https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 07 May 2026 20:33:56 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-looked-down-there-since-giving-birth#post-544037 Fri, 01 Feb 2013 11:59:18 +0000 littlebittyhouse 544037@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>7mo pp and I still have not looked! I know I had a second degree tear + stitches but that is all. I don't even know how many stitches I had. It feels fine now and really that is all I want to know. The 'frankenvag' would have killed my spirits! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-looked-down-there-since-giving-birth#post-544033 Fri, 01 Feb 2013 11:58:06 +0000 pl0508 544033@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>NOPE. refuse to! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-looked-down-there-since-giving-birth#post-544020 Fri, 01 Feb 2013 11:52:56 +0000 photojane 544020@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ack.. I'm so scared of this. I don't even like the way it looks before baby. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-looked-down-there-since-giving-birth#post-544018 Fri, 01 Feb 2013 11:52:47 +0000 littlebug 544018@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>They offered me the mirror during delivery, but I declined. I really didn't think it would help.</p> <p>I looked down there about 10 days pp because I thought one of my stitches had opened. It was not for the faint of heart! And I was still so swollen, I had no idea what I was looking at/for, so I went back to the OB, anyway (everything intact). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-looked-down-there-since-giving-birth#post-544013 Fri, 01 Feb 2013 11:52:30 +0000 rachiecakes 544013@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I did when I got home from the hospital and cried. I had over a hundred stitches and it was like Franken-vag. For a while I had granulation tissue, really gross (and scary at first), finally a year later and you'd never know the traumatic event that took place at the site. Actually my OB (she didn't deliver me) didn't even know from looking that I had a mediolateral episiotomy when I went for my yearly exam, she was reading my chart and was like, wow. It's a miracle. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-looked-down-there-since-giving-birth#post-543984 Fri, 01 Feb 2013 11:42:14 +0000 heartsnsunshine 543984@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>nope!been thinking about it.im 3 weeks pp. dh asks to kook but I dont want to.know if its bad... I had 4 degree tearing... eek </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-looked-down-there-since-giving-birth#post-543093 Fri, 01 Feb 2013 07:03:21 +0000 hellobeeboston 543093@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@tororojo: I thought 'no way' about a mirror before labor --- but after pushing for 3 hours and still no baby, they brought in the mirror for the last 2 hours and it was extremely helpful! I also got to see our baby come out and that was amazing. Definitely helped me push better!</p> <p>And yes - I have looked! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-looked-down-there-since-giving-birth#post-543074 Fri, 01 Feb 2013 06:38:40 +0000 Ree723 543074@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Last I saw was when I was pushing DD out as I had a mirror (@tororojo: the mirror is the best thing ever - like you, the thought of it grossed me out but the MW brought it out to assist with pushing. Not only was it super effective, but watching my daughter come into this world was the most amazing experience of my life and I can't believe I nearly missed out on that once in a lifetime opportunity! To be fair though, I had an epidural and couldn't feel a thing so I was able to enjoy watching her come out. Just my two cents!)</p> <p>DH says he can't see any differences so I'm assuming everything looks normal and is just fine! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-looked-down-there-since-giving-birth#post-543013 Fri, 01 Feb 2013 03:40:08 +0000 matador84 543013@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I did about...I had to check stitches for infection </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-looked-down-there-since-giving-birth#post-542985 Fri, 01 Feb 2013 01:54:37 +0000 MrsStar 542985@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope! I didn't want to see it! I had a labial graze and 2 stitches, but I didn't want to know where they were exactly. it felt normal from about 1.5 weeks pp </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-looked-down-there-since-giving-birth#post-542956 Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:59:06 +0000 sarac 542956@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@tororojo: I went in planning to have a mirror. I had a long shitty labor and puked all over the place. When I was ready to push, though, I was overcome with a feeling of power and beauty and general womanly awesome-ness. They started to position the mirror, and I was like, no, thank you, let me preserve the illusion that I'm not covered in vomit. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-looked-down-there-since-giving-birth#post-542655 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:39:56 +0000 MamaMoose 542655@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yup. I lpoked at about 3 weeks pp and it all looks normal to me. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-looked-down-there-since-giving-birth#post-542594 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:31:17 +0000 mrsjyw 542594@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope. Dh has and says all is well~ </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-looked-down-there-since-giving-birth#post-542591 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:30:28 +0000 Mrs. Cat in the Cradle 542591@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>FTR I looked probably a couple weeks after. My OB did a nice job with the stitches. A+++ </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-looked-down-there-since-giving-birth#post-542588 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:30:21 +0000 stargal 542588@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>i looked immediately like a day after giving birth and OMG i should not have. i admit i cried. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-looked-down-there-since-giving-birth#post-542584 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:29:26 +0000 pastemoo 542584@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I looked immediately because when things hurt I like to understand what is going on. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-looked-down-there-since-giving-birth#post-542577 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:28:30 +0000 prettylizy 542577@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Still haven't looked... too scared!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-looked-down-there-since-giving-birth#post-542570 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:27:15 +0000 Mrs. Cat in the Cradle 542570@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@tororojo: Exactly. You will know what is right when you're there! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-looked-down-there-since-giving-birth#post-542557 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:25:16 +0000 immabeetoo 542557@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yep I did after a few days and kept checking - I am glad I did because it clued me in to the fact that something was wrong the first (stitches had become infected &amp; pulled apart) and second (granuloma scar tissue developed) time since there were visual clues. Otherwise I would've continued thinking it was pain I just needed to push through - and it wasn't! Finally feel fine &amp; look normal now :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-looked-down-there-since-giving-birth#post-542556 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:25:09 +0000 tororojo 542556@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Cat in the Cradle: Part of me wants to do it just so I'll be able to say that I watched the baby pop out! But I imagine I'll just decide in the moment.</p> <p>@FutureMrsMcK: Good to know that you found it useful! I'm so intrigued by it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-looked-down-there-since-giving-birth#post-542550 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:23:27 +0000 lovehoneybee 542550@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Um, actually no. DH has assured me all looks well though! </p> <p>@tororojo: I was pretty sure I'd have no interest but when they offered it I said yes. I found it really useful in figuring out the most effective way to push! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-looked-down-there-since-giving-birth#post-542539 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:21:24 +0000 Mrs. Cat in the Cradle 542539@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@tororojo: I skipped the mirror. Don't regret it at all. By the time she came out, I wasn't seeing straight, so I wouldn't even have been able to appreciate that. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-looked-down-there-since-giving-birth#post-542493 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:13:17 +0000 tororojo 542493@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Hehe, I have wondered if I'll be brave enough to do this after birth. Today my doc mentioned that I'll have the option of a mirror while pushing and I'm trying to decide if I would be horrified or helped by it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-looked-down-there-since-giving-birth#post-542425 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:01:18 +0000 runsyellowlites 542425@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I looked not long after, maybe a couple weeks.... Looked fine to me! Lol </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-looked-down-there-since-giving-birth#post-535605 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:00:00 +0000 chopsuey 535605@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I haven't! And I don't plan on it! </p>