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!
Obviously with the first two being c-sections I was wheeled back to my room and just transferred onto the bed that way.
With DD2 I walked into the lounge area of the birth centre, and had a nice cup of tea, and chatted to the midwives until I felt a heap of blood come out, then they made me walk to the toilet, and saw how much was coming out, gave me a needle and watched until it had stopped to a normal level. Then I hobbled to the bed because I felt like I had been hit by a truck... LOL.. then a couple of hours later I went home and had a shower.
With DS1 I was much the same as you, hitched a ride in a wheel chair with a blanket covering my bare bottom LOL. That's the only reason, I was a mess all over & only had my top to put back on. But soon after I was in my room & had a shower I walked DS down to the main area to bath him at just a few hours old.
With DS2 I had him in about 20minutes, showered up in the ward then held onto his cot (for balance) and pushed him back to our room....was a tad wobblely due to the shock of it all happening so very quickly.
Had DS at 4 49am, had a shower then went to sleep for a few hours, got woken up for breakfast and BF DS (all by myself ) while I ate.
Then pushed DS in his cot (using it for support) to our room at about 8 or 9am ish.
I remember walking to the lift and the MW saying DS was "lucky to have such a calm Mummy". The rest is blank, but I made it there so must have been ok. Lol
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!
DS1 I can't remember - I think I walked pushing him the the plastic crib thingy
DS2 I was in a bed - I had a PPH, then fainted so they cathertered me and didn't allow me to get up for a day (when I did I fainted again so wasn't allowed up for another day)
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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