Jodie, I also healed up well from my caesar ... no problems at all. I was surprised at how quickly I was back in action.

I elected to have a caesarean at 41 weeks, one day. Baby was definitely overdue (he was IVF so we knew how many weeks precisely). Easter was coming up and it was my choice (not that of my doctor) to intervene rather than wait because I would be two weeks overdue by then. I initially thought I would go with induction provided my cervix seemed to be favourable at the next checkup. When the doctor looked, baby was head down, ready to go but cervix completely closed. I was unwilling to go through an induction which was likely to fail, leading me into having a caesar anyway. I figured I would recover better by having the caesar at the outset so that's what I did.

I was disappointed at not being able to just go into labour especially since every indication was that things seemed likely to go that way. I was looking forward to using my TENS machine and working through the stages but an induction is something else. Contractions crashing one on top of the other and sometimes all for nought.

In the end, it was the right decision for me and I was in very good shape to deal with looking after my baby. My incision has also healed well and apart from the small scar, you would not know anything had happened.