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[quote=Anonymous]I had 1 c-section and 2 VBACs at one hospital and a third VBAC at another hospital, both in the Midwest.

With the first three babies, DH stayed overnight with me. The nurses did diaper changes whenever they happened across a dirty diaper while doing a check of the baby, but it did not occur to us to ask them to change diapers between visits, since DH was there and had nothing else to do.  The nurses were all very friendly though, and I feel like they would have helped if I'd asked.

With the fourth baby, I sent DH home to stay with our other kids overnight. The nurses changed the baby's diapers while he was gone and they also changed the crib sheets and washed off the baby when the baby blew out his diaper.

For breastfeeding, I only had trouble with the first baby. There were LCs, but every shift nurse also had her own two cents on what I should do and some of them contradicted each other. Ultimately though, we figured it out and it worked fine.  For the remaining babies, the LCs and nurses didn't bother talking much about nursing once they realized I already had done it and wasn't having trouble.

I had epidurals with all three of my vaginal births, so even though I felt well enough to walk around immediately, the nurses required that I be supervised if getting up or walking to/from the bathroom for the first couple of hours after the birth. I didn't take any pain medication after except for Motrin.  I was able to go home just a little over 24 hours after the last birth.

After c-section, I had to stay in bed for some time and wasn't allowed to eat solids. I had a catheter in, which I really hated. It didn't hurt, but the idea just grossed me out so much.  But I was not in a lot of pain. I took only one of the heavy-duty pain pills they prescribed, and then switched to Motrin and it was totally fine. I was cleared to check out after about 48 hours, but we had to wait longer for the paperwork to be completed and baby to finish its tests.[/quote]

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