I had an unplanned c/s - the procedure itself was straightforward, but a couple of days later, I ruptured one of my internal stitches which pulled through my abdominal muscle and rested on my sciatic nerve. Excruciating! I couldn't walk, or even place any weight on one leg.

I went home in a wheelchair (in a high-set house), with a shower chair, an over-toilet frame, and a prescription for doloxene, voltaren AND oxycontin, which gave me nightmares and, I think, affected my baby via breastmilk.

My OB has told me that this is a very, very unusal occurence, but I am terrified of having another c/s in case it happens again. No new mother should ever have to start her baby's life drugged up to the eyeballs, in a wheelchair unable to walk, and in enormous amounts of pain.