How to Prepare For a C Section - 4 Tips For When You Get Home
Well, you made it through.
You have get your new baby (or babies).
Congratulations! Now the real fun begins.
Coming home with little ones is a great feeling, especially after you have spent five days in hospital.
If this is your first child it is a great time to bond with them as you rest up from your surgery.
But if you have other children this can be the time when things start to go wrong quickly.
Fortunately one of the positive things about knowing that you are having a c section is that you can put certain things in place to prepare for a c section recovery when you get home.
1 - Organize some help.
Whether you beg, steal, borrow or hire it.
The more children that you have, the more help that you will need.
Unfortunately your best chance of an uncomplicated recovery comes when you just have yourself and baby to look after, which means that all other responsibilities, like other children, washing, vacuuming, sweeping, running around dropping kids of here and there have to take a back seat.
You need to prepare for rest after your c section - If you don't HAVE to do it.
DON'T do it.
Organize someone else to do it for you.
Most people are more than happy to oblige.
2 - Don't leave last minute shopping for when you get home.
Try to anticipate what you will need for baby in the way of feeding bottles, sterilizers, clothing, bedding and so forth.
You won't just be able to 'pop down to the shop' in the car if you haven't got anything important.
3 - Organize your 'work stations'.
Put it the things that you will need regularly within easy reach of the bench, change pad or baby bath so that you are not over extending or straining every time that you need to change a nappy, feed or bath baby.
4 - Organize your rooms.
If you have a split level home or you were planning on putting bub down the far end of the house, it may pay to move baby closer until your 6 week check and put in night lights.
The last thing that you want to be doing is walking up and down stairs four or five times a night in the dark.
How you prepare for a c section will determine how you heal.
If you handle that first six weeks properly this can determine whether you have an uncomplicated recovery or not.
Follow some simple rules and you may even start to feel better earlier.
Overdo it and I can almost guarantee that you'll feel much worse for much longer.
You have get your new baby (or babies).
Congratulations! Now the real fun begins.
Coming home with little ones is a great feeling, especially after you have spent five days in hospital.
If this is your first child it is a great time to bond with them as you rest up from your surgery.
But if you have other children this can be the time when things start to go wrong quickly.
Fortunately one of the positive things about knowing that you are having a c section is that you can put certain things in place to prepare for a c section recovery when you get home.
1 - Organize some help.
Whether you beg, steal, borrow or hire it.
The more children that you have, the more help that you will need.
Unfortunately your best chance of an uncomplicated recovery comes when you just have yourself and baby to look after, which means that all other responsibilities, like other children, washing, vacuuming, sweeping, running around dropping kids of here and there have to take a back seat.
You need to prepare for rest after your c section - If you don't HAVE to do it.
DON'T do it.
Organize someone else to do it for you.
Most people are more than happy to oblige.
2 - Don't leave last minute shopping for when you get home.
Try to anticipate what you will need for baby in the way of feeding bottles, sterilizers, clothing, bedding and so forth.
You won't just be able to 'pop down to the shop' in the car if you haven't got anything important.
3 - Organize your 'work stations'.
Put it the things that you will need regularly within easy reach of the bench, change pad or baby bath so that you are not over extending or straining every time that you need to change a nappy, feed or bath baby.
4 - Organize your rooms.
If you have a split level home or you were planning on putting bub down the far end of the house, it may pay to move baby closer until your 6 week check and put in night lights.
The last thing that you want to be doing is walking up and down stairs four or five times a night in the dark.
How you prepare for a c section will determine how you heal.
If you handle that first six weeks properly this can determine whether you have an uncomplicated recovery or not.
Follow some simple rules and you may even start to feel better earlier.
Overdo it and I can almost guarantee that you'll feel much worse for much longer.