Hi guys welcome back to our channel today I'm doing a video on the differences between a vaginal delivery recovery and a C-section recovery so if you're interested in seeing the differences and the similarities keep watching okay guys first I want to say if you guys follow I've logged you know that we're in the process of moving so I'm having to film this video in my kids play room but I really wanted to get this video out to you guys I was like you know it's point really does not matter it does not matter so I'm first going to start off with a little background you know most of you know with my first child I had a C-section it was not an emergency C-section nevertheless it was still a C-section so I had that recovery and then my second daughter I had this past December and I was able to successfully have a vaginal birth which they call a V-Bat which is a vaginal birth after cesarean so I have experienced both the types of recovery and so I just kind of wanted to come here and share this information with those who have either previously had a C-section and interested in having a vaginal birth and kind of want to see what the differences in recovery are so let's get started okay so I'm first and I had my notes with me I'm first going to start with the C-section because that was the first birth that I had one of the biggest things I want to start with as far as the cons to a C-section is of course like everyone know it's a major surgery it's an abdominal surgery so because it is a surgery and leaves a permanent incision so the good thing about it and not necessarily good but the better thing about the incision is over time doctors have increased their expertise as far as being able to cut and where they cut at so you really can't see the incision outside of you personally seeing it but it's still there and it's still permanent so that's one thing that comes along with the C-section is a permanent incision the second thing is of course because of some major surgery you have a longer recovery now it took me I'm gonna say about four to five months to recover from my C-section and what I mean by recover is the pain where they cut at was no longer preventing me from doing other things and it no longer hurt even after and I've talked to other women that have also have C-section also have had C-sections although the recovery isn't about three to four months even for the next year or so you'll still feel little tingles or even numbness at your incision site so that's another thing about getting the difference about getting a C-section versus a vaginal birth now as far as maintenance of it maintenance of during this recovery process now with my delivery I had the invisible bandage that they put on so it just it just went away so I didn't have to keep replacing a bandage from over my C-section scar so that was really convenient but I do know that in most cases there you do have to constantly replace your bandage so that's a maintenance thing so as far as C-section those were like the biggest ones as far as recovery that I felt like were kind of not so fun I mean what kind of recovery is ever that fun but not so much fun and so now we're going to get into the vaginal birth recovery okay so a little background story about my vaginal birth which was my V-back now the the things that I give as far as cons with the vaginal birth is that it's specific to me in my situation but I still share it so me I had a second degree tear and I also had a hemorrhoid from pushing I pushed about 45 minutes so I got a hemorrhoid and so that is incorporated in my vaginal vaginal recovery so number one hemorrhoids I've talked to a lot of women we've got hemorrhoids that was my first time ever getting one and they were extremely uncomfortable to say the least it kind of made it difficult for me to sit down to get up to walk it just it was if you've ever had one you know what I'm talking about and my hemorrhoid lasted about a month and a half yeah lasted about a month and a half thankfully they it hasn't come back they say it's a possibility they can come back but it hasn't come back so I'm thankful for that so one is the when you have a vaginal birth you have a higher chance no does a higher chance of a hemorrhoid compared to a C-section okay number two number two tearing now again not all women tear many women do but not all women tear but in my case I got a second degree tear so with that that's also another part the healing process when you have a vaginal birth that in conjunction with the hemorrhoid or even if you didn't or won't have a hemorrhoid it's still a part it's still it's still very uncomfortable and it affects the way you're able to move but my my stitches I had invisible stitches they lasted about I'll say a month as well and the last thing is with the vaginal birth that I noticed in comparison to a C-section is there are a lot more materials that I needed in order for recovery for example I need to take a popsicle pads because nine times out of ten you'll get some vaginal swelling so we had I had a feel on popsicle pads a lot of popsicle pads with the witch hazel and freeze them and change them and change them out routinely throughout the day to kind of help society with the swelling and the pain and it really did work another thing that we had that I had to buy was like Epsis salt so I needed to sit in a bath of Epsis salt for the tear that I got and I had to do that during the day some other things were just different pads and then a some thing called germaplas and so they asked that you spray that down there and it kind of numbs the stitching area so it's a lot more materials that I needed for my vaginal recovery that I didn't need for my C-section but the pros of each one the C-section is that you don't have any vaginal anything like everything down below is still intact it's fine and it's untouched that's the good thing about a C-section the good thing about a vaginal birth is that you don't have an incision you don't have a long recovery such a long recovery and you get to have the vaginal delivery experience but just to say this now that I've had both deliveries I truly and authentically can say it does not matter as long as your baby is healthy and mom is healthy like however you get your baby here you are a trooper you are a warrior you are a mother and so having both I just have come to the conclusion they both come with good and bad but however God allows for you to bring life into this world you are the bomb dot com and it's a blessed experience for you so I hope the video helped out if you have any other questions concerning a V-back delivery versus a C-section please hit me up in the description in the comment box I will get back to you and if you have any other videos that you want to see that I'm mommy and baby oriented let me know and I will see you guys next week love you so much bye guys I just I'm leaving this same stress right now and praise God he has come through again like this guy is