Day 26
August 4th, 2005 by anonamomDay 26
Did I ever write about the sitz bath or sitting on that stupid donut? I feel a need to say how degrading and painful the first two weeks after birth are. People always talk about labor pain -–hell, get the epidural and you’re set for that. It’s after that’s awful. I was so scared to take a poop, it hurt to sit, and it hurt to get up once I was sitting. I’d lift up and my husband would slide that donut thing under my butt. I’d use my precious 10 minutes alone to go sit on the toilet and do one of those sitz bath things. And I didn’t even want to take those things home from the hospital - I never thought I’d use them and even if I did I never thought I’d admit it. But my husbands said, hey, take them just in case - they’re free! Thanks for being cheap, honey. Oh, and thoughtful. And utterly unfazed about human functions. This is from me, someone who never even peed in front of my husband until recently. Now I don’t care. Help me. My privates hurt. They f***ing hurt. And don’t even think about that….