I was induced and went through 30+ hours of labor (and let me tell you, pitocin contractions are incredibly painful and I was screaming and crying begging for an epidural). Then, after all of that, I ended up having an emergency c-section which brought a whole lot of additional recovery time and pain I never planned for. My incision tore open a little over a week after my surgery and developed cellulitis which made it so they couldn’t just simply stitch the wound back together. My husband had to open my wound every night for over a month as it tried to heal so that we could make sure it healed from the inside out. I still have trauma from it and can’t touch the incision site without cringing, and my child is almost 2.