But they will dress your wound and check it at LEAST once a day, usually the new nurse will come in after handover and check it herself in the afternoon as well. the doctor should pop in ince or twice while you are there aswell.
The stapels should come out just befor eyou leave hossie so they will certainly know then if you have n infection.
Once you get home though, especially if you staples are still in, you need to take care of the wound well to help prevent spliting and infection. So keep it clean and dry, avoid using soaps and body washes on it at all for a couple of weeks, warm water will surfice.
Ask the nurse for some dressing pads go, they are large rectangle wadding pads that arent sticky that you can put over the wound to prevent things rubbing (like your pants band or undies) and also help protect the wound.
Get yourself some calendula ointment or some lavender oil and uset his at least 3 times daily on the wound - it will help heal the scare nicely and also kills everything so will help prevent any nasties being able to get in and create the infection in the first place.
Also if you can try and get some time out where you can lay with the wound uncovered so expose it to the air an allow it to heal naturally.
Don't go into public pools or spas etc until well after it has healed properly and keep up your intake of Vit C and Iron to fortify your immune system.
Sorry, like the others have said I too had my wound checked at least once a day by nurses and the doctor checked it every day for the first few days also then whenever he visited me (not everyday) once staples were out. So I too think if I needed them I would have recieved them.
I'm pretty sure I had a dose while I was in surgery but not at all afterwards. My DD was born right on 38 weeks but when I discussed it with the ob it was clear I could've negotiated a week or so longer. So there could be room for negotiation, depending on how busy the hospital is.
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