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@ - ? if you had a c-section
I had a c-section with DS but he was admitted to the NICU so the process for spending time with him after birth was different. So provided there are no complications, how long are you typically separated from your baby after delivery?
Re: @ - ? if you had a c-section
I had a c/s with both kids. With DS I was separated for about an hour and DH was with him that whole time. With DD, who was 5 weeks early, I was only separated for the length of time it took to get everything closed up and send me to recovery, about 40 minutes. She did not have to stay in the NICU at all.
With both children, we roomed in, though also with both, I sent them to the nursery a couple of times so I could get some sleep.
This is a helpful thread. I have to have a c section this time, and this is the part that is bothering me. I want immediate reward for my hard work. :-)
I am adding this to my list to ask my midwife next week.....
I think I got to hold him and be with him maybe an hour, hour and a half after the operation. I remember the big thing was the nurses wanted to make sure I was getting feeling back in my legs and that I could start to move them.
H was with DS the entire time until they brought him back to me. (I nursed him for the first time in the recovery room while we were waiting to go up to our room).
I think H was in the nursery with him. I know he got to see the first bath and show him off to my mom who was on the other side of the window that looks into the nursery.
With Jackson, my husband held him while sitting next to me the whole time we were in the OR. Then I was taken to my room where I could hold him and stuff.
With Scarlett, my insides were a bit of a mess, so MH sat with her in the recovery room instead of the OR for awhile and waited for me there. They were with me for a bit so I could see them, but it was probably 30 or 45 minutes after they left that I was finished in the OR.
At my hospital, my husband and nurses take the baby to the nursery for bath, foot prints, etc. It takes awhile to do that stuff.
Meanwhile, they finish sewing you up, then you get wheeled to recovery, and when you can move your legs you get sent to your PP room, where my husband and baby are waiting.
To clarify, I am groggy after surgery because I sleep terribly during pregnancy. being in a dark, quiet room with an empty uterus makes it very hard for me to stay awake.
ETA: the baby laid on me for a long time before they headed down to the nursery. The nurse had my husband hold her against me.
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This minus the sleeping and the sweet experience of the baby being held against me. I got to see her and talk to her for a few minutes then they both went to the nursery. In retrospect I wish I had someone there to just be with me once he left. I was very scared as it was my first time having any surgery, let alone a csection.
two c-sections in two different hospitals.
Both times, immediately after being closed, I was taken back to my room and the baby was brought right in.
So, maybe 45 minutes with #1, and a tad longer with #2 (because it takes longer to close after the second C because of scar tissue, etc.)
Both times, H was with them the whole time. #1 was taken to the nursery for a few minutes because she was purplepurple, but by the time I was done, she was fine.
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I've had 2 sections. I got both babies back about an hour and a half later.
Based on your OP, I would infer you had an emergency or at least unplanned section. A scheduled section is different. I would even say it was relaxing and calm! I was joking around with my doctor the whole time with #2.
Ditto all this except for her being put in my arms after getting sewn up. I was still shaking too hard so DH held her up to me but it took me another 10-15 minutes before I could hold her on my own and try to nurse. We'd wanted DH to do skin-to-skin but since the OR was a sterile zone, it wasn't permitted.
I got to look at her for about 30 minutes, then they took her to the NICU "just to check things out" (the cord had been wrapped around her neck) when they took me to recovery. I was in the recovery room for about 3-4 hours because I was losing a lot of blood. DH stayed with the baby the whole time, and they joined me sometime during that 3-4 hours, and after that she stayed with me the entire time.
oh, yeah, I got to hold my kids for a bit before they went off to get sucked out and bathed.
I had an epi so wasn't groggy or shaky. DD was never sepetated from me at all.
Las soon as they finished weighing, measuring, etc. and it was clear we were both fine they handed her to me. It took maybe 5 minutes or so.
Unless you have general or react badly to the spinal/epi there is no medical reason not to have the baby with you except for pointless hospital rules if there are no complications.
I'm planning a VBAC for the next baby since it's safer but have been researching natural c/s, aka family friendly c/s practices to discuss with my OB if a c/s is necessary. Look into it.
I wasn't separated from my baby at all. She stayed in the OR until they were done sewing me up. Then I held her as they wheeled us to the recovery room, and she stayed in recovery with us for an hour or two. After that, my husband accompanied her to the nursery for her exam and stuff while I transferred to my postpartum room and rested.
If mom and baby are healthy, there is no reason to routinely separate them just because the mother had a c/s. And I have heard of hospitals changing this policy because of input from mothers, so if your hospital separates you and your baby for no reason, and you don't like it, let them know.
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I'm honestly shocked so many of you didn't get to have the baby with you in recovery.
They had her in that little plastic crib while they sewed me up and DH cut the cord then they weighed her and did all those tests. I could see her the whole time. Then they put her on my chest (not skin to skin though) while they wheeled us to recovery. She was with me the whole time. That's when the whole family came in (2 at a time) to see/hold her, so I wasn't "bonding" per se, but I could have. I had the horrid shakes like a pp, so all I really cared about was making that stop.
I'm hoping this time around, since it's planned, I won't have such a bad reaction.