c/s recovery has been different for me everytime. With Ananda, I had a bruised lung from them jostling her around in there before pushing her out of the incision, and I also had nightmares and hallucinations in the hospital from the painkillers they gave me. Those were the hardest things, that time. With Aaron, I lost a HUGE (life threatening) amount of blood, and was shaking with cold and weak, and dizzy, for a week after, and that was the hardest. Isaac was a breeze, no complications for me. This time a backache where they did the epidural has been the biggest odd thing.
Common to all, and "normal": It's REALLY hard to sit up, step up (like into our van or up from the laundry room), walk at a normal pace, bend, etc. Walking slowly and upright is not so hard, laying down flat is fine. But rolling over or scooting around in the bed is basically impossible. Getting up is much faster if I have help. I accidentally (out of habit, wasn't thinking) lifted Isaac, yesterday, and regretted that fast (feels like you're going to rip something inside). I'm not even supposed to lift Jake, though I've done it a couple of times in these past couple of days.
Basically, you have no idea what all you use your abs for, until they've been cut and stitched. You can't drive because you can't reliably lift your foot onto the pedals. It hurts to strain to open a jar, and who knew THAT used abs?
I feel sore and achy all the time, but only in pain if something is irritating it - like lifting Isaac or Jake, trying to get up out of bed (and our mattress is on the FLOOR), etc.
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Common to all, and "normal": It's REALLY hard to sit up, step up (like into our van or up from the laundry room), walk at a normal pace, bend, etc. Walking slowly and upright is not so hard, laying down flat is fine. But rolling over or scooting around in the bed is basically impossible. Getting up is much faster if I have help. I accidentally (out of habit, wasn't thinking) lifted Isaac, yesterday, and regretted that fast (feels like you're going to rip something inside). I'm not even supposed to lift Jake, though I've done it a couple of times in these past couple of days.
Basically, you have no idea what all you use your abs for, until they've been cut and stitched. You can't drive because you can't reliably lift your foot onto the pedals. It hurts to strain to open a jar, and who knew THAT used abs?
I feel sore and achy all the time, but only in pain if something is irritating it - like lifting Isaac or Jake, trying to get up out of bed (and our mattress is on the FLOOR), etc.