When did your swelling vanish??

[butterfly_warrior]

I would only swell up occasionally... but freaked out when my ankles blew up again a few days after Samuel was born. The midwives in the hospital assured me that it is completely normal for it to take a few weeks for any swelling to settle down. Go the support stockings! Not exactly high fashion, but they do help keep you a bit more comfortable - and take them to hospital when you go into labour, too. Just to help deal with any swelling you may get after birth.

BW

[Shanti]

I think I'll get Dh to get me some of those stockings to take into hospital, thanks girls.
He's a nurse so should be able to get me some from the hossy before I go in. Happy to wear them while during hossy stay anyway & at home after.

[butterfly_warrior]

Eek! I don't recommend the hospital ones! Horrid white things with open toes - at least that's what my hospital gave me last year when I was admitted with OHSS. I got some from the chemist - didn't look much different to regular stockings and were heaps more comfortable.

The icky white ones were "accidentally left behind" when I was discharged...

BW

[Shanti]

Eek! I don't recommend the hospital ones! Horrid white things with open toes - at least that's what my hospital gave me last year when I was admitted with OHSS. I got some from the chemist - didn't look much different to regular stockings and were heaps more comfortable.

The icky white ones were "accidentally left behind" when I was discharged...

BW

ok thanks for warning me!! I thought they were all the same! I'll check out the chemist ones then..... hehe I dont' wanna look like a burns victim

[Liz]

LOL at the hospital stockings. I didn't mind them, they were free! and I was wearing trackies all the time anyway No way was I getting around in a nighty or anything when I had to wear maternity pads LOL. Trackies all the way for me, so it didn't matter what was on underneath.

I swelled up at night for a few days after the birth, but I did sooooo much walking between the ward and the NICU that I think I shifted a lot of the swelling and even baby weight! And the nurses weren't concerned about DVT either coz of all my walking LOL.

Hope it disappears quickly for you One thing that DID disappear immediately after the birth was my carpal tunnel. It was miraculous! (that was with my first).

[The[cookie]Doctor]

My swelling went down within a week or so. I was a balloon, I was huge but mostly fluid, I couldnt believe how much weight I lost in my face once I lost the fluid, it was extraordinary

[satya]

My swollen ankles & feet didn't go down for several weeks after I gave birth - possibly around 4 weeks. Not exactly sure but it was much longer than I thought it would be. It was only bad for around a week but took the rest of the time to get back to normal gradually. Everyone I knew IRL told me it would be gone within a day of giving birth. Not so.