ELCS hospital bag?

[verytiredmummy1]

What would you pack differently for an ELCS than a natural birth?
Had a bag packed for VBAC but just decided to go for a section!
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[goodenoughmum88]

Only had c sections. But my advice whenever anyone asks me is take MASSIVE pants! Big mumma over the tummy ones that are super comfy to go over the scar. Also sanitary pads to stick on the inside of said pants to absorb any seepage.
Enjoy, they're fine and enjoy your baby. X

[welshweasel]

Always/tena pants. Nice and high over wound, very absorbent when can't easily get up after spinal. Best thing I took!

[WashboardAnkles]

Lactulose - not all hospitals give it to you but the pain meds you get after c-section can make you very constipated

Agree GIANT pants.

Make sure you've tidied your lady garden if it has run wild otherwise the nurse will do it for you before theatre (with a blunt bic...)

Also make sure you have a small bag of complete essentials (nappies/wipes/pads/phone/clean sleep suit for the baby) which can stay on the bed with you or right by you when your partner - birthing or otherwise - goes. Otherwise you'll have to ring the bell for the nurse like an eejit because your baby needs changing and and you forgot you can't move because you've had an epidural/spinal

[CityMole]

Peppermint capsules/ colpermin for trapped wind.
Movicol to help with the first poo. A sports cup with straw for easy drinking while waiting for your legs to come back to life.

[Junosmum]

Night dress, NOT pyjamas, due to the catheter.

[verytiredmummy1]

Thank you so much. My last section was an emergency and I hadn't prepared at all!