Birthrites: Healing After Caesarean.

'Next time there is no way i will have a c/s.'

I've only had the one baby but i would like to tell someone or everyone about my delivery (or lack of) I was in labour for 5 days

Over the five days went into hospital about 3 or 4 time and told to go home as it was going to be a lot longer

They gave me some sleeping tablets on the last visit and told me to go home and have a bath and a sleep as i was still only 2 or 3 cm dialated Mind you for a couple of weeks before all this started i was in a huge amount of pain and was begging them to do something and nothing was done

Anyway took the sleeping tablets sat on the bed to have a sleep and the pain got soooooo bad i mean with a couple of minutes i was up and screaming like hell

Got to the hospital in the afternoon and had gas Totally lost it I felt like i was falling asleep and everytime i had a contraction would wake up and i couldn't even remember i was pregnent or who my partner was until the next contraction etc.

Bit wierd!! Can't really remember much after that except little snipets of asking my partner who he was and asking what i'm doing here etc.

Woke up compleatly numb in very early morning(had given me an epidural)

Couldn't figure out what was going on at all

Just heaps of people looking at me

Then the pain came back really bad and really fast

Gave me gas again Big mistake

Can remember anything after that until i herd someone telling me to push

Then someone shove something in my face and said i need to have a c-section

The c/s was fine i wasn't tripping out because there was no more gas i was lying there talking to my partner having a wonderful time

I was taken up to the ward and everythings all over i have a wonderful baby boy

Mind you all of the above was the good part of the story

A couple of days later the nurse told me i had some hemeraging due to some blood vesase being left untied

But she said it was no big deal and my body would absorb it and it would go away

By the time i left the hospital i was brused fron knees to boobs

Go a urainry track infection before i left the hospital so i'd been wetting myself reguarly as i could hardly move little own run to the toilet

Really embarsing!!

So i was home in bed or lying on the couch for the next few days because i couldn't move about three days after going home i woke in the middle of the night to go to the toilet (try to make it to the toilet)

Go to the end of the bed and wet myself

I was extreamly emotional and was crying

My fantastic partner got up to comfort me and told me not to worry sat me on a chair and turn the light on

I was covered in blood the floor was cover in blood i have never in my life seen sooooo much blood

Rang the hospital and they told me it was okay and it was just the hematoma try to get out of my body

Happen two more times before it stopped doing it

But it was really scary

about a week after getting home i really needed a break so my mum took me up to my Grandmas for a holiday just a couple of days

Had a really nice relaxing time went to be had a great sleep woke up in the morning and my sore was soo infected that i had compleatly come open

I was histerical

We went straight to hospital

Had to have an opperation to remove all the infected fat and tissue

When i woke i was told that the infection had started from the inside and thats why it had seemed to open so fast

Also because the infection started on the inside they couldn't sow up the new wound

I was in hospital for about two weeks then sent home

Every day a nurse and so come to my house and put dressing in my open wound The wound was bigger than a normal c/s scar because they had to take that infected stuff out too

Was about 20cm long and about 9-10cm deep

It was an open wound for about 5mths

Anyway next time there is no way i will have a c/s

I would prefer to die before i go through that again

I know it sounds stupid but unless you've been through what i've been through you can't come close to understanding!