My ELC was brilliant.
Now, over all it was brilliant,
Compared to labour - never ending - pain, worry on and on....pain afterwards, sore, tore - and so on.
ELC was civillised, planned and calm. It was scary walking into a theatre - awake. But that fear was gone in minuets as staff attended to me. Compared to hours of fear of labour.
ELC was quick, you had a good sleep night before, feel awake and normal when baby comes! Your so busy looking at amazing baby - the sewing up goes very quickly.
I enjoyed recovery, snuggling with my darling.
I had dreaded the days in hospital, tried and failed to get a private room, thought it would be horrific and actually, I had a really nice time. DH brought m and s microwave meals in for in...I was all cosy with baby had nothing else to do but admire her...enjoyed the people watching on the ward, and felt sad to leave the little bubble we had.
My gripes were pain in wound to begin with which went pretty quickly and was intermittent.
I took it very easy for two weeks, no lifting washing and so on, DH had plenty of time off to help me too, holiday + maternity leave.
I was worried about infection but that was fine too, I felt a mess about a week in, when I could walk but got tired quickly, struggled to bend down, needed help stepping into bath, I wondered if it would ever end.
It did.
Looking back over all, it was brilliant, so much better than the not knowing of natural labour. I also felt comforted that should something go wrong, a medical team were right there on the spot to help, no alarm bells ringing and so on, and also if they needed baby out -again it all there not half way down birth canal trying to get at her - and so on.