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The original was posted on /r/twoxchromosomes by /u/Vivid-Program4478 on 2023-09-30 12:33:04.
Just a rant really. I’m 11 days PP, when I was in hospital I was using the shower head to clean down there. At home we only have a fixed shower head, I have stitches so unable to scrub like I normally would, and at 10 days PP I decided to shave and clean down there in the folds with a flannel and plain water, because I was feeling gross and should of done it sooner but I’ve honestly just not had time and not even thought about it? Anyway it’s super swollen and inflamed and sore now even a day later. How can cleaning it make it sore 😭
Edit: thanks for all the comments, I didn’t realise shaving was so counterproductive somehow (how have I got to almost 28 and had no idea) because it just feels a bit unhygienic to me! I completely avoided anywhere near my stitches and did the front - I had an episiotomy and can’t for the life of me remember which side it’s on no matter how many times I asked and was told during my hospital stay. I did my careful cleaning and shaving because when I took a close look it was all dischargy/smeggy in the folds and just felt so gross to me I just couldn’t leave it a moment. It’s starting to feel a lot better now but you are all right and I definitely should of just left it all alone in the first place. I never used a Peri bottle because I thought it was just for urinating and I was lucky that it never stung for me, today I learnt I should of been using one all along and I never would of swollen up the inside folds of my labia 😭 I wish we talked about private parts more openly in society so that people wouldn’t do stupid things like this haha
Edit #2: I did not shave my vagina, the vagina is a hole. It’s also not sore where I shaved and I could of probably just left that part out, the sore part was the sensitive skin in the folds that I had touched with a flannel. I went nowhere near my stitches or vagina, which are the parts that WOULD get infected as they were involved in the birth process, and I don’t have an infection. Fortunately my bikini line, pubis and the front sections of my labia weren’t involved in pushing the baby out. Thank you to everybody that has tried to give me advice, it’s pretty much better now after a couple of days, paracetamol and ice packs I was already using for the bruising from my episiotomy I had literally just inflamed it a bit and wanted to complain.