What happens after a C Section?

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I have an elective c section in 10 weeks (not booked yet but agreed), assuming everything goes okay, what happens after? Do you go straight onto a ward or a seperate room?
Thank you x

In recovery for a while then on to the ward.

You get taken back to the recovery ward for 2-4hours then moved to a ward if all is ok and a bed is available.x

After recovery you go back to a normal ward, here they put you in the bed closest the door so the midwives can keep an eye on you.

You are in recovery for a bit and then back on the ward. I had an elective section for my second and had a very positive experience with it. Best of luck!

You're in there for about an hour. It actually only takes a short amount of time to deliver the baby but then they have to stitch you back together. After that you go to the recovery room for roughly an hour where they keep and eye on you and let you have skin to skin with the baby. After that you get wheeled up into the ward and I think the expectation is that you stay over night. They'll want to see that the baby has fed and had a wee. They'll also want to see that you have walked and gone to the toilet before you leave ( you'll have a catheter for a while). For my first, I stayed one night but I had DH with me. For my second ( born in lockdown), I stayed in two nights as found recovery harder. Good luck and congratulations!

I went to recovery for about an hour I think, I was then taken up to the wards but was in a room on my own with DH and baby as they were waiting for my Covid test to come back (I had an elective planned but went in to labour early so ended up with a very calm emergency section). Once they had my negative test back, baby and I were taken to the ward and DH was sent home. The ward I was on was all ladies who had had C-Sections, it looked as though they separated those that had a section from those that didn't. I'm assuming that was for ease of the medical teams. I'm not sure if that was just a Covid thing or not though.

All the best! Even though mine ended up being an 'emergency' section, it was such a lovely positive experience, I hope you enjoy the same.