Hello everyone, gosh what a lot to catch up on, sorry I haven't had time to fully read up yet, will do as soon as possible, but big congrats to those with new babies and I hope everything is going well for those still waiting.
I've posted a couple of pictures on my profile of me and Luca in hospital the day after our cs. I think the morphine was working cos I'm actually smiling ! Only kidding, it's probably cos I'm still so high after having such a beautiful baby!
Actually, just wanted to say my cs was really straightforward. It was painful that night, and my first few steps the next day were shaky to say the least, but not as bad as I expected at all.
I'd say the worst part was definitely the spinal block going in, but I think that was more to do with nerves than anything else as it didn't really hurt either. I walked in to theatre, which was surreal, and had all my drips and bits attached, then they did the spinal, the local anaesthetic in my back was worse than anything I think, very stingy, but I was shaking like a leaf, so the whole thing wasn't very nice.
I've never had anything like that though so the whole sensation was so strange, first the feeling of heat running down my back, past my bottom and down my legs. Then the numbness and pins and needles, then the strangest sensation. I could swear I could feel my legs but they were deader than dead. At one point I was convinced my legs were straight out in front of me, and I looked over the top of the screen and could see both my feet in the air as they put the catheter in!!! Bizarro and so ladylike! !! It's nice to know you lose all dignity having a cs as well. As the spinal took hold and they lay me back on the table, they used the front half of my gown as the screen!! Nice! The view the otherside must have been hilarious!
Anyway, it's not the most natural thing in the world, all my requests about seeing him delivered, and having him placed on me immediately after birth went out the window as he needed his lungs cleaning out. So the first I saw of my baby was a dressed and cleaned baby handed to me from the otherside of the screen! All those years I'd poo pooed the movies when the babies appear miraculously cleaned and dressed and it's true all along Seriously though, it's not the most natural thing in the world, not exactly the birth I had envisaged, but the end result is so worth it, who cares!!???
As an aside, anyone having a cs in St Georges in Tooting, make sure you ask for a female surgeon (called something Mukerjee I think) she did an amazing job on my scar, it's tiny, like a skin crease. There aren't even any external stitches to remove, they're all internal! What a woman (my mum said a man would have made much more of a mess! )
Well, sorry for rambling on about myself, just wanted to let anyone know with up coming cs that my experience wasn't bad at all. Very little pain after the first day, walking easily by day two, I don't even really need my pain meds but I'm taking them just cos the mw advised me to. I even walked for 30 mins today, admittedly very slowly!!
I hope everyone is well, I'm off to gaze at my beautiful son!!
xx