Mrs S, You do have a hard decision to make you poor thing!
I've had an elective caesarean (due to pre-eclampsia and bubs head not being engaged) and I have to say that if you decide on a caesarean make sure you have a birth plan in place. If you can discuss and negotiate special requests it will help to make you c-section a more personal bonding experience. EG: you can ask for the screen to be removed so you can see bub being delivered. You can ask for instant skin to skin contact in theatre and also ask to have bub with you in recovery. It's a shame that this isn't standard procedure, so make sure you do ask for these things. Also you can do things like ask to be able to see the placenta if that interests you. And if you feel nauseous during surgery make sure you tell the anaesthetist as they should be able to fix this quickly with an anti nausea drugs.
As for caesarean recovery. Mine was surprisingly good. Nowhere near as bad as I thought it would be! If I can give you any tips it would be to make sure your OB isnt one of the ones who actually removes your uterus from your abdomen to stitch it up (some OBs do this and it is unnecesary and causes more post op pain and bruising for the mother). make sure you are up and about as soon as your IV and catheter are removed. The sooner you are up and about the sooner you will feel better. Also I didn't have any post OP morphine but I did have capadex capsules and voltaren suppositories (I know the suppositories don't sound great but honestly I had no pain post OP, just a little tenderness).
Hope this helps. And best of luck to you
PS: Danielle, best of luck for your C-section this Thursday!
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