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The same thing happened to me. They initally released me from the hospital 2 days after my section. i was home for 2 days when I started having some drainage. No one warned me about this so I went straight to the emergency room. They gave me an oral antibiotic and sent me home. Two days after that, it was still draining. I woke up in the middle of the night and found that I had complely soaked my bed with drainage. So back to the emergency room, where the doctor told me that i should not have been given oral antibiotics, that i had an absyss that had burst. He told me that i would have to keep coming in to the hospital every day to have it drained and to stop taking the antibiotics. I went in the next day, as the doctor told me to, and the nurse there took one look at it and advised me that the infection was one of the worst she had ever seen and that the emergency room doc should have emmitted me on the spot. My OB came down and looked at the drainage and thought that they may have "nicked" my bowel during the c-section (that is how brown the drainage was). So the specialist came down and looked and he said that the bowel was fine (thank goodness) just that the infection was really bad. So my OB opened the incision back up, drained it, and left it open. I was admitted to the hospital for another 48hrs of IV anitbiotics. Then went I was sent home, back on oral anitbiotics. Initially, i had 3ft of packing in the wound that had to be changed everyday.So everyday I had a nurse coming to my home to change the dressing.I had my baby in july, here it is Oct now and I still have the nurse coming every 2 days to change the packing. There is not much left to pack now, they are basically just laying pakcing on the top of the incision to keep it open that little bit to heal. The wound was originally 5inches long and 4 inches deep. Now it is less than 1/2 an inch wide and deep. This was my first preganancy and I knew nothing about c-sections. I found out the hard way that i am what they call "drug sensitive". When they gave me demoral early on, i overdosed. Then the same thing happened with the epidural. So when I went in for my section, I could feel every cut that they made. They couldn't give me any more of the epidural without the risk of me overdosing again. So eventually they put me out completely. My husband had to leave the room and he missed the birth. i only got to see my daughter 12hrs later. Needless to say, delivering this way is less satisfying and then having the complications. So the only advice that I can give is that you know your body and you know when some thing is not right. KEEP PUSHING THE ISSUE! Doctors are not always right all the time, don't be afraid to speak up!

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