I was in hospital 3 nights (DS1 was at home with DH) then home alone with DS2, with DS1 still in full time care for a while. I was driving after 1 week (after being checked over and given the all clear by a GP) but man, getting the pram in and out of the car was tricky ... if I didn't have issues with my sacral bit I would have used a sling, and would have been fine, but I needed to use a pram ... I over did it a little in the 2nd/3rd week (delayed nesting!!) and ended up with my incision getting infected - but I noticed something was amiss right away, got to the Dr before it had a chance to get bad, and anti-bs cleared it up pronto.
And I took probiotics, and managed to steer myself and DS2 clear of thrush, or any other nasties from the infection and the anti-bs.
As soon as that cleared up, I was gold in terms of pain, etc ... I wasn't on meds for very long, and soon enough my back was back in order (took a few more trips to the chiro, but we got there!) I was able to be back at the gym, and all systems were go.
And I was back at work full time when DS2 was 8 weeks old, but I caught a monster bug DS1 picked up at daycare, and was quite sick. The 4 of us were passing it around between ourselves for a while, but that's unrelated, IMO.
I've had 2 emerg c/s and 1 kinda elect (about a day's notice). They're definately harder to recover from if you've already been in labour, so going in for a c.s without being exhausted will make a big difference. They tend to get you up and about the next day (make sure they give you some pain relief about half an hour beforehand). I found this the hardest part with my first two.
With my third, I got off the heavy pain killers in the first few days, but was on panadol and voltaren for ages afterwards. I was in low grade pain at home for the first 4weeks or so and this was mainly in the afternoons/evenings. Like everybody else has mentioned, you have to roll out of bed and take things slowly and I usually had some nanna naps in the early days at home. Stairs and low couches hurt. Washing I would have to carry small loads and I got DH to bath the baby in the first couple of weeks.
Check with your insurance company re: driving before 6 weeks.
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