Hi girls, i cant help you with stitches "down there", but had a horror of a job with my first c-section,,,and got a staph infection with the last one.
With the first one, the stitches ripped open a big hole (you could actually look in), and I got a huge lump develop in it, whenever i bent over, heaps of infection fluid run out of it. I had a massive dose of flagyl antibiotics, and it healed up really quickly.
Although, it was not actually very painful at all.