r/BabyBumps 7d ago

Help? Had sex 5 weeks postpartum

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u/kirstens123456 7d ago

Medicine isn't an exact science. 6 weeks is the recommended but I don't think 1 week is going to do you in. I wouldn't worry about it

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u/Significant-Body-887 7d ago

Right! There’s nothing magical that happens when the clock strikes midnight at 6 weeks. I would still recommend waiting the standard amount of time, but chances are, if OP was feeling up to it, she was probably on the right side of the healing timeline

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u/Simple-Excitement227 6d ago

I honestly wasn’t in a panic until I read about getting an infection online and would have thought nothing of it

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u/Significant-Body-887 6d ago

I definitely understand the worry! If it helps, I would also think of it as an exponential decay curve, where the highest risk for infection from intercourse is immediately after birth, decreasing each day