https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 06 May 2026 06:43:27 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/elective-c-section/page/2#post-2757542 Wed, 12 Jul 2017 12:08:25 +0000 Raspberry 2757542@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I didn't have one but my friend elected for C-sections with both of her births. Her OB made her go to a counseling session to make sure that she was sure before authorizing it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/elective-c-section/page/2#post-2757484 Wed, 12 Jul 2017 10:57:46 +0000 Brandnew 2757484@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Hi, I know this thread is old but I'm new to New York, newly pregnant and in search of an OBGYN. I have what I would call a pathological fear of childbirth so I'm wondering if anyone here could help me out with an understanding doctor? Much appreciated! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/oops-going-home-2-days-post-c-section-accidently-closed#post-2114592 Thu, 19 Mar 2015 13:32:40 +0000 MrsF 2114592@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@BabyPenguinXO: my DD was born at 36 weeks and needed to stay an extra two nights even though she didn't need NICU or anything particularly special. Late-preterm babies tend to be sleepy nursers and they wanted to make sure she was eating well and gaining weight. It was really helpful for me to have the extra time! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/oops-going-home-2-days-post-c-section-accidently-closed#post-2114510 Thu, 19 Mar 2015 12:54:36 +0000 BabyPenguinXO 2114510@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MamaG: I was commenting to you when somehow I closed my thread! Lol!</p> <p>My only trouble is that they have rotating doctors so the doctor who does my c section won't necessarily be my discharge doctor. So I can't really tell them in advance a ton. My care is with the maternal fetal medicine specialists and the regular OBs do most of the deliveries even for the MFMs primary patients. But I'll mention it at my next appt!</p> <p>I'm delivering at 36 weeks due to severe cholestasis. So if baby isn't ready or if I'm not, I wont push it. But if we are both doing well then I definitely want to get home! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/oops-going-home-2-days-post-c-section-accidently-closed#post-2114387 Thu, 19 Mar 2015 11:56:27 +0000 charlotte 2114387@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I went home after 2 nights. It was my drs call and I had no complications so she said sure! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/oops-going-home-2-days-post-c-section-accidently-closed#post-2114384 Thu, 19 Mar 2015 11:54:01 +0000 MamaG 2114384@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I had responded previously. For my RCS, I had a two night stay. My OB would have let me stay longer if I wanted it. I had previously discussed with her that I wanted to get home quickly if possible.</p> <p>Everything about my RCS was easier for me. I hope the same for you. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/oops-going-home-2-days-post-c-section-accidently-closed#post-2114303 Thu, 19 Mar 2015 11:15:46 +0000 lilteacherbee 2114303@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>With my first (a scheduled c-section), I was home after 2 days. C-section was at 9:30am on Thursday and we were home around 2pm on Saturday.</p> <p>I'm thinking of taking the full 3 days this time, though. My LO will be 20 months and although I'll have help, I'm kinda wanting to have the extra time at the hospital! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/oops-going-home-2-days-post-c-section-accidently-closed#post-2114296 Thu, 19 Mar 2015 11:11:29 +0000 Mrs. Jump Rope 2114296@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@BabyPenguinXO: I had dd2 on Tuesday morning and was discharged Thursday afternoon. We were home by 6!</p> <p>DH slept at the hospital Tuesday night and at home on Wednesday so I sent DD2 to the nursery. (That made me realize that I haven't slept completely alone in seven years and was super weird and quiet)</p> <p>Dd1 had orientation on Thursday morning then he took her out to lunch &amp; shopping for school, so they didn't get to the hospital until after 2pm. It was much easier than I expected! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/oops-going-home-2-days-post-c-section-accidently-closed#post-2114271 Thu, 19 Mar 2015 10:52:10 +0000 Grace 2114271@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I had LO at 4 AM Thursday morning and was discharged 36 hours later. I was supposed to stay another night, but the hospital was full, DH couldn't stay with me, I was recovering very very well and I wanted to leave so they let me. It was under the condition that I take it very easy and that the public health nurse was able to visit me the next day. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/oops-going-home-2-days-post-c-section-accidently-closed#post-2114238 Thu, 19 Mar 2015 10:37:32 +0000 ValentineMommy 2114238@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>With my 1st csection, I had DS on a Wednesday and wasn't allowed home until Sunday! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/oops-going-home-2-days-post-c-section-accidently-closed#post-2114232 Thu, 19 Mar 2015 10:33:53 +0000 BabyPenguinXO 2114232@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Thanks ladies ! I'm delivering at 36w because of severe cholestasis of pregnancy. So if baby was not allowed to leave I won't push it! But if we are good I really wanna get home Sunday evening!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/oops-going-home-2-days-post-c-section-accidently-closed#post-2114204 Thu, 19 Mar 2015 10:21:44 +0000 Mamaof2 2114204@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@BabyPenguinXO: With my 1st I went home after about 24 hours - they needed my bed </p> <p>With my 2nd I stayed 4 nights - I was kinda scared to go home and have 2 kids to take care of :silly: However, its doable if you need too! