question for C-section mommies….?
My baby was born 6 days ago via a cesarean and I’ve been home for 2 days using vicodin to control the pain. I’ve been taking them every 4 hours because I developed quite a fear of being unmedicated in the hospital. I have become immobilized to the point of tears when my meds lapsed so I learned to stay on top of it.
My point here is…. I’m really pissed because I’m breastfeeding and my doctor and the nurses in the hospital know this and I just googled “vicodin and breastfeeding” and this babycenter link http://www.babycenter.com/0_drug-safety-during-breastfeeding_8790.bc
says it’s potentially hazardous.
That sucks.
What do you all think?
The hospital know that you are going to be trying to breastfeed, so they give you the best pain relief they have with the least side-effects on your newborn. Yes, they will probably make the baby a little sleepy as well as you, but there is a reason you were given meds to take at home.
Take them for the two weeks or so that they have been prescribed for – there is absolutely no need to be in such severe pain that you are in tears!
I’ve had 3 sections now, all with slightly different depth of pain afterwards. After my 3rd, I was advised to increase my meds slightly when I got home, as I would be naturally more active than in the hospital. As it happened, I didn’t return home until 14 days after the section, but they still sent me home with sufficient pain relief for 2 weeks, just in case I needed it.
Having a section is major surgery. You are not expected to be pain-free without pain relief for some time yet. I can’t see in anything I’ve googled, that Vicodin has any anti-inflammatory element, so I assume they’ve given you something to reduce the internal inflammation at the wound site.
In the UK you are given Diclofenac and dihydrocodeine.
Do “stay on top of” the pain so that you are better able to take care of your baby until you have healed. There are 3 layers that have to knit back, the outer is the first to do so, the uterus and muscle wall take a little longer.
For the short time that you need to take them, there will be no long term problems for either of you as long as you are sensible.
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