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Your First Dump After Birth Hold onto your mesh postpartum panties, "Your First Dump After Birth" isn't going where you think it is! The majority of women who've given birth have some reservations about the possibility of tearing open their vagina or cesarean incision with that first post-birth bowel movement. That's another blog for another day! Today we'll focus on the hormonal changes that happen after giving birth; the hormonal dump! Just as hormones change from pre-pr