After A Caesar - How Much Help Did You Need In The Hospital?

[feeb]

Up and moving 12 hrs after a cs is the norm as you need to get moving to avoid DVT.

Most woman need help up to the shower and once up are ok.

First 12 hrs you will need help, buzz the mw that's what they are there for to help!! They know that after a cs woman are stuck in bed and don't like feeling helpless.

After I was up I showered then bathed baby and was doing eveything for myself. You are different as you have SPD severly but you still need to get up and do things for you and your baby. They will not be asking you to walk a marathon but to get out of bed to change baby, etc is not to much giving that you can lie in bed to feed etc.

[didispunk]

OH ya i forgot about DVT they are concerned about that as well. I changed baby on the bed while i was sitting there etc, that was not hard to do as I was trying to do as much as I can to help the MW and Doc etc and bond with baby!

[fionas]

You are different as you have SPD severly but you still need to get up and do things for you and your baby. They will not be asking you to walk a marathon but to get out of bed to change baby, etc is not to much giving that you can lie in bed to feed etc.

I'm really not interested in debating whether my physio is right or wrong about the 24 hours thing. Naturally, I will have another conversation with her before the caesar and see what's OK and what's not but I won't be taking advice from well-meaning people who just happen to have had caesars themselves but know nothing of my own medical background.

Wysiwyg and Jandals - that's all very encouraging, thank you!

[didispunk]

Fionas only trying to give advicee on the name of the tread
"After A Caesar - How Much Help Did You Need In The Hospital?"

Feeb is a MW, so I guess her taking care of others in hospital with bad bad bed rested SPD just giving you some advice on her experiences with other patients with worse SPD or just really bad.

As its MW in there caring for you.

[fionas]

The midwives in hospital last time didn't have a clue about SPD - I don't know whether feeb does or not. That's why I'll primarily be taking the advice of my physio who has treated thousands of women with SPD.

[feeb]

Lots of woman have it, I had it worse in my 1st preg than my 2nd.

MW work with physios and other allied health professionals ALL the time we refer woman too then for various things, its called collaborative care.

If physio writes a managment care it will be followed, when woman have SPD physio's generally should give them or place in history positions for birthing that will not further aggrivate there pelvis

[fionas]

Like I said, I will check with my physio but despite what you've said feeb, I'm not convinced that the condition is widely understood by the midwifery or obstetric, for that matter, profession. It took me 18 months to recover from my first birth and if you've read any of my previous threads on SPD you will know the impact this has had on my life, relationships, finances and choice of where to live.

I trust my physio - I will primarily be taking her advice, not anyone else's on 'how long' before I can do this or that.

[Beatrix]

Isnt SPD a pg related condition?

therefor MW will pretty much be in the know about how its cared for since they treat pg women?

I know even after natural births (SPD in last pg) the MW were great with me.. told me to rest up and def no marathons for the first 24hrs lol .. but i was required to walk to and from toilet and shower and one step to the cot next to my bed was ok, other then that they told me to lay back and relax.. so cant see why specially after CS things would be too different

[Jandals]

At the risk of getting caught in the cross-fire... I think Fiona made it pretty clear earlier on in this thread that the length of time she had to spend in bed wasn't up for discussion. What she was looking for was comment on whether she would manage without her DH over the first 24 hours or so - I think

As far as I understand there are plenty of exercises you can do while still in bed to help with DVT that won't separate your pubic bones, which I'm sure your physio will go over before your c/s. There must be loads of women that are not able to get up after 12 hours and therefore you would hope that you won't be pressured with scare tactics to get moving too early. At the end of the day it's irrelevant how many other women have SPD - what's important is that you feel you will have the care you need while in hospital. Hopefully your physio will make it clear in your notes what needs to be done. All the best. I'll be looking out for you birth notice