I did it!! LMAO I feel like a kid learning to use the potty all over again..SIGH!

It didn't hurt at all, in fact it hurts more to wee than to do anything else. Still going to continue using the tea tree oil and warm water to help speed up the healing hopefully.

I had load of stitches with my first and i found if i held a pad tightly over the stitches when i went to poo it really helped and helped with the fear that they would break.

Warm water when you pee is awsome and salty baths helped! I also dried with a hair dryer. When i got my second lot i did it all as the first were put in to tight and burst (well before i managed to poo) and got infected but all of the above helped even then before the next ones went in!

I hope you heal quickly! they are the worst part afterwards i thought!

i just give birth to my little boy on sunday der. i have stitchs 2 plus i had 2 get cut down der. i was reali scared 2 go 2 the loo. my midwife told me 2 eat kiwi n it did the trick n i didnt think it hurt.

I don't know if this will be of any help, but a nurse recommended an ointement called EMLA to "numb" the skin near the stitches. She said lots of women have pain when they begin to heal and so I bought it. I didn't need it, but heard great comments about it. In Canada, you'll have to ask the pharmacist, but you won't need a prescription. If you buy it, get the smallest tube as it's not cheap. A tube approx. the size of a ring finger costs about 14$ Canadian. But you use it sparingly so it may be worth it!

i was told at the hospital to keep ice on it and it did help --- there they would make an ice pack out of a baby diaper by tearing it open on the top and inserting the ice cubes and closing it back up and using it that way===plus it doubled as a pad ---so it worked great=---did it for about a week and a half and then was back to normal =-----*(had three stitches)

I was checking out this sight to get reminders on wha to do--I'm due in 3 1/2 weeks. I had 23 stiches with my last baby. He was over 9 lbs and I am very small. Witch hazel pads really helped with the pain, and when I had a bowel movement taking a clean pad and applying pressure upward while bearing down to have bowel movement helped alot. The doc told me to try that and it did help. Also my doc gave me a stool softener. It will get better, hang in there.