Generally, it takes around 12 days after confinement to resume sexual intercourse. Confinement lasts for one month, and after another 12 days, which is 42 days after delivery, you can go to the hospital for a checkup. If it is found that the uterus has recovered well, and the incision of the perineum or abdominal incision has also healed well, with no abnormal secretions, then you can resume sexual intercourse on the 42nd day after delivery.

Points to Note:

1. Generally, on the 42nd day after childbirth, when women go for a follow-up examination, if the doctor determines that the mother's wound has basically healed, or the external genitalia wound has healed well, with clean lochia, good uterine involution, and good physical and psychological conditions, then they can resume sexual intercourse.

2. For mothers who have given birth naturally, sexual intercourse should not be resumed earlier than 6 to 8 weeks after childbirth. Premature intercourse, due to the vagina not yet returning to normal or the presence of lochia, may cause infection, leading to pelvic inflammatory disease, endometritis, or vaginal inflammation, which is not beneficial for physical recovery. You must wait until 42 days after childbirth, when the body has returned to normal, and there are no problems with the physical examination before resuming sexual intercourse.

3. For mothers who have undergone cesarean delivery, the time for resuming sexual intercourse after childbirth needs to be delayed by 1 month compared to mothers who have given birth naturally. Cesarean delivery involves opening the uterus through the abdomen, and wound recovery takes at least 3 months. Premature sexual intercourse may cause wound splitting, bleeding, puerperal infection, and even chronic pelvic inflammatory disease and other adverse consequences.