Got wheeled to my room on a bed cause I had a bleed and when I sat up to get up to have a shower came very close to passing out. I had DD at 8pm and didn't get to have a shower till 11am the next day. I felt so grotty and boy was that shower good!
DD1 i walked very gingerly... was in a lot of pain was about 5 hours after she was born
DD2 i spent the night in delivery as i was high maintances due to haemorrage, was wheeled in a wheel chair the next morning, i was too weak to walk, but was ok because i only had to worry about holding DD
i was wheeled on a bed from the theatre recovery to my room as i had a 2nd degree tear, DD was born at 11.02am and i went to my room at 1.30pm i still have no idea how long stitching me up took or how long it took for me to come around.
With DS I had an epidural and they wheeled me back to the room in the bed and I wasn't allowed to get up until mid morning the next day
With DD she was born in the bath at a birth center, when she was a few minutes old I got out of the bath with her and walked to the bed because she was getting cold. I was discharged two hours after the placenta was out and walked out to the car, went home and made lunch.
I walked while DH pushed the crib with DD. I remember commenting how when I had been there only a couple hours (and I was induced with gels so really NOTHING was happening at the time) I got moved from one delivery suite to the another and wheeled on a bed but going to my room after the delivery (about 20 tmes bigger distance) I walked! I had already had a shower and cleaned up and had breakfast by the time we moved and I was feeling FAB!
In a wheelchair. I had a shower and got into my jaamies in the birth suite and then a procession of midwives escorted me to the postnatal ward. One wheeled me, one pushed DS in his little crib, another found a tray of lunch for me and brought that then 2 others came along for the ride (must have been a quiet day for births) LOL I'm glad they wheeled me there, I felt fine but my legs were really shaky so it was hard to stand!
I walked with both my girls. I had a shower in the birth suits before I was moved both times, but we didn't move either time for hours after the birth so was feeling ok (a little hunched over due to a repeared tear, but still felt fine) both times!
I walked back to my room all 3 times after I'd showered and felt ready to. We were allowed to spend as much time in the birthing suite as we liked, with dd2 we spent a couple of hours there playing with her and introducing her to the kids etc.
First I was wheeled in 7hrs after delivery (didn't stand up until 20odd hrs later after birthing)
The second I walked. It was so weird after the first to be able to walk (and it was a walk as delivery suite is on a different floor to postnatal) and to be in my PJ's in my work place felt very odd.
I was in birth suite for 6 hours after DD1 and DS because I had any epidural both times. My epidural was turned off 15 mins before I started pushing with DD1 and as soon as I started pushing with DS but I have some weird reaction to it where my left leg stays completely numb for about 12 hours after - it happened in both my labours so I was completely unable to walk or bear weight. So I was in a wheel chair after both of their births.
I had a c/s with DD2 and was wheeled down on a bed while DD2 was taken upstairs to special care.
Here the birth suite is on the middle floor with maternity below and special care above and you have to walk through the main part of the hospital to get to the elevators ... not fun!
DD1 - i was 'stretchered' from the bathroom floor to the ambulance (holding DD1), taken into hosp, i spent the first night and part of the next day in the birthing suite as the ward was full but the next day i walked up (barefoot cos in the rush we forgot shoes & slippers).
DD2 - i had a shower, got dressed and then walked up, it was about 1am in the morning, it was so peaceful!
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was about 5 hours after she was born
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