On Recovery

On recovery..
My C-section was surprisingly easy. I was barely in any pain (except when I laughed...or bent over to tie my shoes, which Josh helped me with most of the time.) I really don't feel like I was that "out of it" either, as I feel like I can remember most things from the hours following the surgery. The Morphine made me feel sick, and I did throw up a couple of times. Since Eden went to the newborn nursery for observation, and then from there was taken to the NICU, I  was thankful that the nurses wheeled me down to the NICU to see Eden for the first time outside of the operating room. I was up and walking around within 24 hours, and probably would have been sooner, had I not been hooked up to all sorts of machines. I started walking down to the NICU to visit Eden multiple times a day, as soon as I was able to.  My incision also healed perfectly and had no problems whatsoever. It wasn't until 3 days after the surgery, that I began to get a terrible headache. I have never felt anything like it. It was pounding in the back of the head, down into my neck and back. No medicine would even begin to dull the pain. The only thing that brought any relief was laying down, so I laid down often, and barely made it down to the NICU. I was miserable. I was given caffeine which is supposed to help a spinal headache, migraine medicine, and other painkillers. None of it worked. Finally, the headache slowly began to fade after coming home, and after a few days it was gone completely. I was just excited to begin adjusting to life with our precious little one.