Thumbs up or Thumbs Down Thursday...randomness

[Lucy]

Dec 8, 2016 19:23:53 GMT -5 littlelion said:

Dec 8, 2016 19:13:32 GMT -5 @kc295905 said:

Really? Why?! I think our hospital gives those out!

He said something about not enough research.

One of the nurses who tried very aggressively to help me breastfeed said I wouldn't suffocate baby with my boob (i kept trying to hold it off his face), that bf'ing had been done for ages without that danger. >:/ I wanted to snap back that women had breastfed before without someone trying to show them the "right way".

That's kind of funny, because our hospital gave us a Halo swaddle sleepsack. They used it on her while we were there, and sent it home with us after. I haven't used it at home yet because it feels gigantic on her since she hasn't grown into newborn sizes yet. Also, she really likes the Swaddle Pod things. I wasn't planning on buying those and just using muslin swaddle blankets, but then I had a miniature baby and swaddling in a huge muslin blanket is pointless. 

[Lucy]

requiressnacks, my incision did that with my last baby. They also said it was normal and happens sometimes. It drained like that for about a week... maybe a little less. I kept gauze over the leak.

[littlelion]

Lucy yeah, I have some halo sleepsacks I thought to try too. AND he also said not to swaddle. *hard eye roll* The nurses all swaddled baby while we were there plus once even double swaddled him.

[requiressnacks]

+1 for receiving a Halo sleepsack from the hospital. It was all they used in the NICU and I have one that says "NICU Graduate"

Anecdote....the Snacks babies love to be swaddled in their Halo sleep sacks.

[Lucy]

Dec 8, 2016 20:22:40 GMT -5 littlelion said:

Lucy yeah, I have some halo sleepsacks I thought to try too. AND he also said not to swaddle. *hard eye roll* The nurses all swaddled baby while we were there plus once even double swaddled him.

I have heard that swaddling can be bad for hips, but there are "hip healthy" swaddles. Personally, I never bothered since we ended up stopping the swaddling in a few months, and they spent enough time unswaddled during the day. 

[lbonga1]

We swaddled both babies so far. Our nurse in the hospital even showed us this crazy way to swaddle where she tucked the ends under the bassinet mattress and wrapped another one around the head. We used the burrito swaddle method at home...it was the most secure of what we tried, so they didn't break out of it right away.

[emilie]

+another for our hospital encouraging swaddling and sleep sacks. The childbirth and baby care classes we did both had specific info on swaddling and sleep sacks and they even gave everyone a muslin swaddle to take home.

[Winnifred]

lastnamewithheld - yes, same here! Dh and I were talking last night and decided that we would have given ANYTHING to have been in the hospital with a newborn around Christmastime over the last few years, so we really needed to just chill out about the situation. Still working on being grateful over here, not always easy!

I'm hoping you don't need to wait for your induction date! FX for progress all around!

[kaydee0402]

requiressnacks, I didn't have my c-section leak, but my sister did. Take care of it because it can become infected. Bacteria wound up getting inside my sister's and she had to have a wound vac (a little vacuum attached to the incision 24/7) and had to pack the incision with gauze everyday which was painful and disgusting.

Take it easy and follow your doctor's instructions!

[legalbeagle]

@cahistoryteacher This is what I asked for my parents for Christmas for just this purpose. Got good reviews in the WSJ: www.amazon.com/Polaroid-Mobile-Printer-Printing-Technology/dp/B00TE8XKIS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1481293945&sr=8-1&keywords=zink+printer

[emilie]

Dec 9, 2016 9:17:56 GMT -5 kaydee0402 said:

requiressnacks, I didn't have my c-section leak, but my sister did. Take care of it because it can become infected. Bacteria wound up getting inside my sister's and she had to have a wound vac (a little vacuum attached to the incision 24/7) and had to pack the incision with gauze everyday which was painful and disgusting.

Take it easy and follow your doctor's instructions!

requiressnacks kaydee0402 what kind of incision closure (and kaydee0402 for your sister too) were you working with? My OB says that while it depends on the situation, with my body type they usually do staples that they remove and replace with steri-strips 2-3 days after surgery. She said care at home just involves keeping the area clean (and in the shower just letting soapy water run over the area) and then after 2 weeks you have a post op appointment and by then the steri strips will have come off on their own some and they remove the rest of it. My doctor says the care is pretty minimal, but I also had a friend who had issues with her incision and had to have her H clean it and pack it with gauze. Do not want to have to have MH deal with something like that.

