How soon after a c-section can you go on holiday?

[allhailtheaubergine]

Did you have a section? How soon afterwards would you have felt up to going on a trip?

The trip is longhaul, but I wouldn't have to do anything but lie / sit and feed the baby once we got there. In fact would be easier than being at home with 5 ad 3 yr old to look after as well as the baby.

Currently planning to go between 4 and 6 weeks afterwards depending on arrival time of baby and all being well.

Not so much AIBU as AIBUnrealistic?

Sorry think it was me mentioning I flew from abroad to UK with DS at 6 weeks after EMS.

FWIW I don't see why the passport should take that long? I registered DS after a week and had to go to a judge first and sign a form with DP to say we both agree we are his parents (unmarried). Then register birth, in a different place (local town hall), then send all documents to Madrid as that's where Embassy was. We got the passport in time back to Tenerife but did pay for a courier service.

I'm not sure the UK system is that complecated is it?

the uK system isn't that complicated but they have some sort of enhanced recognition thing that they apply embassy by embassy. In our case it had to go from the consulate to the embassy and from there to the regional embassy in Vienna. Then slowly back again. Each time, it would get posted at the speed of the bureaucrat handling it i.e. up to a week each time.

I don't know why but in my head the Op lives in the middle east. Maybe I just made that up (and I'm sorry for the confusion I am causing).

just to add re passport - where i live (in London) there is a 4 week + wait to get an appointment to register a baby, and then it takes a week or two after that to get a passport.

If I were to book in advance, I would leave at least 6 weeks between date of possible section & travelling, definitely no less than 3.
If you go earlier and end up with an infection or something you will feel shit and not have a nice time.

OP, I flew back to the UK from the Middle East less than a month after DD was born (by CS); basically was just waiting for her passport and residence visa to be sorted (in the good old days of 2007 when the embassy here did the passports themselves instead of via Dusseldorf). Had all appropriate checks, no concerns raised about flying, and was absolutely fine.

I did generally recover very quickly from both of my sections though, I suppose that aspect is hard to predict.

Is there a particular reason why you're planning to travel that soon? Or would it be possible to shift the dates to a couple of weeks later?

I flew 2 weeks after a CS, to visit my MIL who was terminally ill. I was still quite weak but coped fine with the flight. IIRC the worst thing was that our hire car didn't come with the proper first-stage infant seat we'd requested but gave us a bigger seat instead and dd1 screamed non-stop every time she was put in it.

I found travelling in the car quite tough - the sort of swaying, forward motion of going round corners and over bumps seemed to 'pull' on the scar, if that makes any sense. I'm not sure if I would have been hugely comfortable sitting on a plane, but probably could have coped. But I don't think it would be my first choice of things to do a couple of weeks after a section. The thing is you dont know OP, which I appreciate isn't very helpful.