Swelling?

mamatotwins0812 · July 2012

I just delivered my baby boys via c section this past Sunday. The pain of the surgery is completely bearable, but I swelled a LOT. From my waist down, my legs and feet swelled to 3x the size if what they normally are. It's uncomfortable and difficult to do things. Every nurse and doctor tells me it's normal and will go away but it hasn't yet and it's almost been a week. Has anyone else experienced this? How long did it take to go down? TIA.

mkinMI · July 2012

Yep, completely normal. I've had two c-sections and thy pump you full of so much fluid afterwards. I can't remember exactly how long, but I know it was more than a week. I think maybe more like 2-ish weeks?

ChristinaCT · July 2012

Totally normal. I remember feeling freakish by the amount of post swelling. Lie down, hydrate & elevate when you can. It will probably last a week or 2

mben1119 · July 2012

Mine lasted over 2 weeks PP, and was terrible.

kes77 · July 2012

I didn't experience this but my SIL did after her c/s. I think it took a week or two to go down. She was told to drink a lot of water to help decrease the swelling. GDLK!

HotChocolate79 · July 2012

Yes-not to scare you but it took a full six weeks for my swelling to go down. My feet did not look like feet for that long. Then again, I had terrible swelling issues the entire pregnancy so I may have gotten the extreme version of this. Most people seem to get better with this within two weeks.