Hi Dot1
I am a new to the forum and new to mothering. I had a really good pregnancy, no morning sickness, no problems what so ever, well only constipation., so assumed a natural birth would be on the cards, the thought of a section scared me to death and as far as I was concerned wasn?t really an option unless totally necessary.
Well I had an emergency section due to the baby being breach and no one found out until I had had three lots of progesterone gel to start me off, I was 2 weeks late.
DS is 5 weeks this Friday and weighed in at 8.13oz (by the way I am 5ft tall and fairly petit) and I too am troubled by numbness, hypersensitivity and general dull aches. I have to get some one else to push the pushchair up hills (not to bad on the flat) and my mother who has had a back operation and a hip operation can out walk me, I have to ask her to slow down when we are out and about.
I find I get tired quickly, my back aches easily and doing just the general bits around the house takes ages.
Then there?s the stitches, that have yet to dissolve (anyone now how long they take to dissolve), the in growing hairs from were they shaved me and the swelling that?s just to the side of the scar.
Like you I too get down quite easily, especially when I see other mums I know who have had a normal birth only three or so weeks ago and look like the just walked out of the beauty parlour, while I still cant do a size 14 pair of trousers up around my tummy.
When I do get down I just look at DS and think how lucky I am to have him. But the section ordeal has defiantly put me off having any more children. Glad to here everything was ok at the doctors, it reassured me that these things are normal, so thanks for that.