How long after giving birth can you have sex?

It is understandable that many women want to know how long they can wait before they can have sex after giving birth. However, many women think that they can have sex normally as long as the lochia disappears. In fact, this idea is incorrect, because if the uterus of a woman has not recovered after giving birth, she cannot have sex.

Generally, after giving birth, the cervix of a woman cannot close completely for a period of time. If she has sex at this time, it can easily cause ascending bacterial infection, leading to gynecological inflammations such as cervicitis and pelvic inflammatory disease. So, how long after giving birth can you have sex?

How long you can have sex after giving birth is determined by the way the mother delivers (natural birth or caesarean section), her postpartum recovery, etc. The appropriate time for having sex is 2 months after a natural birth and 3 months after a caesarean section. It also varies depending on each person's specific physical recovery.

For normal delivery, the general confinement period, that is, the postpartum period, is 42 days. This period is the repair period of the endometrium. After the postpartum period, if there is no abnormality in the mother's body, theoretically, she can have sex. The mother should go to the hospital for a check-up 42 days after delivery and follow the doctor's guidance based on her own physical recovery. Having sex too early can cause great harm to the mother's body.

Generally speaking, the appropriate time for women who give birth naturally is 2 months after delivery. The reason for waiting for such a long time is that it takes about 8 weeks for the female reproductive organs to return to normal. The vaginal mucosa that is stretched during childbirth becomes very thin and easily damaged, and it takes some time to recover.

As for how long you can wait after a caesarean section before having sex, medical research suggests that it is best to wait three months after a caesarean section, because a caesarean section requires a surgical incision, and having sex must wait until the caesarean section wound heals.

After knowing how long you can have sex after giving birth, I hope you can pay attention to hygiene during sex and normal contraception, because women may have normal menstruation after giving birth. If you do not take good contraceptive measures at this time, you may still get pregnant.