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[quote=Anonymous]- gas pains! I actually don't remember pain but it did feel like the baby was still inside and kicking

- if you are breastfeeding, I found the breast friend pillow to be much much better than the boppy

- getting in and out of bed or a chair is really hard for a week or maybe two but I didn't have much discomfort walking around

- I bought c section undies that were super high and had a stretchy but tight panel that really helped me feel like everything was being kept together 
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- I did not need narcotics and was not even offered them - I took Tylenol and Motrin around the clock for a few weeks. After I was home it suddenly hit me that narcotics were even an issue because they were never offered. I think my responses to what my pain was 1-10 were always low enough (like 4 or 5) that the nurses didn't even bring them up.

- I labored and then pushed three hrs and then had to wait three more hrs for a C section because my baby was not in distress and other sections got pushed ahead of mine. I think as a result of all of that time with an epidural and on an IV, I had an enormous amount of water retention. Also the baby was pinching the connection between my kidney and bladder and I had no urine output that entire time. Hopefully you wouldn't have to deal with this with a planned C, but I seriously looked like I had elephantitis. It was about 25 lbs of water and I had to lift my legs up with my arms to get them onto an ottoman.

-Also not applicable to planned C but my arms were shaking and my teeth chattering like crazy during surgery from being on the epidural for so long. It was the most miserable part of the surgery. I couldn't hold the baby because I was shaking uncontrollably. I had wounds on either side of my tongue for days from my teeth chattering.

-My experience laboring and then having surgery after was horrible and recovery felt very manageable in comparison. I'm going to be scheduling a csection for my current pregnancy - no way I'm going through a failed labor again. [/quote]

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