I was the same as you and did very little research on caesareans before the birth of my son, I was even determined to have a natural birth with no drugs but things were far from what I had planned. I left the hospital on day 3 (Zander was born Sunday early AM, we left on Wednesday lunchtime) and was up and about walking ok, my only problem was stairs & getting in & out of bed. Ones my staples were removed on Friday I felt almost back to my old self, but like Linda said, take your time getting back into cleaning / washing etc etc because you are healing from major surgery. I needed help with carrying the laundry out for a few weeks & basic cleaning like vaccuuming and picking things up off the floor. BUT I was able to pick my son up, feed him, change him, make his bottles and also put him on the floor and get him back up off the floor.

I've never delivered a baby vaginally so can't compare the amount of blood loss, but from what I have heard it is the same or slighlty more. Yes they do suction out alot of the blood, but you also have the blood loss of where the op was done. Some people have a drain put in fpr a few days (?) which I guess would help with that, but persoanlly I didn't have one.

One suggestion that i read about which was a godsend was to buy some of those huge nanna knickers. Your scar is low down & it's most likely that your normal knickers will irritate it - mine sat above the scar (which is just on the hairline) but I found that even though they were above they irritated the nmuscles that had to be stretched to get Zader out.

HTH, but even moreso I hope that bub has engaged for you