I agree those pads are great. Well I was am still doing what you guys suggested. I have had a little bit of a reflare so am going to take the repeat of the antibiotics.
Am a bit scared of dtd. I am not planing on it before 6weeks, but even if the ob says its ok at the chkup I am still nervous. I have visions of me splitting open.LOL
I remember worrying about the pressure on my wound, but not splitting open as such. I do recall it being a little uncomfortable from that POV, but nothing major IYKWIM?
Can I ask, how long were you in hospital for Helen? My c/s is just around the corner and I'll be at Calvary. I've spoken to the nurses about wanting to be at home asap because I don't want to be away from DH and Jacob and they said I could be out by day 4/5 with a visit at home from the domicillary nurse or some such thing.....
Helen - we didn't DTD for (I think) about 3 months after Gab was born. I was told at my 6 week checkup that it was ok but I wasn't 100% sure about it. Apart from that, I was way too tired to even contemplate it! When I went to bed, I wanted to sleep!! LOL
Neil was pretty good about it. I know he was probably missing it but he never made me feel bad (as I know some DH's can).
You'll get to a point where you'll feel ok with giving it a go - but there's no point forcing yourself before your comfortable. I remember afterwards I was stoked because it didn't hurt at all! It was nice not to have the big preggy belly in the way too!! LOL
We were keen and only waited 2 weeks! I was terrifed and we took it really slow and it was fine and not sore at all. It was weird dtd without the huge belly though!!
Hi Melinda, I was in hospital for the whole 6night stay. For 2 reasons, 1 Eithan was admitted to the special care nursery and 2 I wasnt ready to go home. My recovery has been a lot better than I expected, apart from the infection everything has been going really smoothly.
I was told also by the midwifes before I had him that I wasnt necessarily going to need to be in there for the whole 6night stay. Something you should talk to your ob about.
I know you are keeping the date a secret, so I am wishing you all the best and cant wait to see a birth announcement. Will you be having a photo in the mercury. I was going to have one of Eithan and Bella but he had to go into the humidicrib and noone notified me that the mercury was there so I didnt get to have one. Oh well.
We DTD earlier than the 6 weeks - but took it slow and i discovered that i had been nervous for no reason. Yeah i was still tender scar-wise but i called the shots with what i was comfortable with. I think DH was more worried than i was - lol!
Just do what feels best for you - you know what your body can cope with. And i must admit it felt nice to feel like normal again iykwim.
Yeah my OB said that it would depend on how I felt, whether I went home earlier or not. At this stage, I certainly intend to though.....I don't like being away from DH & Jacob and emotionally I know I will cope a lot better being at home IYKWIM? I always feel better in my own environment.....
Not sure about the photo Helen LOL...maybe, so long as I'm not in it! We didn't have it done with Jacob ( I can't remember why specifically but me feeling horrendous probably had something to do with it!?)
Mel Zander was born early Sunday morning & we were at home by Wednesday lunchtime. After that we had the domicillary midwife come to the house every day for a week.
I just had to get out of there so we left as soon as possible. As far as I'm aware day 3 is the soonest you can leave a public hospital after a c/s and that's what I did. I must admit though that I got home & cried saying I shoudn't be home but I didn't want to be at the hospital & I didn't belong anywhere!! I think that's when baby blues hit me!! But after a nice rest in my own bed I felt much better.
Oh my, I was crying so hard by the 5th day I was hanging to get out of there.. Mark made me stay until his leave kicked in. They gave me a whole heap of DNP papers, it wasn't that I was depressed the damn hospital and no sleep was doing my head in.
LOL.. I was the opposite. I wanted to stay longer! My milk had only just come in on the day I left (Good Friday) but because they only had skeleton staff on, I was encouraged to go home. I think I was just a little frightened to go back out into the big wide world (plus I liked the hospital food - oh, and I had no kitchen so going home wasn't exactly enticing!!).
As it was I felt like we were stealing Gabby when we walked out with her, LOL.
LOL I checked myself out on day 3. I just couldn't sleep there & was going really well as far as bf was going... so I asked the midwives if I had to stay & they said no, I had a midwife visit twice on the days afterwards and all was good. I didn't have my milk ever "come in" I never felt any different as far as bf was concerned and I didn't have the baby blues that I noticed, I was pretty down but I thought it was due to have massive abdominal surgery & 20 hours of labour leading up to it that would cause me to be tired .
I wanted to stay. I asked if it was OK & they said it was great that I wanted to, mind you they were a lot less busy by then. I stayed 6 days all up, but mostly for advice on b/f.
Has anyone had more than 2 c-sections ?
I'm going to be having my 3rd next year and just wondering if i will be allowed to have another baby after this one.
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- oh, and I had no kitchen so going home wasn't exactly enticing!!).
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