Meeting the twins on monday!!!

bellestar922

We are scheduled for a C Section monday morning to meet the twins.. I am beyond excited.. and nervious..

Any last minute advise???

MuseumMaven

No advice, but congratulations and good luck!

akaMrsL

How exciting!  The best advice I got was to get up and move as soon as I was allowed.  Good luck!!

lisa&andy

Move around as much as you can, walking helps a ton with the gas and take all the meds they give you, even if you are feeling fine.

bellasmom27

I am recovering from a c-section right now and best advise I can give is when you go to the recovery room make sure to ask the nurse for your percocet every 4 hours. def make sure they also give you the gas x for the gas pains and do take the dulcalax suppositories to make you go to the bathroom, b/c of it, i was able to go by the 2nd or 3rd day! And walk, walk around the nurses station after the pain meds kick in b/c it will move the air around your belly and it will make you fart a lot the more you walk the more air comes out! Congrats and good luck!

Temp159135562506975

what everyone else said re: pain and gas meds - take them always!

and keep the incision dry --- mine took forever to heal b/c it wasn't getting dry enough (between sweating b/c it was june and being in my "fat flap" it was hard to get really dry).... once i started blowdrying it after showers it healed a lot better (put the setting on low of course)

 best of luck!!!

Temp6313048411121614

Ditto the walking (I had to have the nurse push the babies around b/c those bassinets are heavy and hurt to use those muscles.  I didn't have gas issues, but the walking definitely helped to keep my muscles loose. 

Sleep and rest as much as possible b/c 3.5 years after becoming a mom and I still don't see a time to relax in my future for a few years (when all of the boys are in school FT maybe).  Also soak in the last few hours you have to be pg.  Even if you're miserable (not saying you are or aren't), you could very well miss your belly and feeling your babies kick, it's an amazing experience that goes by too quickly.

megs_glo

Congratulations and GL!

JosiePosy

Definitely get moving as soon as you can. The first time you get up sucks big time, but ask for help. The more you move, the easier it gets. 

Ditto PPs about the gas-x and pain meds.

Also, and maybe this was just me and my operating room, but once you're on the table, pay attention to the lights above your table. If you can see your belly in the reflections off the steel, you may want to look elsewhere during your section. I was able to see my entire surgery reflected off of the lights. I'm a bio major, so I was both intrigued and freaked out by it. I kept looking up and looking away. I didn't look when they pulled the girls out, but I saw them open me up and sew me up.

Good luck!!!