OMG- I just read this thread, i should have come here months ago but reading your stories nearly brought me to tears remebering my own experience.
Inanna- Like you i to spent my first night at home with my son vomitting in a sick bag while trying to breastfeed him without sitting up because the headache was soo excrutiating. Everytime I went to pick my son up I was nauseas and didn't even realise he wasn't getting anything from my boobs because they were engorged, hence why he was screaming all night long.

I was readmitted after the hell that was "the first night at home" the next day. They didn't dismiss my pain but weren't keen to diagnose it as a epi headache because the pain didn't start til 3 days later so they pumped me full of fluids for 2 days while my son was cared for at home by my DH. I was an absolute useless mother in this time and was finally at home for the first time again when my son was 6 days old after they did the blood patch.

Thank you for making this thread, i don't feel so alone anymore.