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[Alaskan]

Oh, mine was outpatient....

I was supposed to not pick up anything over 10 pounds for the next.. Maybe six weeks?

Haha! I totally failed following that order. I could feel that being a bad patient, I made the mesh shift a bit... But he had put in a really big square of mesh for my little hernia... So it didn't matter.

 

[drumstick diva]

Ladies is it time for us to start comparing cesarean scars or something? I'm feeling left out

 

[chickadoodles]

Chickadoodles, that IS something to ask your doctor about. Nowadays some hospitals discharge women hours after giving birth. Thankfully I wasn't one of them many years ago.

Definitely ask him what aftercare and restrictions you will have post surgery.

When are you having this done?

I am having surgery on Oct. 2nd so that my DH will be home to help me. The Dr. just said that I won't be able to lift anything over 5lbs for 6 wks. He did say it was going to be out patient.
My husband and I were kind of amazed. But that is ok this hosptal has a bad reputation. They call it the local stop and drop. :/ So I would rather come home.
I will be sleeping in the recliner for awhile. I know I won't be able to get in and out of my water bed for awhile.

I luckily did not get sent home right after child birth either.

 

[perchie.girl]

Oh, mine was outpatient....

I was supposed to not pick up anything over 10 pounds for the next.. Maybe six weeks?

Haha! I totally failed following that order. I could feel that being a bad patient, I made the mesh shift a bit... But he had put in a really big square of mesh for my little hernia... So it didn't matter.

they discovered my sons when he was an infant... about four months. One side but they did both sides at Chidlrens hospital... Came home with tape holding him together... Of course the mesh was inside. As well as internal stitching... Took four hours about.

Ladies is it time for us to start comparing cesarean scars or something? I'm feeling left out

For what its worth I had a bikini Cut. about six inches They pushed him out by pressing on my belly. I was awake for the whole thing. No pain.

I too came home with tape keeping my guts from falling out. they separated my bladder from the uterous with something called a bladder knife. My surgeon was TOP in his field... How I did that I havent a clue. but there were at least ten observers IN the delivery room Other doctors learning. I was his last Csection before retirement.

Because I was on Medi-Cal they sent me home after 24 hours. Delivered baby on Friday AM sent me home on Saturday AM... 25 years ago... Oz says they changed that rule since because it was so Barbaric.

deb

 

[chickadoodles]

Ladies is it time for us to start comparing cesarean scars or something? I'm feeling left out

No I don't want to... lol

Don't feel left out Diva feel blessed!

 

[chickadoodles]

Quote: No one better ever use glue to put me back together again! That is how I got this to begin with! UGH! Yes they now keep moms for at least 2 days now and some for 3.
I had 2 c-sections and one at a teaching hospital they were so excited at Pioneer Hospital in Artesia, Calif. becuse I was giving birth to twins and they asked if the students could watch and I said ok. They were tickled pink. I was scared to death!

 

[Cynthia12]

Ladies is it time for us to start comparing cesarean scars or something? I'm feeling left out

ummm. that's ok! Not sharing. Only mine was from a hysterectomy gone bad. Dr. thought, go the easy route, he left some bleeders, almost died, then had to go in like a cesarean. My DH said that was scary. I almost bled to death before he got there to fix it. Why didn't they just get another dr. to do the fix it job? Man. It felt yucky getting all of that blood that belonged to someone else!

 

[perchie.girl]

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whew what an horrific experience...

 

[Wisher1000]

Ladies is it time for us to start comparing cesarean scars or something? I'm feeling left out

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For what its worth I had a bikini Cut. about six inches They pushed him out by pressing on my belly. I was awake for the whole thing. No pain.

deb

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I had 2 c-sections and one at a teaching hospital they were so excited at Pioneer Hospital in Artesia, Calif. becuse I was giving birth to twins and they asked if the students could watch and I said ok. They were tickled pink. I was scared to death!

Unless anyone had four or more cesareans, I think I'm the winner. I had three C-sections. The first was an emergency, the others were scheduled.

For the first one, my Doc (LOVE my Doc!) found several fibroid tumors and went ahead and removed them while he was there. I wanted to watch but he wouldn't let me. He said the screen on my chest was a requirement, but laughingly said next time he would set up a mirror so I could watch from the side.

For the next one, I reminded him about the mirror he promised me and he eventually agreed to set one up, but there was a nurse blocking my view. I have a pic my sister took of me with a handful of her scrubs trying to pull her out of the way, so I could see. I fussed so much about not being able to see that Doc lifted my uterus up high enough where I could see it over the screen. He said, "There, now you are the only woman in town that can say she has seen her own uterus!" LOL! I still didn't get to see them pull the baby out. That's what I wanted to see.

On the third one, I pretty much just dozed, I think he gave me more meds than the other times -- likely on purpose. When I got the pics developed, there was this man in most of them. He had a black goatee, bushy black eyebrows, a welding cap with skulls and flames on it, and was mugging for the camera in every one. He was grinning ear to ear, he was dancing at my head, he was giving a thumbs up, and in one he was leaning his head against mine. I was so confused when I opened the envelope and couldn't for the life of me figure out who that man was that was in all my pics. I finally asked my sister (she was in with me for all three and took the pictures) and she said, "Oh, that was Chad, your anesthesiologist."

I glad he was having fun.......

Hmmmmm ....... TMI?

 

[Bunnylady]

Figures it would be the "gas passer" - they seem to have their own type of humor.

I have a friend who has had 4 C-sections; she has had other abdominal surgeries as well. When she told me they were going to open her up yet again, I asked, "do you sometimes wish they'd just install a zipper?"