times women get C-section done.
Gynecologist Dr. Tanya Gupta has shared her views on the vagina becoming loose after a normal delivery. Dr. Tanya says that the vagina stretches during delivery but it slowly starts to recover after delivery.
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Doctor’s words
When does the vagina become loose?
The doctor says that if it is a repeated delivery, i.e., third or fourth delivery, then the vaginal muscles get stretched repeatedly, due to which a little looseness in the vagina is natural. However, in the first pregnancy, the looseness is not so much that you face any problem.
How loose is the vagina?
According to ahyes.org, how loose your vagina will be after delivery depends on the size of the baby, genetics, how long you have to push during labor, how many children you have had before and whether or not you have done pelvic floor exercises for a vaginal delivery.
When does the vagina become normal after delivery?
Everyone’s pregnancy and recovery after delivery is different. Your vagina is flexible enough to stretch enough to push the baby out. Most women recover 6 to 8 weeks after a normal delivery, but some may take longer. If you have had multiple normal deliveries, your vagina may be less flexible.
Ways to tighten the vagina
You can do pelvic floor exercises to strengthen and tone your pelvic floor muscles after delivery. These muscles support the bladder, rectum and small intestine as well as the uterus, so exercising can tighten the vagina. It can also provide relief from the problem of incontinence of urine.
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Use of lubricant
Many women experience looseness as well as dryness in the vagina. This happens due to the decrease in estrogen hormone in the body. If you are feeling dryness in the vagina for sex, then you can use lubricant as per the doctor’s advice.
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