Hello! This is Andrea Guzman and we're no longer doing Mommie2BeTime, we are doing mommy I am time. Today, I am going to talk to you about quick recovery for C-section. We're going to talk about psychological, physical and spiritual ways that you can take care of yourself, right after you get a C-section.
Well, this is what I did and it worked for me. Basically, right after you have a C- section, you're going to go through a world with emotions and I have the baby blues like the first week, it's not postpartum depression but I had more like I was down, and I was like kind of out of it and just kind of overwhelmed with having a baby all over me all the time. So what I did was basically, first of all psychologically, I called a lot of my girl friends that had C-section, asked them questions that how long do I have to take my Vicodin and my Advil and what do I need to do and what not and what not.
Any question that I didn't ask, have the doctor answered for me when I was getting discharged from the hospital. I called my girlfriends and just for support. And also as far as time with my husband went, I just basically told him, hey, you know what, I need a little bit more one-on-one time, so we kins of plan it like when the baby is sleeping like right now, we should be spending time together and talking about things. So those are two really important things that I did.
Physically, this is the number one thing. I think that women have like a lot of us suffer wrapped up into their bodies. Of course, it just kind of way it goes, so the quicker that you can start working on your body, the better. When you are in the hospital they are not going to let you get out of bed when you have a C-section for like twelve hours but as soon as you can get out because, it's going to be very painful and you're going to have to walk to the bathroom and come back but the sooner you get out of that, the sooner your recovery started to walk begins.
So when I came from the hospital, I started walking right away. Now it wasn't like running or sprinting or anything but I was slowly walking everyday. Now it's day twenty, baby is twenty days old. I am basically up to like walking three miles which I think has made the world a difference because one, I got to leave the house and hopefully you'll be able to do that too if your husband or your partner or maybe your mom can watch the baby while you get away and go to the gym. If you can't do that, get out your stroller okay and right when she goes down for a nap, put her in the stroller, we'll feed her first of course, put her in the stroller and push the stroller up a hill or down the walk or some thing, you need to get out of house. It's going to make you craziest thing in the house all day long and specially the first week because it just like overwhelmed.
The other thing that I will highly recommend is go to bed really early. I go to bed at 8 0'clock and I get up about 8 0'clock, so that gives about twelve hours to basically sleep and get woken up by the baby. That's better than going to bed at like, I don't know 10 and waking up at 6 because when you get 8 hours and you think about it, you are constantly woken every two, three hours to feed the baby anyway so the longer you sleep, the better.
Spiritually, basically, for me is I don't really had time the first week kind of like bonding with my baby because I was totally, everything was totally new and I was just trying to learn how to breast feed and change her diaper and you know, do all these things you need to do when you have a new born and so it was kind of hard for me to just really connect with their, expect that, that's going to be normal.
The second week you have little bit more time to just kind of look at her when she is sleeping and see how precious she is. And that really makes a difference because it shows all the work be put in the past 9 months.
So those are basically my major tips. I cannot stress enough about the fitness. I worked out all the way up until the day before I gave birth which really made a difference and I thought, oh, my God, I am having a C-section, all my workout it's going to go in vain but it didn't go in vain because I was able to go back to walking and not being totally tired and physically exhausted.
So you look at your fitness this way, okay, you are working all with your pregnancy, you're dealing with nausea, you're dealing with being tired, you're dealing with different hormone, shooting back and forth within your body. After dealing with that for 9 months, it's kind of like the same thing when you give birth, because you're still tired, because you're not getting any sleep, your hormones are still going crazy because you're breast feeding. But if you push through that, and just think of it like you did when you were pregnant, then you can do it. It's mind of our body.
So guys here is my twenty days stomach, let me show you, this is what we get going on. Pretty good, looking pretty good. I've got still a little bit of puce and again, because I am older, I think the elasticity in my stomach isn't as good so I've got a lot of this. But again, I am using the Palmers. I highly recommend again a lotion that you can use that have to get the elasticity back within your skin and what else.
That's pretty much it. I standby taking care of yourself first and your baby will be happy. The same thing I said, all the way through my pregnancy, it really makes a difference. Get up there, get some exercise and you'll lose a lot of weight breast feeding, don't kill yourself if you can't breast feed, some women can't and again taking your meals down to three meals a day versus like six meals a day and if you need a snack, yogurt, apple and granola bar, okay. Keep busy, get yourself a hobby to do while the baby is sleeping so that you don't go crazy and that's pretty much it. Alright, again take care of yourself, bye-bye.
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