Postnatal Recovery — Emergency C-Section

Physical and emotional recovery support for your first six weeks after an emergency C-section.

An emergency C-section can be a lot to process. You're recovering from pregnancy, birth and major abdominal surgery — while potentially making sense of a birth that happened quickly, unexpectedly or very differently from the one you'd imagined.

This guide supports both sides of that recovery.

Inside, you’ll find guidance to help you:

• Understand what happened during your emergency C-section

• Understand what your body is physically recovering from

• Begin processing your birth experience and understand your options for further support

• Navigate wound healing and the early weeks

• Reconnect gently with your core and pelvic floor

• Follow progressive, week-by-week exercises

• Understand diastasis and doming

• Introduce sling carrying while protecting your healing scar and core

• Return to intimacy when you feel physically and emotionally ready

• Prepare for your six-week check and know when additional support may help

There's no “right” way to feel about your birth and no race to recover from it. This guide gives you practical support to understand what you've been through and move forward at your own pace.

Support for the birth you had — physically and emotionally.