@ohnstadk I totally get it. I ballooned but I was warned thank goodness. It took a while for me. And softeners where my best friend. Don't stress. It will get better. But it sucks!

It was at least a week after we got home that I had a real poop. I used Stool softeners. The swelling took like two weeks at least.

Day 2 pp for the poo with the help of stool softeners. I had a tremendous amount of swelling, I drank tons of water, put my feet up and put ice packs on my feet ankles and legs. I didn't think of it myself my hubby made my lay down for 3 days only to get up if absolutely necessary and put the ice packs on. After day three (which was about 2 weeks pp) my feet legs and ankles were almost back to normal size.

@sorcha regarding the swelling ugh....no really thought I would stop swelling after I wasn't pregnant... now it is even worse and believe me it was so so so bad before

@sorcha my first bm was too... super watery honestly on day 2 post surgery, but nothing since despite softners... it's so wierd!

@babymay2016 goodness that is like forever

@taylorsmommy1017 I got some over the counter, they gave them to me in the hospital, I had 2 small very liquid bms on day 2 after surgery and nothing since, but I've been taking stool softener since then

@kellyjc do you know what finally made you go?

First bm I had was when I was still in hospital. So 1 or 2 days post c section. I was given softeners right away. And I had eaten during labour.... emergency c section.
After the first one I kept taking softeners until I felt no pain without pain killers.
Swelling took a long time for me. The first bit took almost two weeks. I think it was all gone by 8 or 10 weeks. I definitely still had some at 6 weeks. Lots of water is said to help reduce the swelling. My body apparantly didn't think it needed to reduce the fluid as much (maybe because I was nursing).

At leasssst a week or two. Take some colace stool softners everyday

I was constipated my entire pregnancy it was about 2 weeks