My midwife told me that it's because everything is still healing and really open to infection ... particularly if you've had some tearing and whatever else.
As tonnes of other people have already said, but I thought I'd say it too. :-)
Lochia isn't always a tsunami of blood though, so you might not need to wear the giant pad of giantness (OT: When I first started using pads, the normal size ones were what is now considered bigger than giant ... I sometimes look at the current ones and think to myself "WTF is this? A panty-liner or something?").
It also might be that for the first week or so the very idea of ANYTHING going anywhere NEAR the area will be a great big no.
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Date: 2010-03-01 03:43 am (UTC)As tonnes of other people have already said, but I thought I'd say it too. :-)
Lochia isn't always a tsunami of blood though, so you might not need to wear the giant pad of giantness (OT: When I first started using pads, the normal size ones were what is now considered bigger than giant ... I sometimes look at the current ones and think to myself "WTF is this? A panty-liner or something?").
It also might be that for the first week or so the very idea of ANYTHING going anywhere NEAR the area will be a great big no.