What was surgery day like?

jasherlove

We'll be having our c/s in just over 2 weeks and I've been doing research on what it's like.  Everyone says to get up and walk as soon as they let you .  Does that typically mean the day of the c/s or the next day?  I'm not sure how long I'll be laid up and MH and I are trying to figure out how we want to handle visitors that first day etc.  Can anyone walk me through their first day?  Thanks!!

magdalina.h

Mine was scheduled for noon, but due to an emergency c/s he was born at 1:30. I don't know what time it was, but in the middle of the night is when the nurses had me up to walk to the bathroom. Again he was born at 1:30 pm and we had visitors by 2:30. Our

Andie41

My DS was born about 11:30 and I was up around dinner time.

Neener73

I arrived two hours before

brparish

I had a c-section after 30 hours of labor...I will say the stuff they give you to drink to neutralize your stomach before surgery is awful.  I made the mistake of taking a sip first and it was rancid.  The nurse proceeded to tell me that I shoul

9fraulein

I had the surgery at 5pm after 48 hrs of a failed induction. Sometime during the night I walked with the nurse's help to the bathroom to clean up the bleeding down there, still had the catheter till about 20 hrs post surgery though. I was so scared I woul

Kie310

My son was born at 9:11am. They got me out of bed around 9pm that night to stand up and sit in the chair. I stayed there for a few hours and really got up to walk the next morning. Not too much at first, don't push it... But yes, get up and move when t