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Hi everyone, thought I would come on and leave a wee update. As I said before I was due in for an elective c section in December 08, well on the 29th of December at 12:16pm my beautiful baby boy was born, weighing a healthy 8lb 5oz :) I just wanted to come on and say to all you ladies that are getting c-sections and worry about it, that my experience was amazing and so much better than I ever thought it could be. As in my previous post I was extremely nervous and I was reading every article and forum I could to try and gain some knowledge in what I would experience, but in fact I had nothing to be nervous about. My doctors and all the other staff made me feel so calm and they were extremely helpful to me and my husband during the surgery. I had to get a spinal previously to repair the damage I suffered after my daughter was born and it was very difficult to get this in and this was a horrible and painful experience for me and I was worried that this time would be the same, because of this past problem I was seen by my consultant and aneathatist on several occasions before my surgery and on the day I went in they were all there supporting me through it and the head aneathatist who carried out the spinal procedure on me for the section managed to get it in after only 4 attempts and within 20 mins of this my boy was born I could not believe how quickly it all happened and I was back up in my ward an hour after going down to theatre. My husband was allowed to watch the full surgery if he wished to do so so he could see what was happening, but as he is very squemish he decided not to so sat by my side instead. The only problem I had throughout my recent experience was they used the proline beads and one of them was very tight causing me to get an infection which ended up going through my wound and I was on very strong antibiotics for a week. I was out of hospital after 2 nights, however I did not expect the pain afterwards when trying to get out of bed or stand up. I do not know how much pain is experienced by other ladies or if my pain was caused by the infection but I was very sore and uncomfortable for at least 3 weeks. My boy is 4 weeks old now and I am still sore if I stand up too quickly or if I have to lift my 2 year old but that is to be expected as it was major surgery.

On the whole though I would definately have an elective c-section again, that's if I can talk my hubbie into having more kids ;) ha ha.

I hope you all get on ok and enjoy the experience as much as I did.

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