I had the shaking and also the swelling in my feet which was worse than the shaking because it lasted for days. Overall I found having a CS quite managable, mine was an emergency CS so I didn't know what to expect at all. The thing that sticks in my mind was how long it took me to get up to DS the first couple of nights in hospital because of how sore my tummy muscles were, so not as in any great pain just very, very sore muscles that made it hard for me to respond to DS and at the hospital I was in partners were not able to spend the night.