Dannielle . I developed an abcess in my pelvic cavity 3 weeks after my little one was born via an emergency C/s. I hope I don't scare you with my post as mine was very bad and they very rarely get to such a point.

initially I noted I had a lot of pain on the left side of my scar and a visiting midwife told me at around day 10 post op that I had a small lump under my incision site, but nothing to worry about. My actual incision was beautiful.

Then I began to get a temp 0f 40C and felt like crap, I presented to my A+E and was told it was a simple uterine infection and was sent home on abs and told not to worry. However, over the next 2 days I had no improvement and actually got worse. The pain was so intense I could hardly move and my tummy was very sensitive to touch. I began to feel very spacey. my breast milk also dried up.

I went back to A+E and was diagnosed with a sepsis of unknown origin, and they began pumping the iv antibiotics into me. BUt still my incision looked fantastic and Drs couldn't work out what was going on. I was admitted and it took 2 days of abs and blood transfusions before an obs walked into assess me (by this point, I was pretty unresponsive). Dh says she looked at my tummy and straight away said to the other drs with her that the colour on the left side of my abdomen looked odd and that I had an abscess in my pelvic cavity. I was whisked off for a CT which confirmed her diagnosis.

Within 4 Hours I was in theatre having the abscess drained under a GA, they used the same site as my c/s to get in there, and when I woke, I felt like I had been born again. No pain, and I felt alive .

I had to have some more blood due to the damage that the septicemia had done, my Hb was 72, I had a drain in the site for 2 days to make sure nothing built up there again, and the ab's continued for the next couple of days. Finally after over a week I got home.

I now have an incisional hernia, right at the site of where the abscess was, which I am told they will fix when I have my 2nd little bubba in March next year.

So what caused the abscess? Well apparently my c/s was stitched so tightly and well that nothing could drain out, and I ended up having a huge build up of blood which went bad. It actually was quite extensive and extended just into the outer wall of my uterus. My daughter had also passed merconioum in her waters very early in my labour, and I was left to labour for another 12hrs after this. So possible that some of this was leaked into my abdo cavity during the C/s

please make sure you monitor you temps, and if they go up I would be heading straight to A+E for assesment and skip the GP. Take care, and let us know how you get on