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/oops-going-home-2-days-post-c-section-accidently-closed#post-2114198 Thu, 19 Mar 2015 10:15:52 +0000 Truth Bombs 2114198@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>One of my best friends had a RCS at 5pm on Monday and went home at noon on Wednesday. So assuming you don't have complications you should be able to do it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/oops-going-home-2-days-post-c-section-accidently-closed#post-2114195 Thu, 19 Mar 2015 10:14:59 +0000 OhCaptain 2114195@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I had my first on a Sunday night at 6pm and was discharged Tuesday at noon. Reason being, it was a small hospital and they needed the room for laboring moms. I was also healing really well. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/oops-going-home-2-days-post-c-section-accidently-closed#post-2114193 Thu, 19 Mar 2015 10:13:46 +0000 oliviaoblivia 2114193@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was home 29 hours after my daughter was born by RCS. I had a very easy recovery.<br /> I was supposed to stay another night, but I had trouble with the nursing staff and just wanted to get out of there.<br /> Looking back, if I had had a better nurse it would have been better to stay the second night. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/oops-going-home-2-days-post-c-section-accidently-closed#post-2114190 Thu, 19 Mar 2015 10:08:43 +0000 BabyPenguinXO 2114190@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I am having a repeat c section in 43 short days! It's at 8:30 in the morning on a Friday. I really want to be able to go home Sunday afternoon/evening... LO1 will be at home with my mom during my hospital stay. That's not a problem. Monday however, she leaves for a business trip. My fiancé can stay with our son, but I was hoping to have just my fiancé pick us up at the hospital to go home. Our son will only be 17 months old and it would just be easier to not sorry about him too.</p> <p>Has anyone had luck going home 2 lights after? It would be over 48 hours later. Normally they keep you 3-4 nights at my hospital. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/question-for-those-who-had-a-cesarean#post-502920 Mon, 14 Jan 2013 10:57:26 +0000 Jenn23 502920@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>That's awful! They tested me before cutting to make sure it didn't hurt. I told them I did feel it, but they said that was normal, that the doc pinched me so hard that without the spinal I would have screamed in pain. So all was good...all I felt was pressure during the surgery. Didn't regain feeling in my feet/legs for at least an hour afterwards back in recovery. I'm so sorry you went through that! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/question-for-those-who-had-a-cesarean#post-502872 Mon, 14 Jan 2013 10:45:47 +0000 Mrsbells 502872@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I did not feel any pain during the surgery, you only feel pressure</p> <p>I could not feel my legs or feet immediate after.</p> <p>The pain set in gradually as the meds wore off</p> <p>I think your experience was atypical </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/question-for-those-who-had-a-cesarean#post-502860 Mon, 14 Jan 2013 10:43:35 +0000 LazyLightning 502860@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have not had a c-section but I have had other surgery with local anesthesia and have learned that I have to tell them "I am not sensitive to pain medicine." Otherwise it wears off before they're done. Maybe that's what happened to you? I had one experience where I could absolutely feel them stitching up the incision, because the med had worn off that area. So sorry! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/question-for-those-who-had-a-cesarean#post-501023 Sat, 12 Jan 2013 21:31:15 +0000 LittleFox 501023@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I could not feel any cutting during my c-section. However, I could feel intense pressure pain, which I don't think is normal. I was in enough pain to be screaming and crying, so they increased the medicine in my epidural enough that I basically passed out and fell asleep. Mine was an emergency c-section and I was able to feel pain from my back labor pretty intensely even with the epidural, though it did keep me from feeling contractions at first and make my legs numb. </p> <p>My legs were numb for some time after surgery, but my nurse warned me about that and it didn't bother me since it was normal. I also shook some initially, but was told that was a normal reaction to the anesthesia. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/question-for-those-who-had-a-cesarean#post-500761 Sat, 12 Jan 2013 19:02:30 +0000 autumnlove 500761@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LaineysMom: Mine was a emergency C-section after 36 hours of labor. I told the anesthesiologist that I wasn't numb after the spinal so he administered more. He told me it would kick in. The OBs were pretty shocked when I cried and moved during the surgery. I had to be strapped down and pushed down by my husband, nurses and anesthesiologist. They finally gave me a laughing gas that calmed me down!</p> <p>My next baby is due in April so I hope that was a fluke! Maybe without the labor...the meds will work? </p> <p>I'm so sorry you had a similar experience! I'll let you know how my scheduled C-section goes! My OB is trying to arrange for an anesthesiologist attending to be present at my next surgery..hopefully that makes a difference! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/question-for-those-who-had-a-cesarean#post-500705 Sat, 12 Jan 2013 18:31:42 +0000 LaineysMom 500705@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@autumnlove: Urgh.. horrendous! Was yours a scheduled or an emergency?? Mine was a little of both.</p> <p>I was expecting something like what a lot of you are describing.. No pain, but significant pressure. I felt both. Urgh..</p> <p>The time between my spinal and when they started cutting me open was less than 10 min b/c Lainey's daddy was only sitting by himself for 10 mintues..</p> <p>I had a scheduled C-sec, but I think they were getting pretty worried since I had gone into labor and my baby's HR was dropping.</p> <p>I remember them asking if I could feel them pinch me and I said yes, but it didn't hurt too bad. Gosh, I should have known when I could feel everything they were doing to me and I could still feel my legs when they started.