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After Birth: The Injury No One Talks About by EMMACHI1(op): 11:12am On Jul 17
Everyone checks the baby after birth.

No one checks the mother for injuries.

Childbirth is not just pain. For many mothers, it is an injury.

Your perineum can tear. Your pelvic floor can weaken. Your back can ache for months where the epidural went in. Your wrist can throb from holding your baby — they even call it “mother’s thumb.” Your nipples can crack and bleed.

And the biggest injury is invisible — the wound the size of a dinner plate inside your uterus where the placenta detached. You bleed for six weeks because you are healing from the inside out.

We call it “recovery” but it is really “wound healing” while you are awake all night keeping another human alive.

If you just gave birth and you feel broken, sore, leaking, or not like yourself — you are not weak. You are injured and healing at the same time.

Rest is not laziness. Asking for help is not complaining.

You just did one of the hardest physical events a human body can do. Give yourself the same grace you give your newborn.

If you're a mother reply in the comments section.

Re: After Birth: The Injury No One Talks About by budaatum: 12:28pm On Jul 17
Ma was in a comma for 2 weeks 6 decades ago this week because her childbirth bleeding was not detected in Lewisham Hospital.

Her child will be going to wish her happy give birth on the day.
Re: After Birth: The Injury No One Talks About by dominique(mod): 9:18pm On Jul 18
And the biggest injury is invisible — the wound the size of a dinner plate inside your uterus where the placenta detached. You bleed for six weeks because you are healing from the inside out.
Wow! I know the detachment of the placenta causes bleeding, never knew it leaves behind such a huge wound. The pains that come with uterus shrinkage is another story entirely😩. Childbirth is not a walk in the park no matter how easy some women make it look. Wishing all expectant mums safe delivery and recovery afterwards.
Re: After Birth: The Injury No One Talks About by legendarystar: 9:23pm On Jul 18
Men it’s quite a things may god help us all through this phase
Re: After Birth: The Injury No One Talks About by Wizardslayer: 9:23pm On Jul 18
God bless my mother.

GOD BLESS MY WIFE MORE.
Re: After Birth: The Injury No One Talks About by Grace2end: 9:24pm On Jul 18
May God bless all mothers
Re: After Birth: The Injury No One Talks About by gaskiyamagana:
May Almighty bless mother and their newly delivered babies , Amin.
Re: After Birth: The Injury No One Talks About by femi4: 9:26pm On Jul 18
Thank God for technology..providing less strenuous options
Re: After Birth: The Injury No One Talks About by kpankpangolo: 9:27pm On Jul 18
If all these were true, why is sex sweet for women?

EMMACHI1:
Everyone checks the baby after birth.

No one checks the mother for injuries.

Childbirth is not just pain. For many mothers, it is an injury.

Your perineum can tear. Your pelvic floor can weaken. Your back can ache for months where the epidural went in. Your wrist can throb from holding your baby — they even call it “mother’s thumb.” Your nipples can crack and bleed.

And the biggest injury is invisible — the wound the size of a dinner plate inside your uterus where the placenta detached. You bleed for six weeks because you are healing from the inside out.

We call it “recovery” but it is really “wound healing” while you are awake all night keeping another human alive.

If you just gave birth and you feel broken, sore, leaking, or not like yourself — you are not weak. You are injured and healing at the same time.

Rest is not laziness. Asking for help is not complaining.

You just did one of the hardest physical events a human body can do. Give yourself the same grace you give your newborn.

If you're a mother reply in the comments section.
Re: After Birth: The Injury No One Talks About by Haydens: 9:29pm On Jul 18
Nature will always take care of those healings but will nature take care of man's pocket ?
Re: After Birth: The Injury No One Talks About by Insectkiller: 9:32pm On Jul 18
What an emotional write up...

May God bless all true mothers...

