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You did push a baby out your vagina

7 weeks is still early. I am sure it will go back to normal!

I had 32 stitches after my first delivery--I had 3rd degree tears and tore in a star shape. With some time, everything was definitely back into working order. Nothing felt different at all! Not sure about appearance because I never looked.

@LindsayInNY: the doctor wouldn't tell me either and she said that with the additional episiotomy, they don't even count how many stitches (in the hundreds..). It looked AWFUL for a looong time. Black and blue for months, misshapen, swollen. Then granulation tissue, so it looked like guts spilling out. Really bad.
BUT at 9 months PP it looked brand new! At my annual dr visit, she couldn't tell that I had stitches at all, never mind all the other stuff. It's amazing. Miraculous.
Just be patient, it does take time.

I was actually annoyed at my Dr for the opposite reason. At one point while she was sewing me up she commented that she was pretty much done, just doing some 'cosmetic' stitches.

Turns out there is something referred to as the husband stitch where a Dr stitches you up tighter than medically necessary so it 'looks good'. In reality it just makes sex more uncomfortable for the first few months!

I would have preferred it just looked a bit different than before. But I wasn't asked my opinion at the time....

@catomd00: oh maybe I misinterpreted what I read. My understanding was just that the husband stitch was when your doctor stitched you up more than they needed to (because it would otherwise heal naturally, but not look the same and perhaps feel less tight?) but maybe it means something else? All I know is I did not care what anything looked like and would prefer not having cosmetic stitches!

@Peasinapod: I think the cosmetic ones are when they even up anything on the outside that's uneven so that you don't have a big jagged scar.
I had a mediolateral episiotomy, so it cut through muscle and the cosmetic stitches on the outside were so that the scar was as small and healed as flat as possible.

@LindsayInNY: I haven't really looked but I had an episiotomy and they were stitching for a long time... anyway it took me at least 3 months to feel somewhat back to normal. Give yourself time!

@LindsayInNY: I was definitely disappointed with things down there post-delivery. It just doesn't seem the same. I had an episiotomy, but I think the state of things has more to do with what @blackbird: said