C/s are painful, theres no doubt about it. I hear stories of women that say they had no pain at all, and I wonder if I'm just a wuss or it was because they wanted the op so it made it emotionally easier. With my c/s births I was home 2 days after, doing house work, so I think I have a good pain threshold. But I was still really sore. Even a month to 6 weeks after it hurt to get out of bed.

Not in any way to minimise the pain of a natural birth or trauma that women may have received, but I would choose 12 hours of terrible pain over 2 months of moderate to high pain. That's just me though.