How long after a caesarean section can you have another baby? Women must know

Many people choose cesarean section because the surgical procedure is simple, the delivery process is short, and the pain of delivery is very light. However, cesarean section can cause damage to the human uterus. So how long after a cesarean section can you have another child? Let us take a look at it together below.

1. Regarding this issue, Chinese and Western obstetricians have slightly different opinions. Many foreign studies have shown that you should wait at least six months after a caesarean section before trying to get pregnant again. For example, British obstetricians believe that women should not have more than three caesarean sections, and after a caesarean section, they should wait one year before getting pregnant again. Compared with Western doctors, many Chinese doctors are more cautious about this issue. They suggest that it is safer to get pregnant again at least two years after a caesarean section. This is because the development of the fetus causes the uterus to continue to grow and the uterine wall to become thinner. In particular, the incision of the caesarean section is connective tissue and lacks elasticity. If you get pregnant too early, the fresh scar can easily rupture in the late pregnancy or during delivery, causing massive abdominal bleeding and even life-threatening.

2. In fact, every mother's physical condition is different. How long it takes to regenerate after a cesarean section depends on the recovery of the woman's uterus after the cesarean section. If the woman's uterus recovers well after the cesarean section or the woman's own recovery ability is strong, regeneration after the cesarean section does not need to wait for two years.

In order to avoid the dangers of uterine rupture, heavy bleeding during childbirth, etc. caused by unsatisfactory uterine recovery, after deciding to have a second child, you must go to a regular hospital to check the recovery of the uterus. Everyone's uterine recovery ability is different. Whether and when you can have a second child should follow the doctor's advice.

3. Nowadays, most uterine incisions for cesarean sections are transverse incisions in the lower uterine segment. In otherwise healthy women, these incisions usually heal well. Several studies suggest that cesarean section scars on the uterus continue to grow longer after they have fully healed. The longer you have to recover from a cesarean section, the less likely it is that something will go wrong. A foreign study that surveyed 170 women showed that if the interval between two pregnancies is less than 6 months, the risk of scar rupture will greatly increase.

4. If the interval between two pregnancies is short, the possibility of placental problems may increase. A large-scale survey of 187,577 women in the United States showed that becoming pregnant again within one year after a cesarean section increases the risk of placenta previa and placental abruption (the placenta detaches from the uterine wall prematurely). But of course, the likelihood of such a risk occurring is generally small.