Birth - So was it as bad as you expected?

I was lucky with the girls I got to elect a c-section which went about as straight forward as it gets. I was even first on the list for the day. I know alot of women worry about recovery time with a C/S but I had no problems I never touched the morphine drip they gave me and I was up walking around, holding the babies and showering the next day. I stayed in hospital for 5 days but only because my milk didn't come in and I didn't want to leave until I was confident feeding 2 babies.

I guess at the end of the day everyone is so different and yet we all cope with what ever we're delt with and survive those first few weeks only to look back and wonder where the time went and how we got to this place where we truely feel like a Mum. My first REAL Mum moment was when the girls were a few months old and had a cold I rubbed some baby vicks on them and suddenly realised I'm a Mum I think everything prior to that was just a muddled, making things up as I go along blur

Oooh, I'd forgotten about the after pains. I didn't have them with Dominic and so when they came after Isobelle I thought something was horribly wrong.

xox6Girls1Boyxox wrote: Oh and when you go for your 1st wee beware coz that stings like a B***h.... No one told me about that....

Drink lots of ural and touch your toes... don't try sitting straight again until after you've wiped! (or dabbed very gently lol) At home I kept a pump bottle with water and a drop of tea tree oil for squirting after a widdle.