Reddit mentions of MomWasher Peri Bottle for PostPartum Care by Fridababy - Perineal Recovery After Birth

Get the vag-sprayer that has the flipped nozzle.

I didn't and then I had carpal tunnel so bad I couldn't feel my fingertips. It wasn't impossible to to use the one the hospital provided but the flipped nozzle would've been easier.

Yeah! I almost forgot to mention peri bottles my favorite one is the mom washer it's very inexpensive on amazon

Dermaplast, Tuck’s pads, and always, always spray with water when peeing. The Fridet is worth every penny.

I had second-degree tears, too. I know it seems like the pain will stay forever right now but it does get better! It’ll take a while, though. I don’t remember when I first started feeling noticeably better. Maybe two or three weeks?

In the meantime, ask for rx strength ibuprofen if you don’t already have some or just take three OTC pills at a time for the pain.

A great book, I highly recommend this:
https://www.amazon.com/Fourth-Trimester-Postpartum-Balancing-Restoring/dp/1611804000


Some products I liked

Earth Mama Organic Perineal Balm- it’s very healing. I really liked this product.

Better than your regular perineal squirt bottle although those are good too. Don’t forget to keep one in your diaper bag in the early weeks. You can use warm water but alcohol free witch hazel is good.
https://www.amazon.com/FridaBaby-006-Fridababy-Fridet-MomWasher/dp/B00VO65XB0

You’re probably going to want Dermaplast (the blue can) and Tucks Witch Hazel pads to place along your pads. Cooling and soothing.


Preferred these to pads:
https://www.amazon.com/Always-Discreet-Incontinence-Postpartum-Disposable/dp/B074SWPPWJ

A sitz bath and something nice to soak your bits in. :) https://www.amazon.com/Sitz-Bath-Salt-Postpartum-Hemorrhoid/dp/B07HY7R9J4 There are lots of different good soaking products out there.

A belly band of some kind. I called mine the “mommy swaddle”. :)

I bought the Fridet

The hospital will also give me a peri bottle, so I plan on keeping one in each bathroom so I'm not carrying it around.

Deep clean the bathroom - especially the tub. They'll tell you to take lots of baths to help with postpartum healing, and that will be nicer in a sparkly clean tub.

If you think you have enough burp cloths, buy a few more. I did not anticipate just how useful they are.

Buy this thing. It looks silly, but it's so much better than the one the hospital gives you that it not even funny. Dermaplast and Tucks pads are great, but this thing brought me the most relief of all.

While you're at it, stock up on granola bars and instant oatmeal. They're faster than fast food. Our freezer space is limited, so meal prep was impossible. But granola and oatmeal are shelf stable.

Get a few novels. Infants like to hear your voice, but their comprehension isn't there yet so it doesn't matter what you say. It's nice to read while nursing. For the first weeks they don't actually look at picture books, so you can read anything you want, not just baby books.

Find out what the daycare wants you to have in advance. That way you don't have to go shopping on your way home with the baby on the first day to pick up the things you didn't know they would need.

Get a box to stash the clothes baby grows out of. It happens sooner than you may think. I was sure that mine would be in newborn clothes still when I returned to work. He grew out of them in just over three weeks. He's now working on outgrowing all his socks.

And then get more burp cloths. Not kidding.

4th degree tear here, it gets better but it feels like it won't for a while.
I was given an inflatable cushion to sit on and I absolutely had to use it while sitting.

There were days when I really didn't think I was healing, and then around 6 weeks I started feeling way better, by 8 weeks I felt almost normal. It sounds like a long time when you're in the bleeding shit hole that is post-partum, but it will blur together.


I bought the fridababy momwasher (https://www.amazon.com/FridaBaby-006-Fridababy-Fridet-MomWasher/dp/B00VO65XB0)
I liked it better than the perri bottle.


Those ice packs the hospital gives out were essential for the first couple days, then I used witch hazel pads and dermoplast on huge hospital pads. They helped cool everything down and stop itching.

