How soon could you do the following after elective c-section?

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I've pretty much decided on an elective CS, and have read lots on how quickly people have recovered after. I'd be really grateful though to hear how long it took people before they could do these specific things:

Go on an hour's walk
Pick up baby in car seat
Drive
Resume exercise such as running
Have sex
Sit up in bed/on sofa without pain
Resume normal household tasks such as washing and hoovering
Move about normally with 0 pain

Thanks so much ladies.

No, I didn’t take that from your posted study at all. You said you were happy to take a 55% chance. I asked if you’d be happy to take a risk on something that had a 45% chance of dying. Don’t twist my words. Your pathetic attempt to twist them has proven my point; you wouldn’t undertake something that had only had a 55% chance of survival.
Yet in the case of childbirth; you claim to believe they’re good odds? Pull the other one.

I actually think posters like DyslexicWonder should receive a temporary ban for that sort of co-opting/rail roading on a thread.

Op I've had both types of birth. Here ive ranked the recoveries in terms of ease.

1. EMCS after 24 hour labour (amazing recovery)
2. Vbac (quite brutal and took long time to get over)
3. ELCS slightly more brutal recovery than vbac but offset by the fact that I didn't have to intense pain for hours and the pain of recovery from my CS was in a different, much, much MUCH lower league than the living he'll of contractions.

Thank you so so much to everyone who replied!! I had my c section and it was the best decision I could've made. Thought I'd come back and answer my own questions for anyone looking at this in future!

Go on an hour's walk: I could have done it within 10 days but newborns are exhausting 😂 physically I felt well enough pretty quickly. Think I went on an hour's walk after 2 weeks.

Pick up baby in car seat: I didn't do this for weeks and weeks. My incision kept opening up and bleeding a little. Sounds so much worse than it was though. Was due to constantly sitting up in bed in the sweltering summer heat - cluster feeding!

Drive: Easily could have right away. Waited 6 weeks because there was no need to do it before.

Resume exercise such as running: Still haven't exercised 🤦‍♀️ oh my goodness..

Have sex: Tried at 6 weeks, major ouch. Tried at 10 weeks, still ouch. Tried at 4.5 months, bliss. Coincided with me stopping breastfeeding. Is there a link? Maybe. I read after my c section that women who have c sections are more likely to experience pain during sex 6 months after birth. Who knew? Seems counterintuitive, but there you go.

Sit up in bed/on sofa without pain: Pretty much right away.

Resume normal household tasks such as washing and hoovering: Still haven't hoovered. Shout out to my husband. I could've done housework fairly soon but honestly, I know now how right people are when they say the bending and straining can delay healing.

Move about normally with 0 pain: I was never really in much pain. The most pain in the whole process was having the catheter removed 😂 I took my nice strong meds for a good week though, didn't want to be a martyr. Was totally off all meds, Inc paracetamol and ibuprofen by 10 days ish, maybe 2 weeks.

I'd highly recommend the experience. My healing was delaying because as I mentioned, my incision kept opening and bleeding a small amount. Was because of the sweat gathering in the heat. Had a couple doses of antibiotics and made a real effort to keep it dry. Worked itself out. Was never particularly troublesome or sore!

C section all the way!

So glad OP!

My second CS baby is now 6 months (I see I replied to your thread just before she was born).

For anyone else wondering…..this time around baby was born late April, and I was happily at a coronation street party on the first weekend in May. And following a preschooler around the park after about 2 weeks.

In my experience the people saying ‘but you spend 6 weeks not being able to lift the baby or go up stairs’ (thank you MIL…) are the ones who have never had a CS!