Guess what I just did??

I took a nice relaxing BATH!
Not a *real* bath, mind you--the water came to just barely touching the tops of my thighs, so the incision wouldn't get all wet. But it may as well have been a dip in a jacuzzi! What a wonderful feeling! Bless emschlo (Elizabeth) for the idea! I feel like a new woman!
I just wanted to share this happiness with you!

I'm not sure but I don't think you are supposed to immerse your vagina either. You don't want to get infection in the internal stitches either.

Kellyb,

Your post just cracked me up and hurt my swelly belly from laughing!!

How come you cannot take a regular bath? My gyn said to take daily tub soaks to help with discharge (yuck--don't have any yet) and with pain, then just to blow dry the strip across my stitches. It's strange how a lot of doctors say different things huh?

Have fun in your shallow soak!!!

(I'll write you more tomorrow..gonna get some sleep!!)

Oooooooh Kellybelle, I think you might be in trouble. I think the bath might be out too, you better be careful. Just kidding , I know it was WONDERFUL, I have been taking baths all along, DR okay'd me from day one and I have one almost everyday. It seems to help me alot with the swelly belly (even if just for a while) and helps some with discomfort too.

Congratulations. It's funny the things that mean so much to us now.

Take care. Dawn

OOOOHHHHH - I am jealous! I will see if I can take baths tomorrow at my 6 week checkup. I was bad and went swimming the other day though...wonder if dr will notice? I didn't fill up with water though. HAHA

Well Kelly take a nice bubbly one for me. We have a hot tub in our house and its really hard not to get in. Especially being so sore at the end of the day. Hope all is well.

Hey!!! I wanna bath too! Waah!

You know, I am going to call my DR on this one. I don't see the harm in it, if the tub is sanitized, the water very clean...I mean I wash down south each time I shower So what could be the big deal? I'm a chicken, so I'm gonna call the DR on this first, but I have been dying for a soak in the tub. And two weeks and 3 more days till my six week mark seems like forever.

It's hard to be a
when you can't spend your evenings soaking in the tub! My normal routine is to take a bubble bath EVERY night. So when the
said no baths, well, he might as well have shot an arrow through my


forever jealous,
Fly Girl

Since everyone's surgery is a little bit different, the safest thing to do is ask your DR when you can have a tub bath. Mine did not give permission until the six week appt.

Dr told me NO BATH til my 6 week check up. She said it is because my cervix was removed and that where it used to be could come apart (stitches I am guessing) and cause bleeding. I have sat in shallow water to shave..swelly belly bothers me bending down to get the job done. I also am about 3 weeks...but i only have a 6 week check up and I have only been to the DR one time...and that was stitch removal...Should I be seen now? I feel fine and am getting back to normal.

Wow, it is amazing how different each situation is, I guess! The pre-printed discharge instructions I was given at the hospital said tub baths were perfectly fine after one week post-op, so I took advantage, and it felt heavenly! I had TVH, so no external incision to worry about, but I was concerned before surgery whether I'd need to avoid baths with all the vaginal stitches. I was so happy when the instructions said I only needed to wait a week for a nice soak.

I would imagine another reason some docs/hospitals don't want hysterectomy patients taking baths for awhile is because of having to carefully sit down into the tub and then get yourself back up and out again. Anyway, I was sure glad to be able to enjoy a nice soak in the tub!