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I got a yeast infection in my incision, gross!! My poor husband had to clean out out and pack it with maxi pads every day. My obgyn told me to put lamasil on it and it took a couple weeks for it to heal! It was so nasty,I can't even. I also had about a 1 inch wide opening in mine. It finally closed up around week 5 maybe? In sorry you have to deal with this!

@MrsH: I was glued too.

I laid a piece of gauze under my roll (yuck, I know lol 9 months in, 9 months out) to keep it dry and after I got my staples out, used neosporin on my opening (approx 1") and it was healed in like two days.

@Mae: aw I'm sorry No experience with a c section...... but my husband had to put estrogen cream on my 3rd degree perineum tear for a few weeks... Yah... poor hubbys haha

I had issues with my incision, but I was glued. When I was a kid, I had a couple of abdominal surgeries and I have a huge vertical scar that starts a little below my belly button and is probably 5-6 inches long. When they did the c-section incision, it criss-crossed my scar. After about a week, DH noticed that the section where they met wasn't closed up (I refused to look at my incision for a loooong time because it freaked me out!). Apparently, it was oozing (yuck!).

I went to the OB to have it checked out and he said that because of my old scar, the new incision wasn't getting as much blood flow in that one area, so it was taking longer to heal. It wasn't infected, but the oozing was my body trying to keep it from getting infected. He prescribed me antibiotics for 10 days and also told me to put honey on it because honey is a natural antiseptic. It was really strange, but every night before bed, DH would pour a small bit of honey over that spot and cover it with a little gauze pad. Within a week, it was all healed up!

DH joked that I was leaking from way too many places on my body. So sexy