</p> <p>I know I was partially numb b/c I'm sure I would have passed out/jumped off the table if I could feel absolutely everything, but HOLY CRAP it hurt SO BAD. I remember them stopping and the anesthesiologist asking me if the pain was going down and I kept saying NO NO! Then I don't remember much after that.. When I became fully conscious they were closing me up and I was in SO MUCH PAIN. Luckily I had a perfect little baby staring at me.. :)</p> <p>I'm glad that my experience is out of the ordinary. After the whole ordeal I was thinking that maybe I was just being a wimp?? But luckily it sounds like I'm somewhat of an anomaly.. Good thing or else I would be terrified to have any more kids. I'm still probably going to be super freaked out next time.. :( </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/question-for-those-who-had-a-cesarean#post-500153 Sat, 12 Jan 2013 11:31:52 +0000 Baby Boy Mom 500153@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I couldn't feel anything when they made the incision, definitely couldn't feel my feet for at least an hour, and it took even longer to start feeling any pain. Sounds like yours was pretty bad- sorry! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/question-for-those-who-had-a-cesarean#post-500150 Sat, 12 Jan 2013 11:28:46 +0000 yoursilverlining 500150@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Did not feel any pain (or even pressure really) when they made the incision; couldn't move my feet for about an hour. Things came back without pain - I kept trying to wiggle my toes and suddenly one minute I could, and then a few minutes later I could wiggle more of my legs. That didn't hurt either. I can't remember when the pain first settled in - but definitely not while in the OR!! Yikes!!! :( </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/question-for-those-who-had-a-cesarean#post-500075 Sat, 12 Jan 2013 10:10:04 +0000 NerdBee 500075@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Omg, your experience sounds like my worst nightmare. I did not feel the incision but I did feel pain after LO was pulled out and they were doing something down there. I kept saying I could feel something but couldn't describe what I felt since I've never felt anything like it before. They kept telling me that it's normal to feel pressure. Well, it got so bad that I started to dry heave and the anesthesiologist injected something into my IV that made it so I didn't feel anything again. Afterwards, I heard my OB and anesthesiologist talking and it seemed that the spinal wore off too quickly. </p> <p>So it sounds like maybe your spinal did not take from the beginning. They really should have tested that before making the incision!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/question-for-those-who-had-a-cesarean#post-500047 Sat, 12 Jan 2013 09:39:47 +0000 erwoo 500047@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Wow, I'm sorry you had to go through that. :( How terrifying! Like @bree72 my OB actually pinched me with some tool until I couldn't feel anything. I actually saw where he pinched afterwards but it was no big deal. Better a few scars than to feel it like what happened to you. With my second c-section it took a while for the spinal to take effect b/c they purposefully injected it into a lower spinal area b/c with my first section they must have did it too high that I had trouble breathing twice during the procedure. It was quite scary! With my first I didn't feel much when they were telling me that I'll feel lots of pressure. With my second I felt A LOT of pressure and it tickled! I started giggling during the procedure. I'm sure that was nerve wrecking for my OB. Haha! But he joked it off by saying we can name our son Elmo. :P </p> <p>I'm glad everything's okay though. You might want to talk to your OB about your experience and see what he/she says. Also, if you plan on having another section, tell that anesthesiologist about your first experience and he/she will adjust as needed. I did that the second time around and I didn't have any chest pressure like I did the first time.</p> <p>As for pain afterwards, it was managed well through meds. They also actually started this new thing where they put a teeny tube where I had my section and that tube went into a machine that automatically injected numbing meds into my incision area for up to 3 days after the procedure. It was SO much less painful the second time around b/c of that. The only down side was that I had to walk around with a silly bag everywhere I went. It was so bad. I was happy to carry that around than to feel pain. I don't think I started to take percocet until after I was off that bag of numbing meds. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/question-for-those-who-had-a-cesarean#post-500044 Sat, 12 Jan 2013 09:33:44 +0000 BananaPancakes 500044@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>They tested different spots of my body with this little stick thing to be sure everything was asleep well before they did the incision. And it was probably 30-45 minutes before I could feel my feet in recovery. I couldn't move anything but my toes for another 30 min past that. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/question-for-those-who-had-a-cesarean#post-500042 Sat, 12 Jan 2013 09:30:51 +0000 autumnlove 500042@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Sorry to hear this. I had a similar experience! :-( </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/question-for-those-who-had-a-cesarean#post-500039 Sat, 12 Jan 2013 09:29:04 +0000 Mrs. Train 500039@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope, I didn't feel anything but pressure. It took awhile for my feet to move and I didn't feel much pain for about an hour or two </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/question-for-those-who-had-a-cesarean#post-500023 Sat, 12 Jan 2013 09:00:58 +0000 littleveesmommy 500023@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yikes I'm sorry you felt the incision and pain so soon! After the spinal kicked in, the anesthesiologist used a metal tool to test y level of numbness from my shoulders down to see how far it went. I couldn't feel anything below my chest. I was able to move my legs about 20-30 minutes after but they felt like lead logs. </p>