Re: After Birth: The Injury No One Talks About by jubrilELsudan: 9:32pm On Jul 18
AND SOME STUPID HUSBANDS WILL WANT TO F0RK THEIR WIFE IMMEDIATELY AFTER CHILDBIRTH

Re: After Birth: The Injury No One Talks About by franchasng:
Yet most Nigerian women will never use their wisdom and give birth to one or two and rest, instead they will be luring their husbands into impregnating them in the name of trying to outbirth their friends, sisters, neighbors and colleagues as if it's a trophy. It may have been trophy many decades ago but not today. Don't birth more than 3 kids at most no matter the pressure from your husband. If he wants more let him carry it, men can now carry pregnancy, ask lipsrsealedangry
Re: After Birth: The Injury No One Talks About by motymop: 9:42pm On Jul 18
Stop writing just because you wanna get comments

Who told you no one check about their injuries
Re: After Birth: The Injury No One Talks About by Judemarco31(m): 9:45pm On Jul 18
If I marry my wife will only give me 3 children, and nothing more, my wife will never suffer, so help me God
Re: After Birth: The Injury No One Talks About by Daniel0047: 9:46pm On Jul 18
Women una don do una part seriously and God bless every legitimate mothers. You guys are special breed
Re: After Birth: The Injury No One Talks About by Babastrong(m): 9:47pm On Jul 18
God bless all mothers.
God bless my mother more.
Re: After Birth: The Injury No One Talks About by CanadaOrBust: 9:49pm On Jul 18
Grace2end:
May God bless all mothers
And those hoping to be mothers and those who almost became mothers and those who never became mothers
Re: After Birth: The Injury No One Talks About by CanadaOrBust: 9:51pm On Jul 18
Judemarco31:
If I marry my wife will only give me 3 children, and nothing more, my wife will never suffer, so help me God
Suffer? She'll be disturbing you for more children. Women quickly forget trauma of childbirth and desperately want it all over again!
Re: After Birth: The Injury No One Talks About by Asek1(m): 9:52pm On Jul 18
motymop:
Stop writing just because you wanna get comments

Who told you no one check about their injuries
I tire o
Any sensible man will always do the needful cos he's responsible for that 9 months course
Nobody dey tell blind man say rain dey fall
Re: After Birth: The Injury No One Talks About by Hezmatosky210: 9:54pm On Jul 18
Maybe we don't know. But mothers also forgets that easily. If not why the throwing away inside gutter? kiss And also why the selling of babies if it worth the pains?
Re: After Birth: The Injury No One Talks About by CanadaOrBust:
Hezmatosky210:
Maybe we don't know. But mothers also forgets that easily. If not why the throwing away inside gutter? kiss And also why the selling of babies if it worth the pains?
Women are masochists by nature. They love that suffering and soon want to get pregnant again! That's why a woman will ironically love someone who gives her pain one-way or another
Re: After Birth: The Injury No One Talks About by IyaTola: 10:05pm On Jul 18
As a mom, this brought tears to my eyes because it's so true. ❤️

Everyone celebrated my baby, but very few people asked how I was doing. The sleepless nights, the pain, the bleeding, the emotional rollercoaster—it wasn't something I was prepared for.

To every new mom reading this: please be patient with yourself. Healing takes time, and it's okay to ask for help. You don't have to be "back to normal" overnight.

Motherhood is beautiful, but postpartum recovery is real. Sending love and strength to every mama out there. You're doing better than you think. 🤍
Re: After Birth: The Injury No One Talks About by Judemarco31(m): 10:10pm On Jul 18
CanadaOrBust:
Suffer? She'll be disturbing you for more children. Women quickly forget trauma of childbirth and desperately want it all over again!
She have to agree with me that we can only have 3 children, that gonna be part of my discussion with her before and in the process of marriage grin
Re: After Birth: The Injury No One Talks About by bamasite2:
God bless you.
Women go through a lot. Men also play huge roles, but we are always relegated to the background
Haydens:
Nature will always take care of those healings but will nature take care of man's pocket ?
Re: After Birth: The Injury No One Talks About by ukaface(f): 10:20pm On Jul 18
CanadaOrBust:
Suffer? She'll be disturbing you for more children. Women quickly forget trauma of childbirth and desperately want it all over again!
Any statement to sha say something about women
Person say he want 3 children, you say he wife go want more. How you take know? You know his wife? Abi you Dey for their family?
Re: After Birth: The Injury No One Talks About by professore(m):
You see why men who treat their wives better always shine.

