How long after caesarean section can I have a second child

Women who have undergone cesarean section will need a longer time to recover, especially if the uterine incision does not heal well, which can have a great impact on health. Therefore, after a cesarean section, the time for having a second child should be as long as possible to avoid scars from the cesarean section. Generally, doctors recommend that the second child should be given two years after the first child so that the mother has fully recovered.

Under normal circumstances, caesarean section does not affect pregnancy and you can have a normal pregnancy. However, if the uterine incision does not heal well after a caesarean section and the woman becomes pregnant too early, it may affect the mother's physical recovery and the safety of the fetus. If a cesarean section is performed too early in the pregnancy, the development of the fetus will cause the uterus to continue to grow and the uterine wall to become thinner. The connective tissue at the cesarean section incision lacks elasticity, which is not conducive to the safety of the fetus.

In addition, scars are easily left after cesarean section. Fresh scars can easily rupture in the late pregnancy or during delivery, causing massive abdominal bleeding and even life-threatening risks. Therefore, it is best to have a second child after a caesarean section two years after delivery, so that the mother's body has fully recovered, which is conducive to pregnancy. After pregnancy, you should go to the hospital for check-up and delivery to avoid danger.

However, for some women, their uterus recovers well after cesarean section or their own recovery ability is strong, so they do not need to wait two years for regeneration after cesarean section, but they should consider pregnancy at least one year later. It is worth noting that if you want to get pregnant again after a caesarean section, you must go to the hospital to check the recovery of the uterus.

After a cesarean section, there is a wound and the intra-abdominal pressure suddenly decreases, the abdominal muscles relax, and the intestinal peristalsis slows down, which makes it easy to have constipation. Therefore, the diet arrangement after a cesarean section should be different from that after a natural birth. After 6 hours, it is advisable to take some liquid gas-generating foods (such as carrot soup, etc.) to enhance intestinal peristalsis, promote gas discharge, reduce abdominal distension, and make urination and defecation smooth. Postpartum women should also eat less or no foods that are easily fermented and produce a lot of gas, such as sugars, soybeans, soy milk, starch, etc., to prevent abdominal bloating.

Passing gas is a sign that the new mother can eat. After the mother has passed gas, her diet can be changed from liquid to semi-liquid. The food should be nutritious and easy to digest. Such as egg soup, porridge, noodles, etc., and then the diet will gradually return to normal depending on the mother's physical condition.

On the first day after surgery, the patient is generally fed with liquid food such as porridge, rice noodles, lotus root powder, fruit juice, fish soup, and meat soup, which are given in 6-8 doses. On the second day after the operation, you can eat some thin, soft, and rotten semi-liquid food, such as minced meat, liver paste, fish, and rotten noodles.