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[quote=Anonymous]I had three c-sections (one unplanned)

The unplanned one was a little different so for the planned ones I got to the hospital at the assigned time, hung out in the room until they were ready for me. I did not have to fast the night before, just not eat anything that day.

When it was prime time DH was given scrubs and they took me to the OR to put in the spinal. To do that they have you sit on a table, back exposed, and they insert the needle. It feels funny, not wonderfully comfortable but not bad, sometimes they will ask for input on how you are feeling it (I was at a teaching hospital). Then they had me lie down and everyone started getting everything ready, its a busy room. Everyone is moving around. DH came in and they got the screen up and then they prepped the area (basically put a lot of antibacterial stuff on your stomach). I didn't feel this but you can see them swabbing you.

At this point you start to feel a little fuzzy. The anesthesiologist was always right there with me in every surgery, talking to me and asking me how I was feeling. I frequently felt nauseous during this part and they would administer some medication to make me feel better through the tap or the IV or whatever. Then the surgery starts, they get the baby out. I will say this was sometimes more physical than I expected. For my third baby in particular they really had to PUSH on my stomach to get her down and out. It was not painful but you could definitely feel a LOT of pressure (imagine a very heavy blanket, like the weighted kind, pushing on your stomach).

Once the baby was out they (I saw them as they pulled them up), they would take the baby over for their APGAR, get cleaned up etc. This was always in my sightline and DH would go see the baby. And then they would bring the baby over for skin to skin while they sewed me up. This is also a lot of pressure as they kind of put everything back where it is supposed to be but then you enter kind of a hazy state with the medication and the baby as they finish up. It takes about 30-40 minutes post baby for the surgery to be done. And then you and the baby get taken to the hospital room to recover!

In case this is valuable I will go over what was different in an urgent section:

1) I was only able to stay awake because I had opted into an epidural when I arrived at the hospital. I had HELLP and if my epidural wasn't already in place they would have had to put me under general anesthesia

2) My baby was in distress and went to the NICU immediately

3) I had a magnesium drip because of pre-e and so was VERY out of it and not able to see my baby for about a day[/quote]

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