Take motrin for the pain and stool softeners for longer than you think you have to. I stopped because I thought the first poo was the part I had to worry about and regretted it.

Drink a ton of water, this is not nether region related but my ankles reaaallly swelled about 4 days PP and the only cure was drinking a ton of water. Be sure you remember to eat. With learning how to breast feed and being in pain, I didn't want to eat PP either.

Good luck and enjoy the babe!

I literally can’t live without this thing. There are a lot of different versions out there but this is the one I’ve used for a while. It can get water everywhere if I’m not careful but that’s no big deal to me.

There are also bidets that you can get as an attachment on your toilet but I share a bathroom with roommates and I don’t think it’d be sanitary enough for my liking. So I use my fancy “peri bottle” bidet.

https://www.amazon.com/FridaBaby-006-Fridababy-Fridet-MomWasher/dp/B00VO65XB0/ref=asc_df_B00VO65XB0/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=198079638645&hvpos=1o2&hvnetw=g&hvrand=8437128229911092654&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9005292&hvtargid=pla-393808505021&psc=1

These are things I wish I had invested in the first time around OR that I did invest in and was so glad I did:

• Some Depends. I know that no one really wants to wear adult diapers but they were amazing when my water broke. I was completely soaking through the most absorbent overnight pads I owned in about 10-15 minutes and the hospital was 45 minutes from my home. I finally remembered I had some Depends "just in case" and oh man 1 of them lasted the last 20 minutes or so I was getting stuff together, the trip to the hospital and the time it took to get settled into a room in L&D. I'm pretty sure it would have lasted a good bit longer also if needed. 10/10 highly recommend.
  
  
• At least 1 good peri bottle. Yes you'll get one from the hospital probably. But do you really want to carry it around the house or always have to go back to the same bathroom because it has your peri bottle? I have a 2 story townhome and I hated being downstairs and then having to go all the way back upstairs just to pee because that's where my peri bottle was. I know stairs sound like no big deal but that first day or two home from the hospital they really feel like a big deal. Plus the peri bottle I got from the hospital started looking like it was going to break just any time, which would of course be awful. I finally invested in a Fridet mom washer and I can highly recommend it. It was easier to use than the peri bottle I got from the hospital and it felt far more durable.
  
  
• Tucks pads. My hospital supplied them during my stay but didn't give me any to take home when I was discharged. They were still the best thing ever for the first week or two (or longer, I'm not sure) after discharge.
  
  
• This is one I've never seen anywhere probably because it's a very uncommon problem. I really, really wish I had seen it somewhere though because it would have saved me so much agony. If you have sensitivities to some commercial pads like Always you should 100% invest in some cloth PP pads. I get bad eczema from Always pads. Like really bad: my skin blisters, gets super hard, cracks and then peels till I have no skin left in the affected area. I thought "oh I'll just avoid Always pads and I'll be golden!" WRONG. So wrong. I didn't take any pads with me to the hospital because I thought they'd supply pads. They did but I apparently had a very similar, though not quite as bad, reaction as I do to Always pads. And then once my skin was already so incredibly irritated even pads that are normally very safe for me were too much. The only pads I could use without a lot of pain, itching and worsening of the skin problems were cloth pads. I ordered some on-line but it took a couple of days to get them and those days I spent waiting were the worst. So if you have issues with "normal" disposable pads please learn from my mistakes and get some cloth pads ahead of time. And take them to the hospital with you. Also figure out some way to do something similar to the "padcicles" everyone talks about with the cloth pads or using something else that isn't a disposable pad. Having something cold down there after delivery is so amazing.
  
  
• Reusable breast pads. This is especially true if you fall into the category mentioned above of people who have sensitives to disposable menstrual pads. Apparently disposable nursing pads are made with something similar?
  
  
• Get a donut pillow to sit on for those first couple of days home if you have a vaginal delivery. Alternatively, if you have a mini snoogle you can use that. This is so important. It was the only way I was able to sit without tremendous pain those first couple of days home.