C section with toddler

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I am two weeks post C-section and have a little boy who’s only 20 months. I didn’t have a C-section with my first and was absolutely devastated when I was told baby was breech and I would have to have a section. My biggest worry was how I was going to manage the recovery with my little boy. I can honestly say I didn’t have anything to worry about. My biggest advice is to remember it is major surgery and therefore you need to be kind to yourself and your body and allow it to rest and recover. I was very fortunate that my family could have my little boy the night I came home from hospital, this allowed me another night recovering and also allowed me and my partner to figure out the little things I may need help with and how we would do that when our son was back home. I used all the frida mom C-section pants and the support binder which has massively helped!

I also decided to get my little boy used to the idea that mummy couldn’t pick him up, lift him into his cot etc before baby arrived. I didn’t want him associating the new baby with mummy suddenly not being able to do these things and I found that massively helped us as my little boy was already used to mummy saying she couldn’t pick him up as her tummy was sore. I’m now 2 weeks post section and basically feeling back to my normal self! Good luck 🤍

I’m two months in, the first couple weeks were really tough and I felt a lot of guilt not being able to give my toddler as much attention, but I recovered quickly and was picking him up well before the 6 week mark. Top tips for recovery would be to get up and walking at least a tiny bit day 1, and get something for you at night like a bed rail or otherwise so you can use it to pull yourself up! The hardest part for me with recovery was night feeds because I had a shooting pain going from lying to sitting & vice versa those first weeks. Also if you have a partner even if they’re already amazing they will need to step it up a notch with toddler duty. My husband has done all of our 20 month old’s nursery dropoffs, nappy changes, and baths since baby sister came. I’m starting to do some of it now we’re getting in kind of a routine

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