Trish - I`d recommend for you to tell them you want the babies and DH with you in recovery so you can BF as soon as possible after birth, otherwise you`ll be in the same situation I was with Matthew - he was born at 5.15pm, I got to hold him for 2 minutes before he was whisked off with DH while I was stitched up then taken to recovery until just after 8pm, by the time I got to the ward Matthew was so hungry and crying, DH was frantic as he had no idea what was going on with me, no one had the decent thing to say the spinal worked too well and they were waiting for it to wear off, they could have easily taken DH and Matthew to recovery so I could have at least fed him.

If I do happen to have a c/s this time I`m certainly telling them I want my baby and DH with me in recovery.

When I was taken back to the ward they propped me up a little, not full on sitting up off course but at least I wasn`t lying flat on my back.

I was also put onto pethidene for the first 24 hours, I will not be going onto pethidene again but asking for Panadeine Forte for the pain, I found Pethidene did nothing for the pain except for making me very tired and everything is a bit foggy for those first 24 hours. HTH`

Thank you Helen