[kaydee0402]

emilie, I definitely didn't have staples, so just stitches I guess. They did put the steri strips on and I kept it clean as instructed. I'm really not sure what kind of incision closure my sister had, but we both delivered under the same hospital (different branches, but same hospital group) so I imagine her incision closure was similar.

I think my sister's problem was that she overdid it. She was at the aquarium a week after having her baby. I kept telling her to take it easy, it's not a race. I'm so serious when I say be kind to your body after a c-section. You are having MAJOR abdominal surgery. For real, take it easy. Don't be afraid to lock yourself in the house for a week, not see anybody and sleep when the baby sleeps. You owe nobody any explanations for why you're being a hermit.

And for God's sake, take the drugs they give you. Don't try to be a hero like I did (we have drug addictions in my not immediate family but among some cousins and whatnot, which makes me hesitant to take anything that's stronger than Tylenol) and think you can just power through. Sleep, take percoset, keep the area clean and dry and take it easy.

[emilie]

Dec 9, 2016 12:10:53 GMT -5 kaydee0402 said:

emilie, I definitely didn't have staples, so just stitches I guess. They did put the steri strips on and I kept it clean as instructed. I'm really not sure what kind of incision closure my sister had, but we both delivered under the same hospital (different branches, but same hospital group) so I imagine her incision closure was similar.

I think my sister's problem was that she overdid it. She was at the aquarium a week after having her baby. I kept telling her to take it easy, it's not a race. I'm so serious when I say be kind to your body after a c-section. You are having MAJOR abdominal surgery. For real, take it easy. Don't be afraid to lock yourself in the house for a week, not see anybody and sleep when the baby sleeps. You owe nobody any explanations for why you're being a hermit.

And for God's sake, take the drugs they give you. Don't try to be a hero like I did (we have drug addictions in my not immediate family but among some cousins and whatnot, which makes me hesitant to take anything that's stronger than Tylenol) and think you can just power through. Sleep, take percoset, keep the area clean and dry and take it easy.

Thank you for this. I am lucky that it will be the holidays and I will have my mom and some siblings around to help out along with H after surgery. I definitely won't try to go out if I don't feel like it! And I hear you on the drugs - my dad had addiction issues, and I am very wary about putting addictive substances into my body because of it. However, I've taken narcotics for oral surgery before and it wasn't problematic, so I'm just going to take what they tell me to take and try not to worry about it too much.

[lola]

requiressnacks, Late to the party, but this is the baby book we got from Amazon. We were looking for something simple. It's not quite as involved as some of the other ones, which is what I prefer. I can't commit to writing tons and tons, but I can fill in a few blanks.

www.amazon.com/Lucy-Darling-Little-Artist-Memory/dp/B014QE0NUC/ref=sr_1_2_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1481310091&sr=8-2&keywords=baby%27s+first+year

I think they also make a "boy" version that has animals or something.

[requiressnacks]

Dec 9, 2016 12:01:30 GMT -5 emilie said:

Dec 9, 2016 9:17:56 GMT -5 kaydee0402 said:

requiressnacks, I didn't have my c-section leak, but my sister did. Take care of it because it can become infected. Bacteria wound up getting inside my sister's and she had to have a wound vac (a little vacuum attached to the incision 24/7) and had to pack the incision with gauze everyday which was painful and disgusting.

Take it easy and follow your doctor's instructions!

requiressnacks kaydee0402 what kind of incision closure (and kaydee0402 for your sister too) were you working with? My OB says that while it depends on the situation, with my body type they usually do staples that they remove and replace with steri-strips 2-3 days after surgery. She said care at home just involves keeping the area clean (and in the shower just letting soapy water run over the area) and then after 2 weeks you have a post op appointment and by then the steri strips will have come off on their own some and they remove the rest of it. My doctor says the care is pretty minimal, but I also had a friend who had issues with her incision and had to have her H clean it and pack it with gauze. Do not want to have to have MH deal with something like that.

I didn't have staples, but otherwise this sounds about right. For whatever reason my incision opened a little, which was causing the leaking. MH just has to clean the open area (less than 1 cm) with hydrogen peroxide and put a small piece of gauze on it. For the most part the incision healing has been easy.

[littlelion]

requiressnacks, kaydee0402 emilie interesting to hear the various approaches to the csection. Guess how mine is closed? Glue! Same as last time with ds1.

[emilie]

Dec 9, 2016 14:37:01 GMT -5 littlelion said:

requiressnacks, kaydee0402 emilie interesting to hear the various approaches to the csection. Guess how mine is closed? Glue! Same as last time with ds1.

I asked my dr about the glue! She said she doesn't use it as a lot of patients are allergic but I know it's been mentioned by a lot of c sec moms.