I say that and you're going to think "obviously" but look at how people treat c-sections mothers.
"Oh I tore down there during pregnancy, that was really bad!"
"Walk around!"
"You should be able to do everything still."
I just had a gaping wound cut into my stomach, doctors searched around in my organs, pulled on them, pulled some out, and then yanked a living being out of me. It's so much worse than people make it out to be. I went into it thinking it wasn't a huge deal, I actually wanted one originally because I was terrified my baby would be huge (daddy was 11 pounds).
I am still experiencing pain four months later, the nerve damage that feels like a sun burn when anything touches it, and pain when I cough or sneeze too hard or bend the wrong way, or baby kicks it, or this and that etc. I've been told that basically doesn't end. Yet we're treated like it's not a BIG THING.
When I came home I could barely walk, it hurt to even sit on my couch let alone get up from a laying position to feed and change my newborn all night long. Granted some of my pain could have been the car wreck 2 days prior to being sliced open, it's still a crazy feat.
My husband is not one for helping. Pretty terrible really. So I was still cleaning, cooking, doing all the normal bills and normal things SAHM's do while recovering from a cs and developing an amazing cold. It didn't help my recovery time, neither did having emergency gallbladder surgery barely a month later.
I've since mostly healed, the scars are sensitive and as I mentioned before I still have the pain from my cs but it's not as bad as it was.
CS mama's deserve much more credit than they are given.
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ReplyDeletei would like to say, i personally think c-sections are much worse than vaginal delivery. I was able to do everything right after i delivered vaginally. I was praying I WOULDNT need a c-section bc i heard how much they are painful annd how the after effects can be damaging and longlasting, even permanent. IDK why anyone would think vaginal birth is worse than a c-section....i'm pretty damn sure getting sliced open soo deep to take a baby out is far more painful than a hole opening a bit bigger to fit a baby.
Truly lol. I had both and the vadge one was painful, but not anywhere near the cs. I meanit was coupled with a car wreck but either way an incision that big is going to hurtyou. The nerve damage is super nannoying :/
DeleteI have no clue why but i recovered amazingly! It hurt but i guess the only challenging thing for me was getting up out of bed. But that's not to say having a section or recovering from one is easy, i guess i was just lucky (and happy not to be in labor anymore after 60 hours)
ReplyDeleteYes! By the time they told me I needed one I was too exhausted to care lol. Getting up was super hard omg. It didn't help that my and and shOulders were messed up from the wreck lol
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