Recovery after theatre

I cant remember exactly but Megan was born at 3:40 am    and i didnt get back to my room till after 5   so id guess a hour, ifs a huge blur though!

I have no idea... Hmmm I got a text from DH when he got home at about 4am and Jake was delivered at 12.30am and it took them just shy of 2 hours to put me back together, so recovery about 2.30am.. so about an hour I reckon.

That said, DH left the theatre with Jake about 20 minutes before I was wheeled to recovery (might have been less or more but it felt like about 20 minutes LOL).

If it were me (and i thought it would be because my DH is NOT good around blood and needle ect) then DH would actually be waiting in recovery for me. As it turned out there was no way DH was going to miss the arrival of his baby, he sucked it up big time.

On the other hand, having DH in surgery was great, he sat up by my head (unless they want to they don't see anything) when baby was pulled out they held them up for us to see, then the paedi team does their bit, 5-10mins later they give baby to DH, and for the next half hour or so while they put you back together DH just sits with baby next to your head. To me, that was the best part, quiet, calm, and tho there's a bunch of staff in the room it feels just like you DH and baby.+Just+my+opinion,+=)

It's definitely much nicer with an elective! Good staff make a huge difference too. Our last anaethetist technician was lovely, she took camera off DH once he had been given dd and took a few photos for us. One is absolutely my favorite- DH and I with our silly caps on either side of dd gazing at her while she's facing the camera howling her head off! I love it, =)

Just thought i'd add my 2 cents in now that we're all finished with. I spent 3 hours in recovery on tuesday because I had heavy bleeding/clotting that wouldnt stop. Lost 600ml of blood while I was in recovery itself! The nurses in there are super nice and take really good care of you :D

yeah, I had the same problem, my mw tried to latch jae on to get my uterus to contract back down quicker as I was still losing quite a bit of blood... they hummed and hah'ed about doing a transfusion at the time, but decided to watch my iron levels instead, any further decline and they would have done a transfusion... they couldnt understand why I was able to walk around without keeling over!!

Oh the shakes, i'm not looking forward to that again!

I got the shivers after Bella, wasnt too bad, I just had chattery teeth and stuff, I dont think I had that after Cadens birth...cant really remember though lol

I lost 1000ml of blood with each of mine in theater, after Caden I had to have a blood transfusion as my iron levels plumeted to the point where I was dizzy and almost passing out, so scary.

My shakes always started after everything was done, i.e. about 15mins after surgery while in recovery, they lasted for about an hour. Maybe it depends on what stage of the whole process they give you whatever it is that gives you shakes?

I was in recovery for 3.5 hours, cos they didnt have a room to move me to. I lost a litre of blood in surgery, and had the shakes real bad during surgery, freaked me out cos I was sure I was going to shake and make them cut something they shouldnt!
Mine was an emergency c sect at midnight, I had DH with me, and my mum and sister (who had been with me labouring) waiting for me to come out. They wernt allowed in recovery and mum was going spare so they waited in the corridor and they wheeled me really slow into recovery (across the corridor!) so mum could see I was ok, was real sweet!