Best Sex Positions After C-Section: What’s Safe And What’s Not

Best Sex Positions After C-Section: What’s Safe And What’s Not

19 Apr 2022 | 4 min Read

Sayani Basu

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Postpartum sex can sometimes feel like an ordeal and if you have had a C-section, getting intimate with your partner can be even more challenging. In addition to that, your changing hormones can contribute to a low sex drive and the scars that are still healing after a cesarean can make it a painful experience.

While it is advisable to wait for at least six weeks before having sex after a C-section or until the doctor says it is safe.

Sometimes even after your doctor gives you the green signal, you mind and body might not be ready for it because of fear of painful intercourse. So how do you bring back that excitement in the bedroom without making it a painful experience especially after a C-section?

There is nothing to get disheartened as the best part about sex is that you can be experimental with it all the time, even if you had a C-section.

Here are some sex positions that might help you rekindle the intimate moments with your partner, after a C-section.

Sex positions where you’re on top are ideal as they give you full control. | Image Source: pexels

Try These Sex Positions To Bring Back The Zing In Your Sex Life After A C-Section

Sex after a C-section requires patience and it’s advisable to go slow keeping in mind the vaginal bleeding, the scar and most importantly your emotional state.

Some of these positions might help you slowly bring back that zing in the bedroom: 

  1. Spooning: This is probably the most gentle position to get back into sex after C-section, as this position requires minimal effort. 

This position requires both the partners to lie on their sides while facing the same direction. You bring your knees slightly up and your partner slides up behind your pelvis and enters you from behind. 

This way it does not put any pressure on your core muscles or abdomen.

It will also help him get to your G-spot. He can also give you clitoris stimulation too, simultaneously for a more pleasurable experience

  1. Side by side: All you need to do is lie side-by-side facing each other. Wrap your legs around your partner. Get closer to him and lock arms, while your  partner enters you slowly. This position makes for a very intimate and comforting position. Kissing and biting comes easily too when you are in this position.
  1. Reverse cowgirl: Unlike the traditional cowgirl position that has your pelvis grinding down stronger and putting pressure on your stomach area, you can try the reverse cowgirl position.

In the case of reverse cowgirl, you are totally in control. You can decide on the depth of penetration. Thus, this position is the perfect one for easing back to sex after a C-section.

  1. Standing doggy style: The conventional doggy style might be difficult while trying sex after C-section. So, you can try the standing style.

Stand facing the wall and allow your man to enter from behind. The standing doggy style provides for deep penetration with enough fondling and caresses and will make sex exciting and memorable for sure.

  1. Sitting up: Women-on-top can be a problem right after a C-section. So, you can help yourself with a better sitting position. Both of you need to sit, facing each other with legs wrapped around each other’s waist.

This would allow controlling the thrusts and the force during the intercourse and help you get closer.

Sex after a C-section requires patience | Image Source: freepik

Sex Positions You Should Avoid

Some of the sex positions that you should avoid are:

  1. Missionary: The traditional man-on-top position should be avoided as it could put a lot of pressure on the scar and this could hurt you.
  1. Cowgirl: The cowgirl position should be avoided as it puts pressure on your stomach.
  1. Doggy style: This position puts too much pressure on your core and pelvic area. Hence, it should be avoided after a C-section.
  1. Standing up: In case of standing up sex, there’s too much pressure on your torso and tummy. Thus, it is a risky position and must be avoided after a C-section.

Sex positions where you’re on top are ideal as they give you full control. You can decide on the level of contact with your abdomen and the depth of penetration.

Positions that involve side or rear entry will keep pressure off of the tender incision area.

The important thing to remember is to take it slow and easy, since you are still healing.

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