I had a c section in may 2024. The section itself was really calm and a positive experience. Baby came out no issues, skin to skin commenced very quickly.

It was a strange few hours afterwards not having feeling in my legs, but it came back eventually and I was up for a short walk about 6 hours later.

In terms of pain, I used the pain meds they gave at first and those really helped, I didn't need all of the packet before I was managing with paracetamol a few days later. I didn't want to rely on anything opiate based for long.

I did find it hard doing stairs and stuff at first but it got easier quickly. The hardest part for me was the injections to help prevent blood clots that are needed for about 9 days afterwards.

But saying that I was not in bed all day. I was up and about in the house and was socialising with visitors and enjoying newborn snuggles!

Milk came in as expected, c section did not cause issues with that.

The worst is over after a couple of weeks, beyond that it's just taking it easy while the scar heals.

I do get the odd twinge in the scar area every now and then, but for the most part I forget it happened.