@blessedbythebest88 I live on Canada, and I had an "unplanned" planned C-section 9 weeks ago, meaning we wanted to go for natural birth, but in my late 38 weeks maternity appointment, we've found out that the baby turned breech overnight. So there was a very quick decision: I was in the hospital at Thursday to assess the situation, and next Monday the C-section.
For me, the whole surgery went VERY chill. The only discomfort was that we had to go to the hospital at 1pm, and after that we waited for the OR be ready until 6:30pm. But otherwise everyone was amazing, professional and very kind.
Recovery-wise, the first night was the hardest, because I needed to come off from the meds and the spinal, which was some kind of morphine, so I literally had some wearing off side effects like a drug addict. But that night LO slept a lot, so I did not really had to breastfeed, and Husband and nurses were there to help.
Later when we went home: I just took care of the kid, and everything else was Husbands duty. I recommend the same for you guys, for us this was the first rule of thumb: I keep alive the baby, he keeps me alive. So he made sure I eat well balanced meals, and take my meds and vitamins. He drove, he carried everything, I only had to held the baby.
And for me the recovery was quite fast and non problematic. I couldn't lift heavy things and generally had to protect the scar, but it healed fast. Even the bleeding after wasn't that bad either. I expected much worse.
There was a couple of annoying side effects, but it's not a C-section side effect, more like Postpartum:
1. shivering during the night. It came very unexpected, because during my whole Pregnancy I've got hot flashes, so a couple of days after giving birth it was a brand new experience to literally shiver under my blanket in the warm room, where husband and baby slept very comfortable.
2. I am BONE DRY in my ladypart....I did not really realized this in the first six weeks as we were forbidden to have sex. And the first time we've had, it was the weirdest, painful feeling ever. Like I said bone...dry....even lubricant didn't help. This is still a problem though, so I'll bring it up in my next doctor's appointment, but as far as I heard it's very normal, and related to the breastfeeding.
And C-section mothers and babies often had breastfeeding problems: ma baby was only sleeping and did not want to eat in the first 24 hours after birth, and actually my body didn't know that ithasto start produce milk either. So we ended up combo feeding, which remained until today, ASI don't have enough milk supply for feed my boy, so formula top up is necessary.
So ups and downs, but scheduled C-sectionsare quite safe procedures today. Just make sure to take it easy in the first 6 weeks, don't lift anything heavier than your baby, take your painkillers, and eat, drink,rest a lot. Only take care of yourself and your baby. Everything else is Husband duty.