hi, congratulations to you and your wife!
I was put on endone 10mg 2, 3x a day, paracetamol 2 every 4 hrs and voltaren every 6 hrs, from birth, then sent home (after 5 days) with enough to last a week. was told to see gp for repeat rxs.
mind you, i didnt like the way the endone made me, I was soooo out of it, and still in pain.
when I saw my gp, he told me that ibuprofen was a better anti inflammatory to take in regards to breastfeeding, (gave me a rx for brufen, which is 400mg tabs as opposed to nurofen which is 200mg) as i said before i didnt like the endone so I weaned myself off and started taking paracetamol and codeine tabs (with 10mg codeine, a little stronger than normal panadeine but not so strong as the forte) and that was manageable.
I did have a lot of pain, and the breastfeeding didnt help (with cx and so forth) i also got an infection which probably contributed to the amount of pain I was in.
see your gp, or alternatively see if the hospital has a womens clinic or post natal service where she could go to discuss her pain management options. its not fair for her to have to suffer when you both should be enjoying this time time in your life to its full extent!
once again congratulations, and i hope your wife will be feeling a lot better very soon.
xx