C section advice.

Soutra I had mine in Ilford maternity, then Barking hospital in 77 and 79. They were obviously not as rushed as they are now.

Queen Mary's Roehampton and the Westminster, 73, 75, 77 and 81. As you say less rushed than now.

Haha Pinkprincess/Rubylady! Would love to add two more to my brood but think that 3 may be enough!

Cleaner came about as I'm too far away (2hr drive) to offer practical help. DS is very domesticated but he's back at work on Thursday and will have marking etc to do in the evening.

Oh and DIL was discharged 48 hours after c section under general! Way too soon.

My DIL had emergency Caesarean at 11.45pm and went home the next afternoon, I was horrified.....

I was in hospital about 14 days when I had my two.I just think that is terrible about your DIL Loopylou.The NHS is in a bad state now.

I was done both times with the long vertical incision and it was sheer hell bending over!

Me too pinkprincess 14 days and vertical incision which was in 1974. Most vivid memory was trying to clamber on to very high hospital bed.

Happy days to come tegan

I'm not sure about buying stuff apart from the V-shaped cushion somebody else recommended earlier, but my daughter (4 C-sections) reckons that anything that relieves standing, bending or lifting is a gift from heaven. For exemple, cleaning the loo and the bath is worse than being on the rack, I am told. When her friend had a C-section on Boxing Day absentdaughter, who was/is herself heavily pregnant, had already prepared a cornucopia of home-cooked meals supplied in those lidded plastic containers that are used by take-aways.

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Don't you sometimes wish predictive text would mind its own business?

Thought you'd gone all posh on us absent! Shades of 'my husband and I....'!

The V shaped cushion [they had one already] is really useful. I might get them a slo cooker so when DD goes back to work he could throw lots of food into it in the morning and they'll both have a meal for later. Someone told me the other day that, In Thailand people always have tea brewing in one pot and stew cooking in another and guests are offered both whatever time of day they arrive.