Well, I know this is late but better late than never hey?
I went into Taree Manning Base Hospital on the 9th of March, due to have a c section the next morning at 8am. I hardly slept a wink all night. There was a girl in the bed next to me who was just given the gel and couldn't sleep either so it was nice to have a chat to get our minds off things. I was prepped for surgery at around 7am. The catheta was put in (ughh) and then I was wheeled up stairs. It was actually all very relaxed until the aneathetists came to give me my drip and put the spinal in. I got onto the table and the two of them were behind me muttering to themselves. At one stage I heard one of them say "Oh, I just hit the bone." It was pretty painful but I sucked it up and waited to feel my legs going numb. After about 15/20 minutes of them trying to put the spinal in, one of them told me that I was carrying too much weight and they couldn't get it in. I ended up having a general and woke up in the recovery room, freezing. They wrapped me in a tonne of warm towels and blankets and I was taken back to my room. I felt pretty good, better than after the spinals with my previous two c secs. I was actually very alert andfelt fantastic. I had a self medicating machine thing (not sure exactly what they are called? PDA?) with fentenol. That drug is fantastic for pain releif! I found out Cailan Tate was delivered at around 9:15, weighing 8lbs 12ozs, 52cms long and hc of 36.5cms. He was put to the breast at 11:15. He took right to it and I was so releived (I had trouble feeding both DS#1 and #2). I ended up with an infection in my right lung and also a UTI. *Linda* came to visit me in hospital and it was really great to have a visitor. Since I live in Gloucester, an hour away from Taree, I had hardly any visits from my family. It was very lonely. I left hospital the following Wednesday and I was so happy to be home. Cailan is now 8 weeks old and I can't even remember the pain. I feel a bit funny not knowing what happened in theatre but I will never know. It is sad not being awake when your baby comes into the world, not hearing his first cries but I am looking on the positive that he was healthy and beautiful.