Going Home etc.

Right so we're getting an elective for sure (although the backup MW thinks she'll let me try birthing naturally - har har lady!)

What I want to know is - I DO NOT want to go to an aftercare facility after I have to leave the hospital. I want to come home and recover in my own bed with my family etc. I wont be BF so I dont need to worry about getting the baby latched etc and my MW lives a few roads over from me. My question to you lovely gals is - has anyone done this? Have you hit any walls and been 'forced' to stay in hospital etc? I personally dont see why I shouldnt be allowed to come straight home (unless there were complications etc). Any advice is appreciated. I need to have this sorted out before my next MW appt as she needs to get it all sorted out.

My normal MW is fab and is going into bat for me if I dont get any luck with people listening to what I want.

I had James Tuesday morning and went home Friday morning...well no actually it was Friday lunchtime as we waited around to see the physio and thinking we needed to get signed off by paeds (not used to a healthy newborn). My OB would normally have had me stay till Sat but would have let me go on Thursday as she said "if you think you;ll be happier and more comfortable at home". DH couldnt come and get me on Thursday though (we live 3 hours from the hospital

Where did you go? I've been to burwood after a c/s and the care was excellent, and Rangiora after a vontouse delivery and again the care was awesome.

I found I liked the time in second time around, gave me time to bond with baby before going back home and having to juggle everything again. But if you want to go home i don't see any issues with it, would probably just mean your mw would have to come to your place to give you the anti clotting jab each day.

ah the anti clot jab... i had forgot about that... that was the clexane wasnt it?

it is major abdominal surgery so i dont really think it would be feasible to go home straight away, not unless as someone said you signed a release. there is the pain relief meds that can only be given in hospital for a start. i dont think you could go home straight after any other abdominal surgery either.

If this is your second cs it is also much more envasive surgery as they have to go through all the scarring from the first, so unfortunately recovery can take longer and the pain can be greater (but obviously not in all cases).

I would think you could go home on day two after they remove the pain pump and catheter if you are insistent. However they wont give you any hard core drugs .. tramadol would probably be it and its not subsidised and at $1 a pill its quite expensive (but IMO worth it)

I however would rather stay in hospital than have to go home to a toddler, I was in for nearly a week and I still wasnt quite ready for the onslaught that was Miss Isabelle.

cuppatea wrote: Yeah the clexane, the lovely one they jab into your tummy each day for a few days that bruises and hurts!

I am pretty sure I never had even one of these jabs after my C section. I definitely would remember being injected in the tummy!

How strange...

peachy wrote: I never had that injection either but then again I had very low platelet levels so they were more concerned that I wouldn't clot as opposed to the opposite..... maybe that is why some of us don't get that injection? I opted to take no drugs after my c section, I didn't need them TBH, I have a pretty high pain tolerance level and I wasn't sore at all. I was just majorly uncomfy and had such restricted movement! That annoyed the crap out of me!! Good luck with your c section!

quite the opposite with me peachy i had very low platelets too so much so thats why i got induced in the end and they were anal about making sure i got the jab...1 a day for 5 days.. it's really really slack if you didn;t:(

I had most of the drugs even though i hate taking them as even though i have a high pain threshold..omg it hurt so bad.. and makes me wonder about whether I'm wanting elective this time!!

Four_eyes wrote: peachy wrote: I never had that injection either but then again I had very low platelet levels so they were more concerned that I wouldn't clot as opposed to the opposite..... maybe that is why some of us don't get that injection? I opted to take no drugs after my c section, I didn't need them TBH, I have a pretty high pain tolerance level and I wasn't sore at all. I was just majorly uncomfy and had such restricted movement! That annoyed the crap out of me!! Good luck with your c section! quite the opposite with me peachy i had very low platelets too so much so thats why i got induced in the end and they were anal about making sure i got the jab...1 a day for 5 days.. it's really really slack if you didn;t:( I had most of the drugs even though i hate taking them as even though i have a high pain threshold..omg it hurt so bad.. and makes me wonder about whether I'm wanting elective this time!!

Thats interesting as I never even new about this "injection" until this thread and my m/w never mentioned a thing to me about it ...I am going to ask around my friends that have had c sections as not one of them has ever mentioned that they have had it either. How weird.

I didn't have any injections after my C/S either. I had no idea that you needed it, and no-one (MW, hospital staff etc) even mentioned it... Very weird!

How bizaar that some people don't get it.
No idea what my platelets were doing but until this thread everyone I know whose had a c/s has had the injections.