re getting up - its very common to faint or feel light headed when you first get up - so do make sure you have your DH and a care assistant or two really helping you to a chair first. if you can do that - then aim for bathroom.
they tried to push me to bathroom and i said i wasnt ready - so instead got a chair right by bed for me - good job, seconds later i was passed out.
please dont push yourself on moving, wiggle toes in bed -raise up legs rotoate ankles....sqeeze all muscles you can - wave arms around.
a MW came round to me and got me to turn on my side - i tweaked something and got horrific side pains since...other ladies on ward all had really nasty deliveries - emergency sections - they were more mobile and in less pain than me ebcayse of this stupid woman,
there is encouraging movement and stupid movement.
move gently in your bed - but dont attempt a fulll side turn!
the babies that cried all night on the ward were the ones that werent fed. if baby cries - feed feed feed.
if you can wedge pillows round you - bars up on bed, sleep with baby if you feel safe to do so...much much much easier - not offically recomened but loads of MW saw us and said nothing. i got myself into a postion where literally neither of us could move an inch.
check what medication they will give you if breast feeding a few people have been told can only have certian things ,....
oramorph is available for break through pain, its not the same as the other drugs they give you - so you can have it in between the other drugs.
be aware - often one mw will come round and tell you one thing then another will come round and say excalty the opposite!!!