Q: if you had a C-section...

Re: Q: if you had a C-section...

• kastle member

  July 2011

  I would ask her what she would feel most comfortable with.

  It was 2-3 wks before I felt like seeing anyone besides my mom & husband but I've heard other ladies on here say they felt fine just a few days later.  but, some of that was also that I was having trouble BF'ing & didn't want anyone I didn't mind seeing me topless around (but mostly didn't want an audience as I was trying to nurse & pump)
  

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• tracy042206

  July 2011

  After both kids we had visitors and family pretty quickly.  My worst recovery was #1 and if people came over, did a load of laundry, heated me up some lunch and held the baby while I showered, then I was up for that kind of visitor immediately.  For friends that wouldn't be comfortable doing allt hat in my house then it was more like 2-3 weeks and even then I felt like I was drowining the first time around.  The second time we were good after 2 weeks - I was getting showered and dressed daily to get Maggie to daycare in the mornings and the house wasn't TOO much of a disaster.

  However for short visits of 30min or less I could handle those pretty quickly.  It does just depend on her physical recovery though.  With #1 it took me weeks to be able to lay down flat and get up to sitting without struggling.  With #2 I was doing that within days.

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• victoria1212 member

  July 2011

  we had visitors right away. my recovery was easy so I am sure that impacted us letting people come over but that time is kind of a big blur
  

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• mssaint

  July 2011

  I recovered pretty quickly from the c-section and was ok with brief visits a couple of days after I got home.
  

  

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• Sofka

  July 2011

  I knew before I had the baby that I didn't want any visitors the 1st week home. I ended up w/ a c-s but had a really easy recovery, so I was up for visitors right after that 1st week. I'd just ask her

   

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• LMH1209 member

  July 2011

  I was tired (in a recovering from surgery way on top of the lack of sleep) for a long time after coming home, but I generally felt much better after I was home than I did in the hospital. I was OK with certain friends stopping by within a few days of getting home -- people who chatted a little, held the baby, maybe dropped off dinner and left after an hour or so. Most of the friends who stopped by early on had children themselves so they understood what we were going through and didn't linger. So... I think you'd be fine to offer to stop by early on.

  

  

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• LindseyJW member

  July 2011

  you should just ask her. every one is different.

  i loved having visitors when we were in the hospital. but baby blues set in around 4 days, and i didn't want to see anyone for weeks. friends of mine who had surgical births embraced visitors right away, others wanted a few weeks to recover. 

  i suppose it might also matter how close the friend is. even though i was in the pits with baby blues, i still wanted my sister, mother, aunts and bff to visit.
  

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