Nearly 7 weeks post EMCS

[Firsttimemummajoranxiety]

i have major health anxiety and am now nearly 7 weeks postpartum from having an emergency section (FTM). I’ve done pretty well with my recovery and scar has been healing really well. But I feel like the past 2 days, since I now don’t have the option to ring triage anymore I’m super anxious about my scar and one of the scabs on there which I feel like today has gone a tiny bit red above it. Now my partner and mum have both looked and they both think it looks okay but I don’t know if I’m just overthinking it all. They don’t think it’s infected as it’s not much redness and no other symptoms with it. When do you think I need to get it looked at? I feel okay in myself! Do still get a bit of pain above and on my scar which I always have since birth. Baby is such a contact napper which i think doesnt help with the pain! Just wanting some reassurance i think of what I need to do. I’m booked in for a check at the gp next Friday. I think this is stemming from not having an option to be checked straight away like I’ve had throughout pregnancy and up until Tuesday.
sorry for such a long post!

It doesn't sound bad, if it was infected you'd likely have other symptoms, it would look very angry red, possibly pussy, itchy, you may have other symptoms like a temp. Just keep an eye on it but doesn't sound like anything to worry about today. You will still be very tender for a long time and one end of my scar was always more red than the other end. And 7 and 3 years later after both my c sections it still feels weird and a bit tender if I get a knee or an elbow in my scar!! Remember they have gone through multiple layers of your body, c sections take about a year to fully heal internally. Please try not to worry. X

Aww thank you I have just had a look before this feed and it hasn’t changed any worse so I’ll just keep an eye out for other symptoms or it getting worse. It’s only above one of the scabs a few cm/ inch or so in from the end of the scar and in no other place. Just found it worrying as it was above a scab that I was worried about anyway.