Those who do the opposite always end up as failures.

Husbands
Treat your wife well.


Wives
Don't take a good husband for granted, don't say what will you do if I dare you?

Peace.
Re: After Birth: The Injury No One Talks About by trytillmake(m): 10:30pm On Jul 18
Kudos to moms, God bless u all, carrying a child for 9 months then delivery no be small task at all, then repeating it for 1,2 or 3 more times, simply wao,
Re: After Birth: The Injury No One Talks About by akaahs(m): 10:44pm On Jul 18
EMMACHI1:
Everyone checks the baby after birth.

No one checks the mother for injuries.

Childbirth is not just pain. For many mothers, it is an injury.

Your perineum can tear. Your pelvic floor can weaken. Your back can ache for months where the epidural went in. Your wrist can throb from holding your baby — they even call it “mother’s thumb.” Your nipples can crack and bleed.

And the biggest injury is invisible — the wound the size of a dinner plate inside your uterus where the placenta detached. You bleed for six weeks because you are healing from the inside out.

We call it “recovery” but it is really “wound healing” while you are awake all night keeping another human alive.

If you just gave birth and you feel broken, sore, leaking, or not like yourself — you are not weak. You are injured and healing at the same time.

Rest is not laziness. Asking for help is not complaining.

You just did one of the hardest physical events a human body can do. Give yourself the same grace you give your newborn.

If you're a mother reply in the comments section.
My wife has had issues with her coccyx (tailbone) since the birth of our first child. It shifted during delivery, and ever since then, she has lived with recurring pain. After our second child, her tummy has never quite returned to the way it was before pregnancy.

Every childbirth leaves its own physical and emotional scars. It is a reminder of the incredible sacrifices women make to bring life into the world.

That is why I always make it a point to be in the labour room with my wife. Witnessing what she goes through has given me a much deeper appreciation for her strength, resilience, and the sacrifices mothers make. Women truly go through a lot, and they deserve our love, support, patience, and respect.
Re: After Birth: The Injury No One Talks About by Empresa: 10:46pm On Jul 18
In as much as believe child birth is not a child's play and I give respect to our women, I believe this write up is exaggerated.

I'm not saying the write up is entirely false but exaggerated. I have seen women who start knacking 2 weeks after delivery and all or 90% of the write up false.

Good health care is important to child deliverry and this story will look more false than true.

Respect to our women and mothers.
Re: After Birth: The Injury No One Talks About by LordIsaac(m): 10:49pm On Jul 18
Sometimes I look at cows and goats giving birth and I say God is wonderful...such huge offsprings! Well, there bodies are designed for it. Men, don't allow yourselves to be manipulated thereby!
Re: After Birth: The Injury No One Talks About by joseph1832(m): 10:52pm On Jul 18
EMMACHI1:
Everyone checks the baby after birth.

No one checks the mother for injuries.

Childbirth is not just pain. For many mothers, it is an injury.

Your perineum can tear. Your pelvic floor can weaken. Your back can ache for months where the epidural went in. Your wrist can throb from holding your baby — they even call it “mother’s thumb.” Your nipples can crack and bleed.

And the biggest injury is invisible — the wound the size of a dinner plate inside your uterus where the placenta detached. You bleed for six weeks because you are healing from the inside out.

We call it “recovery” but it is really “wound healing” while you are awake all night keeping another human alive.

If you just gave birth and you feel broken, sore, leaking, or not like yourself — you are not weak. You are injured and healing at the same time.

Rest is not laziness. Asking for help is not complaining.

You just did one of the hardest physical events a human body can do. Give yourself the same grace you give your newborn.

If you're a mother reply in the comments section.
Well, it's the price you pay, for making Adam eat that Apple. So you all should stop whining. Hehehe
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