It is the reason we get you out of bed the day after the C/S. One of the best methods of preventing chest infections is to get you moving.

Think about this
You will have seen the muck that you cough up. Now imagine that sitting in a nice warm damp place for a few days. Bugs love warm damp places.
So what happens is that all that gunk sits in the bottom of your lungs for a few days and well you can imagine what it would look like then. So we get yoou up and moving not because we are nasty grumpy nurses but so we can get you out of the hospital sooner and upright.