C-Section Recovery: Pain Care, Exercise & Scar Management

C-section recovery involves managing pain with breastfeeding-safe medications while monitoring for signs of infection or internal bleeding. Toning the belly and safely returning to exercise like jogging or situps takes time.

Mother with baby on wheelchair and her doctor

Abdominal Problems After a C-Section

A C-section is the delivery of a baby through a surgical opening in the lower belly. It is estimated that in 2011 one-third of births in the United States required a C-section.

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