We ended up going to the hospital in the middle of the night last night as my stitches were leaving me in agony; they'd just been getting worse I was planning on showing them to the MW who was meant to arrive for the 5-day check-up yesterday but she NEVER TURNED UP with not so much as a phonecall.. But that's another story..
So anyway, got looked at up the hospital, and basically the stitches are coming apart and are loose, and I have a nice painful gaping wound down there which is also starting to become infected I have two courses of antibiotics and some painkillers (which aren't that great due to BFing) but they wont stitch me back up!! The area is "too sensitive" or something. What the hell?? So I'm told "just keep it clean" .. What do you think I've been doing?? I clean it every time I go to the toilet, and I bathe twice a day.. If I was doing that and an open wound still became infected what makes them think it wont get worse now?? This is agony!
Ontop of that, BFing is unbelieveably painful, and it was hard enough to try and get comfy to feed with the stitches.. In trying to move around to get comfy to make the feed less painful, I've now ended up pulling my back! So I can't feed properly as it hurts, I cant pick her up if she's down on the changing mat, or if she's in the moses basket and I'm laying down as it's too painful.. Poor DH is having to run around and do everything for me and I can't even do something as simple as getting comfy for a feed so I'm stressing the whole way through
So anyway, got looked at up the hospital, and basically the stitches are coming apart and are loose, and I have a nice painful gaping wound down there which is also starting to become infected I have two courses of antibiotics and some painkillers (which aren't that great due to BFing) but they wont stitch me back up!! The area is "too sensitive" or something. What the hell?? So I'm told "just keep it clean" .. What do you think I've been doing?? I clean it every time I go to the toilet, and I bathe twice a day.. If I was doing that and an open wound still became infected what makes them think it wont get worse now?? This is agony!
Ontop of that, BFing is unbelieveably painful, and it was hard enough to try and get comfy to feed with the stitches.. In trying to move around to get comfy to make the feed less painful, I've now ended up pulling my back! So I can't feed properly as it hurts, I cant pick her up if she's down on the changing mat, or if she's in the moses basket and I'm laying down as it's too painful.. Poor DH is having to run around and do everything for me and I can't even do something as simple as getting comfy for a feed so I'm stressing the whole way through