Dear Laurie,
It may not have been the fastest pregnancy on the face of the earth for you (it never goes fast enough when you are the pregnant one) but it sure seemed fast to me.
You are on the home stretch. I have 3 children and I had 2 of them by c-section. I was supposed to have the third that way but she had other ideas and I went into labor before my surgery date and it was a rapid labor. By the time I got to the hospital, it was too late to do a c-section. If I had taken alittle more time in route, I would have probably been in the newspapers.
C-sections are not that hard but you will be having major abdominal surgery as well as the fact that your uterus will be involuting and going back to its normal small size. Also, unlike other abdominal surgeries, you have a tiny baby who wakes up in the middle of the night. Get help if you can so that all you have to deal with is feeding our little nephew. You have not said if you will be breast feeding. If you are not, have the hubby feed "junior" for the first week or so (during the night) so you can get a good, healing rest in. I breastfed but my hubby would get the baby and put the baby back to bed.
Eat nourishing and healing food - lots of protein. If you can't get help with the cooking and housework, try to get prepared this week by cooking alot of stew and freezing portions - things like that. Make sure all the laundry is done before you go and everything is ready for baby boy.
Make sure to buy extra sanitary pads. You will still have the vaginal bleeding after the birth. Always extra long with wings overnight are SUPERB. You get some in the hospital and some to bring home but its not enough and your hubby will just die if he has to get them. Plus that type of Always is really good.
Have your bag ready anyway because you could go into labor (as I know
).
Yippee for you. There's nothing better than a new baby to love.