Caring for young kids after CS

start teaching him to climb into his highchair. Thats what I did with Tom. If your highchair is one that can go low put it down low.

The hardest thing I found was getting Tom in and out of his cot. I made him half climb by dragging a step over. He would step on that and then I would support him as we tipped him over to the cot. TO get him out I got him to stand up and I helped him stand on the rail and then into my arms and then I slithered him down me to the ground.

There were a couple of times I had to lift him. I just got in really close, bent my knees and hugged him as I stood up.

I think the first 3 weeks are the ones you really need to be careful of.

Ahh brilliant idea on the highchair .. im going to do that today as I lifted Issy into hers two days ago and just about shrieked!

Getting her out of the cot isnt too bad as she stands so shes at my waist height anyway.

The one time Ive had to put her into bed as there was no one else around to lift her I got her to climb up onto me while I was on the couch, and stood up with her, then I kind of tipped her into the cot (still not comfy though) ... we had thought of getting some steps and having her climb up, but havent got around to that yet.

Most of the time if she wants to be picked up, I sit down and have her climb up onto me so I dont have to bend down and lift her.

Im fortunate though that SD or my Mum is on hand (usually) to help out with her.

Oooh lowering the highchair! Will do this today! Already they hang off the chair when they're hungry anyway.
The only reason I'm watching this thread is for back pain reasons, honest

Yeah I taught Spencer to climb into his chair as well, he now goes and climbs into it whenever he is trying to tell me something, the little piggy.
I also taught him to climb into the car, so that I wouldn't need to lift him from the ground into his seat, just from the foot well to his seat (I didn't have a c/s in the end, but I think it would have made it easier).
I also taught him how to mostly climb in and out of the bath, he just needs a little assistance with being steadied but doesn't need to be lifted. (we don't have a shower)
We were gonna take the side off his cot had I had a c/s then he could have just climbed in himself as it's not that high, but I have no idea if he would have decided to climb back out and never go to sleep.

The one thing I really worried about was him kicking when I change his nappy, that one still isn't fixed now

Oh another thing I did was got him use to coming and sitting next to me, rather than on me, to read books, put his shoes on etc. and encouraged him to climb up on the sofa to sit next to me as well so he could be involved whilst feeding without me needing to lift him up or him wanting to be on me. This does however mean that goobers end up on your sofa

KA, recovery should be easier for you this time as your body won't have gone through labour before hand, but on the flipside you won't be able to blob out at the end of pregnancy as you will have a busy toddler to look after, so won't be as rested as with a first.

Caden is a kicker as well at nappy change time, he gets me in the tummy alot and it bloody hurts, so thats worrys me a bit!

At 14 months I think he might still be too little to get out the bath himself, so DH can do bath time! Even though Caden seems to hate Dh bething him *sigh*
Im definitly going to lower the highchair and start teaching him to climb in it himself.
I'll get the steps so he can climb up into his cot, with me holding his hands of course

lilfatty wrote: I actually found this elective "harder" than the emergency just because i got nerve damage this time and it was a longer operation because of what they found when they opened me up.

Is the nerve damage because of the surgeon doing a crappy job the first time round or something else entirely? Sorry, I'm just curious