Just After C-Section

[XXLINZIXX]

I'm booked in for a section in 3 weeks, can anyone who has already had one let me know about just afterwards in the recovery room - will the midwives be helping me to get cleaned up and changed etc before I am moved on to the ward?

Also, how long is it until the anaesthetic wares off and I will be able to get up? Just a bit concerned about looking after my twins during the first night with husband at home and no doubt very few midwives on duty.

Thank you.

 

[Gemble]

A nurse came and helped me get cleaned up and changed afterwards I would say ud be catheterised until at least the next day so there won't be much moving about afterwards. Enough to change and feed them while sitting on the bed though I got up and WALKED to see my baby in NICU 2 hours after my c-section as they had no wheel chairs and I was determined to see her. Not saying that's a good idea but I was mobile apart from that pesky catheter!

Xxx

 

[Pink_Pixie]

I didn't really move at all for 24 hours after just sat up in bed, had a catheter which was taken out the next day and was told to go toilet and try and move around a little bit... Even if it was just to get out of bed and into the chair next to it. The midwives help you wash if you struggle and they also had to help me feed LO as I'm short and couldn't lean over the crib properly to get him out the midwives were busy at night but still get to you if you need help (the buzzer you have is a godsend lol) but also if you're knackered ( I'd had no sleep to 3 days... Loooong induction ending in EMCS) the midwives will take your LO's to the nursery and look after them for a few hours while you catch up on sleep a bit. Good luck

 

[katy1310]

I had a midwife sitting with me all afternoon immediately afterwards but I don't know if that's because I was quite ill with pre eclampsia. She changed the pad for me etc. Next morning I had to get a bed bath which I hated! and got changed into my own nightie. I wasn't allowed up properly till 2 days after having Sophie (apart from getting up out of bed to get into a wheelchair to go and see Sophie in NICU) but I think they usually get you up quicker than that. I had the catheter in till that day, but I was allowed up and had a shower, then they took the catheter out and I walked around quite a bit that day. I think the quicker you get up and about, the easier the recovery is.

Good luck

xx

 

[ChezTunes]

A midwife changed my pad on the ward with the curtains closed, I couldn't feel my legs for a while after (couple of hours until I got complete feeling back in both legs) so obviously couldn't do it myself. She was there to help if I needed it and helped me get washed/changed for evening visitors. She was really nice and it turned out I knew her boyfriends family, so even though I didn't know HER - that was comforting. The night staff at the hospital I was at were brilliant! One night, she wouldn't settle and one of the MW's asked if I'd like her to take LO to the MW station (there's no nursery and it wasn't busy) so I could get some rest. There was one evening/night I had the whole room to myself because no one came in until early hours in the morning

I was up twice the same night I had my op. She was born at 2:22PM and they asked me to get up and walk to the bathroom to change my pad just so I was up and about. They helped me do this of course and it was abit sore but I was amazed at how "easy" it was! The cathater was abit odd but that was out the next morning. I got up again to tend to LO as I felt I could and [TMI] I leaked so I had to go sort myself out (with help) again. Honestly, the worst thing for me was the canula. It hurt leaning on my hand to get out of bed with that still stuck in... Mine had to be taken out as it was really painful, I had a black scab around it and they hadn't flushed it at all. That was the only complaint I have!! That and the dreadful part when OH had to go home at 7PM but that's just policy and no one can help that.

 

[Scally]

Wow your hospitals sound fantastic- in mine the after care was appalling and at one point the MW shouted at me alot because i couldnt get out of bed to change my LO's nappy....... having another baby soon, c section, same hospital, maybe its time to re-think the location! x

 

[babyblog]

I'm booked in for a section in 3 weeks, can anyone who has already had one let me know about just afterwards in the recovery room - will the midwives be helping me to get cleaned up and changed etc before I am moved on to the ward?

Also, how long is it until the anaesthetic wares off and I will be able to get up? Just a bit concerned about looking after my twins during the first night with husband at home and no doubt very few midwives on duty.

Thank you.

Hiya, with my second I was in recovery for around 6 hours - until I could feel my legs again and blood pressure and everything else all ok. With the second I didn't go down to the ward until midnight so had the catheter overnight therefore no getting out of bed but with my first I had him at 6 am and it was out by the evening so I could get up. It is hard the first night on your own but youl have them next to you and you'll be able to sit up to get them out their cots to feed them. Just use the buzzer and ask fir help if you can't pck them up by yourself, in a busy ward I think you need to be assertive and ask for help.

 

[Arisa]

hi there, it depends if you have a spinal which Quick in quick but wears off quicker or an epidural. The spinal wore off very quickly for me within the hour after the section and being ill also with pre eclampsiaI had a midwife with me for two hours post op to administer morphine then they wheeled my bed into the special baby unit so I could be with my little girl for the night but yeah I was on heavy pain relief and slept with baby and my husband by my side on a lazy boy chair the first night and was eating six hours after the operation, they did give me sponge bath and change my pad regularly too but 24 hours afterward I was up walking and had a shower and it was not half as bad as I had thought I mean yes they first two to three days are rough but the more walking you do the easier it gets and try to shower every day, I did and still do even if it hurts at first and they removed my catheter just before my 24hr post op shower and i barely felt a thing. so they wont leave you lying there, dont worry and you wont have to change your pad or worry about picking up your babies to change and feed them as you will have nurses and midwives to help with that

four weeks on and it still hurts to pick my baby up out of her bassinet or off her change table but I do it but it does not hurt to hold her or feed or change her but give yourself time especially with twins too and keep up with the pain relief they give you, do not say no to it