how many nights in hospital for c-section?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:4 nights. It was nice to stay in the hospital and have people there to help us out...it's hard to get around after a c-section.

By the way, I was feeling OK when I went home and ended up overdoing it - stairs. Don't do stairs if you can help it for a few weeks after you get home. I eventually just went down and up once per day, if that, for a few weeks.

Maybe I am just stubborn, but I was up and down the stairs the day I got home. It was a little tough, but you just take it totally slowly and you should be fine. After a few weeks I was completely recovered, so don't let this post concern you. I think this person was overly cautious.

4 days is a typical stay in the hospital and I would recomend to stay the whole time because you will need your rest and the bed is much more comfortable (it is hard to sit up on your own and the hospital bed allows you to raise yourself up).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:4 nights. It was nice to stay in the hospital and have people there to help us out...it's hard to get around after a c-section.

By the way, I was feeling OK when I went home and ended up overdoing it - stairs. Don't do stairs if you can help it for a few weeks after you get home. I eventually just went down and up once per day, if that, for a few weeks.

Maybe I am just stubborn, but I was up and down the stairs the day I got home. It was a little tough, but you just take it totally slowly and you should be fine. After a few weeks I was completely recovered, so don't let this post concern you. I think this person was overly cautious.

4 days is a typical stay in the hospital and I would recomend to stay the whole time because you will need your rest and the bed is much more comfortable (it is hard to sit up on your own and the hospital bed allows you to raise yourself up).

Women who have endometriosis need to be careful about things like the stairs when the incision is first healing. Anything that stretches the internal stitches can cause leakage of small amounts of blood that you will never see...but you may definitely feel in the future. After my surgery, I could make it up and down the stairs, and my doctor had a heart attack when I went in a week later and he learned how much I was doing. And I have to say a couple years later, I am now paying the price -those adhesions are PAINFUL!!

[Anonymous]

I did three nights in the hospital both times. My doctor had me up and walking within 24 hours, and he expressed surprise that I hadn't taken a shower 24 hours after the first c-section. So I got up and did it.

I had great recoveries and walked up and down the stairs easily at 3 days. For my first c-section I never took any pain meds once I got home. For the second, I took some of the strong aspirin, but that's it.