Hi Jim, Congratulations to you and your wife and welcome to the wold little Alex
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Thats exactly what i was going to post.
Paracetamol can be extremely harmful if you exceed the recommended daily dose (which is 4 grams) each panadol/panadeine/panadiene forte tablet has 500mg in it, so you would usually consume 1 gram each time you take a dose (2 tablets)
Di-gesic contains 325mg in each tablet, so this needs to be considered when using other medications.
I would second the Voltaren, it is an anti-inflammatory medication and works in a completely different way to paracetamol and is safe to be overlapped.
Until you see a GP or other DR, you could use nurofen in conjunction with the digesic as these can be combined, but will not give as much pain relief as the voltaren.
I used Endone in the first few days at night and panadol and voltaren during the day. I was BF also
The other thing is, did anyone teach your wife how to get out of bed to decrease the pain?
She needs to roll onto her side, push up with her hands and use her legs as a pendulum to assist getting out of bed (this is also how we teach people with back injuries to get out of bed) It will help as i found getting out of bed awkward...
Generally doing much more than just moving around the house for toileting and other small tasks for herself and bubs is enough to trigger pain, make sure that she rests well in the coming days as her strengh will begin to return in time, things can be left, it is far ore important that she looks after herself as she will tire easily, especially as her milk comes in properly and night feeds start taking a toll
HTH and congratulations again
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